Annotated Bibliography


This is a collaborated bibliography compiled by my group members and myself.
-Chelsea Earnst, Nicole Flesch, Lindsey Finklestein

Berry, Wendell. "The Pleasures of Eating." Center for Ecoliteracy. N.p., 1990. Web. 27 Mar 2011. <http://www.ecoliteracy.org/essays/pleasures-eating>.

The Pleasures of Eating by Wendall Berry is an article about the mind warping power of the food industry and its ability to hypnotize people from the truth inside their healthy advertising labels. The food industry does not care about the health of the people and the cleanest, healthiest, and friendliest ways to manufacture their products. The main thing that the Food Industry cares about is money. Vegetables and Fruits are injected with chemicals to make them grow faster. Animals are being injected with hormones and chemicals to make them grow faster and fatter and treated in the most inhumane ways.  The Food Industry will do whatever they have to in order make the most money, regardless of the health effects it has on people. Berry believes one of the main thing that contributes to the lack of concern from the people is lack of time.  People are always in a hurry and don’t have much time to carefully look into what they are eating, to grow their own food, and to go to a farmers market and pick out fresh grass fed chemical free foods. The healthier the food is the more expensive it will be. Berry gives a list of seven things one can do to lead a healthier lifestyle in which one can only benefit from. It doesn’t take much to learn how to eat “true healthy foods” but the first step is to actually care what you are putting into your body. 

Brown, Cynthia Stokes. Like It Was: a Complete Guide to Writing Oral History. New York: Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 1988. Print

Before reading the chapter "Conducting the Interview" in Like it Was, I never realized how many different aspects went into having an interview with somebody. There are specific things to prepare yourself for before, during, and after the interview that will benefit how your interview turns out in the end. For instance there are specific types of interviews in which you need to choose specifically who to interview, such as if you wanted to write about a culture that is dyeing out, you could conduct a "how to" interview on the specifics of their culture. Two ways to prepare you for an interview is to first have a specific set of questions planned out before the interview begins. This allows for you to have a better understanding of what you are going to ask the person and will give you a general idea about where the interview could head towards in conversation. The next preparation method would be actually reading the questions aloud to a friend or someone who will listen. This allows you to be confident in your interview and shows that you know and understand what you are talking about. When reading the sections about the different tips you can think about when conducting and interview there were many different points that I thought were very important for a person to take into consideration when interviewing. One for them being from the section labeled "Setting Up". I never thought about this until reading this article but you need to make sure that while during your interview you are in an area far from distractions. Distractions can take away from the interview causing you to lose valuable information and focus on what is being discussed. You need to try to find a quite, nice location comfortable for the both of you. The last section of this chapter is what I found the most interesting; even though it wasn't very long I thought it was a great way to brainstorm questions for an interview. This section was labled,"Looking at Old Photographs". By looking at old photographs of the event or time in history helps you pose questions about what was going on at that point in time. You can figure things out about the economics, fashion, and setting which can all be turned into types of questions you can ask the person being interviews. 

Duffield, D. (2011, April 6). Duffield's Farm Market Interview. (T. Martinelli, C. Earnst, & N. Flesch, Interviewers)

During this interview we talked to Debbie Duffield who is one of the owners of Duffield's Farm Market. She told us about the nutrition of their produce, and how they partner with schools to educate children about being healthier. The produce they sell is hand picked every day so they do not use the preservatives that industrialized food chains use.  As for the school trips, they had to revamp them a few years ago because the schools required the trips to be educational. One of the things they do for third grade is that they go into the schools and teach a lesson about planting seeds. They they bring the seeds back to the farm, plant them, and then when they are grown the students come back and pick the squash that has grown. That is what led to the lesson plans that they have on their website. During our interview, we found out that the Washington Twp. school district is beginning to incorporate into their curriculum programs to educate the students about better nutrition.   

Fontaine, Sheryl, and Susan Hunter. "Collaborative Writing in Compostition Studies ." (2006): n. pag. Web. 5 Apr 2011. <http://www.sabatinomangini.com/uploads/4/5/9/6/4596832/collaborative_writing_--_fontaine_and_hunter.pdf>.  

