P7

                                                       Response to the three articles

The article “Fowl Trouble” written by Christopher D. Cook was talking about the industry of chicken and its productions which was ruled by USDA to produce the larger type of chicken and its productions when the chicken was larger than before. And also, the workers in the American’s poultry plants were suffered the disease which was caused by the broiler chicken. Nowadays, depend on the demand of the chicken by people, the workers in the poultries should enhance the efficiency of processing chicken. Especially the worker who in charge of examining the carcasses, in order to finish the assignments fast, they did not care about the tools they used. So, they should fix the scissors and knives, “the workers often lacerate themselves or their neighbors when blades slip off the slimy carcasses.” (14). Therefore, the reason why people do not want to work in the poultry plants is the fact I mentioned above.

In Michael Pollan’s article, he mentioned Peter Singer’s article to correspond to the title“An Animal’s Place” which reflected that people need to respect the relationship with animals and people should eat animals to keep the ecological equilibrium. The author analyzed the circulate by using history about food to prove that “We'd probably eat less of it, too, but maybe when we did eat animals, we'd eat them with the consciousness, ceremony and respect they deserve.” (12)

The article “The introduction to Estabrook’s Tomatoland” talked about the tomatoes by different taste and the appearance in different places. The author did more researches to prove that the reason why tomatoes were not the same is the weather, altitude and soil can lead the tomatoes different. We should compare the appearance and taste about the tomatoes in different places in order to analyze its value and history.

The most interesting point is that we should respect the animals to keep the balance which can give us the benefits we do want.