The excerpt of Eric’s Schlosser’s “Fast Food Nation: Why Fries Taste Good” explains where the French fry came from and why it is so popular today. This popularity comes from a lucky farmer in the 1920s, John Richard Simplot, who became a potato/ fry manufacturing machine by making good deals with the people and companies he knew. The popularity of the frozen fry happened during J.R’s reign of the farm and potato empire.
The article, “The Pleasures of Eating” by Wendell Berry talks about what people everywhere, not only in the city, can do to make their lives and food healthier and to support American farms. Farms are becoming a thing of the past in a bad way; no longer do people care where their food comes from, all they want is something quick and easy. One’s health is a major concern when it comes to food, yet people do not make the effort insuring that their food is fresh, clean and came from good healthy animals or soil. It’s for people to take a part in knowing where their food is coming from and what kind of food they are putting in their bodies. America needs to focus more on quality than quantity.
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