Collaborative Writing in Composition Studies by Fontaine and Hunter discusses the benefits of branching out from writing as simply a solitary activity. They first compare collaborative writing to conversations in a parlor. In these situations, you must listen for the conversations main point after coming in late, say your peace, and leave, but conversation continues without you, just as it began without you. This is parallel to how thinking is changed by the language contexts you enter and how our perspectives influence them (4). Our knowledge is always "under construction," as it is constantly being changed by the ideas that they encounter (8-9). Philosopher Richard Rorty describes this process as social construction (9). According to another philosopher, Mikhail Bakhtin, all of our language is in constant interaction and always has the potential to influence. As a result of this, everything we say is partially ours and partially someone else's (10). 
Lunsford and Ede call traditional group projects where students break up the work "hierarchical" as they are each working towards a seperate goal (18). They consider this cooperative, rather than collaborative (19). They believe that holding onto the writer-alone image can only hold people back. We should really be striving for a writer-in-the- world image (21). Writers can scaffold and compliment each other through their collaborating. Though it is no longer an individual voice, they believe true collaboration makes it so that "when the product is so well integrated that it seems to be the creation of one mind" which is the ultimate goal (24). 

Food Inc. Dir. Robert Kenner. Perf. Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser. 2009. DVD.   

 Food Inc is a movie that goes into the world of the process of making the food that we eat in America. The movie confronts issues that us as American's don't normally take into consideration things such as; animal cruelty, disease in our food and the unhealthy eating styles of our country. We learn that McDonalds of all places is the leading purchaser of ground beef and chicken in the United States. The methods that the farmers are using to raise these animals are not natural or humane; they are being fed food and chemicals that make them grow and a rapid pace in order to speed up the production and manufacturing of their food. Much of what was talked about in Food Inc was extremely controversial in the farmer world because the big companies that buy out the farmers do not want them talking about what they are doing to the food they produce because they know it is not the proper way to go about raising crops and animals. Another issue that was touched upon was brought about by a woman who lost her son due to disease in one of his cheeseburgers. She brings up issues that are within our government in the way they go about looking out for our safety when it comes to labeling food and making sure that it is okay for us to eat. Overall this movie discus’s issues that many of us in America are in the dark about and makes you aware of what you are putting in your mouth when you are eatting.

Pollan, Michael. "The Omnivore's Dilemna." Penguin Press (2006): 1-21. Web. 5 Apr 2011. <http://www.sabatinomangini.com/uploads/4/5/9/6/4596832/the_omnivores_dilemma_--_michael_pollan.pdf>.
 
The Omnivore's Dilemna by Michael Pollan addresses the question "what should we eat for dinner?" (3). He says this simple question has evolved to be so much more as American's diets have rapidly changed over the years. We rely on our senses, memory, and culture in deciding what food is best for us to consume. We have so many choices that it actually becomes a bigger ordeal for consumers. We are sustained by three food chains: the industrial, the organic, and the hunter-gatherer (6). Between all three is the tension between the logic of nature and the logic of the human industry. Though this is nothing new, it represents our ties to the natural world (8). 
Chapter Two discussed the Naylor farm in 1919. Farmers like him were the most productive humans to ever work, making enough food to feed 129 Americans (10). However, despite this, the farm is now barely making enough to sustain the family. Throughout the years, the dynamics of the area changed. The land became fenced in, and the addition of cheap corn made it profitable to feed cattle with feedlots instead of grass and to raise chicken in factories rather than farms. Corn became the new and only crop to plant to cover all expenses (12). Corn eventually pushed the animals and people off the land, as less labor was necessary. However, it was the discovery of synthetic nitrogen that changed everything in the food system and the way life itself is conducted (14). It has been speculated the Haber- Boesh process for fixing nitrogen is the most important invention of the twentieth-century. He even says two of every five humans on Earth would not be alive without it (14). With this invention and the addition of fossil fuels, corn is being produced economically (16). Influenced by Earl Butz, the American government began subsidizing how many bushels of corn a farmer could grow (19). However, in order to grow cheap corn, the land is degraded, the water is polluted, and the federal treasury is depleting to subsidize the corn. Though the checks go to the farmers, the treasury is really subsidizing the farmers (20). Humans are in between going broke from producing such corn and consuming it as quickly as possible (21).

Pollan, M., & Kenner, R. (2009, June 12). The Truth About Food, Inc. (CBSNewsOnline, Interviewer)

In this video, the producer and director of Food Inc. Robert Kenner, and the author of Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan, get together for an interview for CBSNewsOnline. They discuss how "Our food has been fundamentally transformed," (Kenner). The nutritional value of our produce in a supermarket has been diminished due to the goal of making food as cheap and abundant as possible. Pollan discusses the historical aspects of how we have gotten to this point, where it started, and how fast food is driving our nation. Due to this, we have an issue with obesity and malnutrition in our nation. The workers and animals are "brutalized," which in turn is adding additional moral "costs" that we are not aware of (Pollan). Kenner goes on to discuss the hardships he faced trying to get these food organizations on camera. There is a lot of information that the corporations are trying to keep from us. Pollan discusses how we are subsidizing the wrong foods. We are making all of the unhealthy things cheaper rather than the healthy which is affecting our society. To sum things up, they both discuss how we are on the verge of a national movement. Ominvore's Dilemma and Food Inc. are meant to be a jump start to this movement.

