Extra Credit -THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA

Chapter 2 - Michael Pollen the author of The Omniviores Deliemma talked about how he investigated first hand how the corn feilds were run. He met with a farmer named Geore Naylor who worked as a corn husker. One of Pollans many observations was that his motions were almost hypnotic, plowing the corn and gathering it up day in and day out. Pollan also notice the quality of the corn which he described to be growing in very fertilized soil. In the midwest where the weather is not always so great pesticides and other unatural procducts are used to speed up the process. The chemicals used act as the sun and give off the false impression that they are grown the "natural" way According to Pollan, this is why there is hardly any "ecological" process of farming crops these days-it takes too long for them to be produced and the crops aren't sold and become wasted food. Pollan also talks about the economic toll it takes on the farmers who are in charge of growing the crops. An example would be if the price of vegetables drop, corn for instance, used to be $3 and now its $2 therefore the farmers are making less money than they produce the price of the food. There is major competition between farmers in areas that are mainly farmland. The farmers see who can get most of the profit and sell the most amount corn. Farming is hard work and a slow process if done the right way.