Fruits and vegetables are two foods that are ate every day all around the world. They are a source of good nutrition and we are recommended to eat a variety of fruits and vegetables to stay healthy. As the world’s demand for fruits and vegetables increases, there is a need to find new technologies that allow the growth of larger fruits and vegetables as well as higher yields. With this new technology, however, come the troubles of more bacteria and food borne illnesses. There has been a rise of these illnesses, and in turn recalls on vegetables and fruits all over the world. Historically, fruits and vegetables were not eaten, as they were thought to be unhealthy and were only used as medical supplements and there was no nutritional value seen in them. There are records where people were recommended to not eat fruits and vegetables, a vast contradiction to today’s thoughts on produce. This essay will look at the movement from historically being told to not eat produce, to today’s issues with food borne illnesses and whether the increased demand for produce has caused this influx in food recalls in produce from contamination. Some fruits and vegetables were domesticated as early as the 15th century, and some were only used as ornaments, and some had biblical or religious meaning behind them. Looking back at Ancient Greece, grapes were used as a symbol of fertility, and also virginity. The waxy later on the grapes was said to symbolize a woman’s virginity, and the wax was easy to remove so the grapes had to be handled carefully and protected, as a woman should protect her virginity . In the late Tudor period of England fruits were not eaten on a daily basis, but as medicine. Fruits were used to balance the hot and cold properties of... ... middle of paper ... ...Olivas, G. I. and G. V. Barbosa-Cánovas. "Edible Coatings for Fresh-Cut Fruits." Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition 45, no. 7-8 (December 2005): 657-670. Parker, Jason S., Robyn S. Wilson, Jeffrey T. LeJeune, Louie Rivers, and Douglas Doohan. “An Expert Guide to Understanding Grower Decisions Related to Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Contamination Prevention and Control.” Food Control 26, (2012): 107-116. Sandhya, . "Modified Atmosphere Packaging of Fresh Produce: Current Status and Future Needs." LWT - Food Science and Technology 43, no. 3 (2010): 381-392. Wright, Angus. "Rethinking the Circle of Poison." Latin American Perspectives 13, no. 4 (1986): 26-59. Zeven, A. C. and W. A. Brandenburg. "Use of Paintings from the 16th to 19th Centuries to Study the History of Domesticated Plants." Economic Botany 40, no. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1986): 397-408.
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Josef was born on March 19, 1888 in Bottrop, Germany. At the age of 17 he became an elementary school teacher. By 25 he studied in Berlin to expand his skills and become a certified art teacher. Through the years he continued to build his education attending several art academies; The School of Arts and Crafts, Munich Academy, and Franz von Stuck. In 1922 he enrolled to Bauhaus, a teaching institution in Weimar, Germany. Here at Bauhaus is where his achievements began and where he met his lifetime partner, Anni. In 1925 he was the first student invited to join the faculty staff and pronounced “Jungmeister” or “Young Master”. Josef taught various art classes and developed his own techniques as a figurative artist studying printmaking, stain glass, furniture as well as writi...
In our fast pace society, we base everything on time and money. This need to save money and time has transformed the way we see food and purchase food. Food is an essential part of all cultures. It plays a role in every person’s life. The population has the power to choose what we eat and how the food industry is shaped. There are many important questions that we need to ask ourselves in order to keep the food industry in check. These questions are: How do we know our food is safe? What should we eat? How should food be distributed? What is good food? These are simple yet difficult questions.
Medieval medicine was made from herbs, spices, and resins. It was applied in drinks, pills, rubs, baths, washes, ointments, purges, and poultices. Head pains were treated with sweet-smelling herbs. Mixtures of henbane and hemlock were applied to aching joints. Coriander was used to reduce fever. Stomach pains were treated with wormwood, mint, and balm. Lung illnesses were given medical treatment of a medicine which was made up of liquorice and comfrey. Horehound cough syrups and drinks were used for head-colds, cough, and chest congestion. Wounds were cleaned with vinegar as it was bel...
Shaun Whitman addresses concerns regarding the chemicals used on regular produce by providing a solution to the problem and stating how the government comes into play. One solution that the article presents is that people can wash the produce thoroughly. For example, Paragraph 5 states, “Thoroughly washing fruits and vegetables under running water removes dirt, chemicals, and bacteria. You can also peel the skins off fruits and vegetables.” This delineates that people are able to address the concern of having chemicals on the produce by simply washing the produce or peeling its skin off. This is an example of the author giving a solution to this concern. In addition to giving a solution, the author also writes about how the government is checking
Meatpacking has become the most dangerous job in America. Unlike poultry plants, in which almost all tasks are performed by machines, most of the work in a slaughterhouse is done by hand. Hazards of the job include injuries from the various machines and knives, strain to the body from poor working conditions, and even methamphetamine use in order to keep up with the production line. Women face the added threat of sexual harassment. This chapter opens with an anecdote about the largest recall of food in the nation’s history. In 1997 approximately 35 million pounds of ground beef was recalled by Hudson Foods because a strain of E Coli was found in the food. However, by the time the beef was recalled, 25 million pounds had already been eaten. Schlosser notes that the nature of food poisoning is changing. Prior to the rise of large meatpacking plants, people would become ill from bad food in small, localized arenas. Now, because meat is distributed all over the nation, an outbreak of food poisoning in one town may indicate nation-wide epidemic. Every day in the United States, 200, 000 people are sickened by a food borne
On January 4, 2011 President Obama signed into law The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). This law has shed new light on the safety and security of our food supply. The last update to the food safety laws in the United States was in 1938. The food safety modernization act pays special attention at trying to modernize the food safety policies in the United States in hopes to prevent problems and concerns before they happen. As we all know, most of our food comes from overseas or sometimes from your neighboring state. The food products travel by car, truck, airplane, boat, or even train. We are all very happy to be receiving our bananas from Costa Rica and all of our other fresh fruits and vegetables that are imported into the United States, but we never stop to think about what pathogens are contaminating our produce and other foods on the way over and if they are safe for us to eat. In an article by Neal Fortin, he states that the law also gives the FDA new standards to hold imported foods to the domestic food standards and it also encourages the FDA to establish and develo...
Michael Pollan discusses two categories of food: one is real food (the kind our great-grandmother would recognize), while the other is “edible food-like substances”. The category that needs defending according to Pollan is the real food. This category of food is minimally processed, fresh (will eventually rot), and includes mostly things that are taken straight from the source (the ground, tree, etc.). When one walks into a store, they should look for and pick the foods that are more “quiet”such as fresh produce than the ones that have more labels that say they are more healthy, or better for you.
Alice Waters, in her 2007 article “Farmer Bill Should Focus on Healthful Foods”, instead of focusing on the farming techniques themselves, makes a more pointed inspection over the products and produce
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Food safety is an increasingly important public health issue. Governments all over the world are intensifying their efforts to improve food safety. Food borne illnesses are diseases, usually either infectious or toxic in nature, caused by agents that enter the body through the ingestion of food. “In industrialized countries, the percentage of people suffering from food borne diseases each year has been reported to be up to 30%. In the United States of America, for example, around 76 million cases of food borne diseases, resulting in 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths, are estimated to occur each year.” (Geneva 2)