Qualley, D. (1997). Turns of thought: Teaching composition as reflexive inquiry (T. Newkirk, Ed., pp. 1-30).Retrieved fromhttp://www.sabatinomangini.com /uploads/4/5/9/6 /4596832/ turns_ of_thought_donna_qualley.pdf

Turns of Thought by Donna Qualley is a book about how learners discover themselves as writers using different approaches. She talks about her experiences with writing and whom she learned different methods from based on her observations and different approaches. Most schools and teachers try to give their students a certain formula to writing to fit the system when in reality there is “no need for consistency”.  It is helpful to look at teaching writing and writing itself as a way of getting in touch with the world and how to make sense of it. This fits in the role of one of the most effective writing approaches called reflexive inquiry. “Reflexivity is a way of discovering and examining one’s own thoughts through a response triggered by another idea, person, culture, or text”. It is a way of connecting to your internal thought process and being able to grow, adapt, and see things through a different pair of eyes. The act of reflexivity also means being able to make sense of the multiple responses that travel down your stream of thought.  By being open to learning from other people’s ideas, cultures, lives, and history, it is a gateway for one to learn about them and gain new insight and understanding. It is important to not be afraid to “unlearn”. In fact, unlearning is one of the most successful keys to revision. The best way to learn is when the learner is thrown off balance and outside of their comfort zone.

Schlosser, Eric. “Introduction.” Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Writing, Research, and Technology. Web. 1 April 2011

In the Introduction of Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser informs his readers of the rapid productions of Fast Food restaurants and how they are slowly dominating the world in which we live in. Using a series of statistics Schlossar shows us the shift and growth of the fast food industry compared to that of a few centuries ago. The main example eh explores is McDonalds. Using this example he explores how it has become more than just a fast food chain but a part of life that stands out more than any historical event, symbol, or figure in the United States. Using supportive evidence Schlosser informs us makes his audience aware of how powerful our fast food nation has become consuming most of people’s money more than any other industry in the nation. We are living our lives under a now historical figure “Ronald McDonald” and other fast food chains, a dangerous place of underpaid workers, chemical and hormone produced meat, and packaged and processed foods that are slowly destroying human beings. Schlossar wraps his introduction up with a familiar but true statement: “You are what you eat”.

Schneider, Stephen. "Good, Clean, Fair: The Rhetoric of the Slow Food Movement." College English 70.4 (2008): 384-402.Writing, Research, and Technology. Web. 1 Apr 2011.

 
 Good,Clean,Fair: The rhetoric of slow food movement by Stephen Schnider is an article about the what the slow food movement is, it’s history, and what it’s main purposes and goals are. This program is used to educate society about what they are eating and the importance of eating “good, clean, and fair food”. Carlo Petrini, the founder of the Slow Food Movement, identifies that food is more than just an object. It is “happiness, identity, culture, pleasure, nutrition, local economy, and survival”. Because of the fast pace of modern society, and the demanding time that work entails, most people use the excuse of not having “time” to cook and focus on what they are eating. It is about being able to understand and identify what good, clean, food is and learning how to take a step back from the constant lightening speed of life, and slow down. The faster the pace of life picks up the more robotic people and systems become gaining control of everything in sight. People can make a difference and have the ability to stand up in order to save their health. Both Petrini and Schnieder want the people to be aware of the mind warping power of the rapid growth of industrializion and globalization and the more we conform to and go along with it, the more power and health destruction is too come. Their main goal is to educate people about what they are eating in every possible way they can in as many different institutions as possible.

YouTube - Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Episode 1 Part 1." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Mar.-Apr. 2010. Web. 08 Apr. 2011. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7eaHytpJWQ>.

Jamie's goal to get into schools across the US and try to change the food that we are feeding our children. Huntington, West Virginia is the town that he focused on being that it is known to be the unhealthiest town in the entire world. His goal was to show the town healthy options instead of eating processed, broken down food. 
    Throughout the first two episodes Jamie came encountered with many struggles trying to achieve this goal. He had many people against what he was trying to do and achieve for this town. When he went into the towns elementary school he was baffled by what he saw being served to the children. Everything that was being put out for them was process or had loads of unhealthy preservatives in it. He decided to conduct a test and make a fresh cooked meal from healthy non processed foods and give the children a choice to choose which meal they would like. The turnout was shocking to Jamie, almost every child chose the processed food over the home cooked meal. This disappointment just gave him more incentive to make a change in this school and was determined to get these children to enjoy healthy food.