Peer Response: Anna's Blog

"Eat food, not too much. Mostly plants." Ann's view post about Pollan's In Defense of Food is about the process of making healthy decisions in your choice of food. Anna talks a lot about the importance of food choice in life and defends many claims from Pollan. She summarizes why people should pay attention to their food because it is a constant determinant of health and daily living in the lives of people. She talks about the daily nutritional guidelines that have been passed on generation to generation and how this has lead to poor decision in making in the eyes of people. Anna states that if consumers were willing to pay more for better and well-grown food, but just purchase less then we would definitely benefit and the environment, but in my opinion this is not always the case. To afford food for some families is already a struggle, and now to afford food of a higher quality, but lesser quantity would just hurt them more. According to the U.S Census Bureau more than 13 million families are below the poverty line, I'm all for becoming a healthier nation and living healthy, but it's difficult to do this when we can't even help feed those who struggle to survive. People could possibly look at us as a nation that is healthy, but then when they see all those who struggle in our country the could consider us people who are very class dominated and focus more on helping the upper-class than caring for everyone as a whole.

http://hungerreport.org/2009/chapters/us-poverty/62-current-reform

Here are some facts that help support my claims somewhat to as why we need to focus on helping everyone become healthier, who struggle to meet the poverty line.