SLCC English 1010



Josh WeightMichelle SzetelaEnglish 1010Annotated bibliography final draftAnderson, David A. "Utopia Isn't So Bad." Humanist Vol. 68, No. 5. Sep./Oct. 2008: 20-23. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 26 Mar. 2013.Disneyworld’s theme park EPCOT has always been about progress and human development. Anderson has taken a closer look at some of the ideas presented in this park to help make communities stronger. The first thing that he looks at is that just because somebody is going green to help the environment, it doesn’t mean that you can’t use the latest technology or gadgets. Using your surroundings, such as rain water for your shower, can help the environment and cut the cost of your power bill. The interesting point of this article is facing the problem of food supply. Instead of mass use of pesticides to help food grow bigger there are many community gardens. Everyone is tasked with taking care of one section of the garden to grow but as a reward get access to all of the produce in the garden. Disney claims the reason for this is because self sufficiency is the best long term solution. While the article is has a very ideological view on the world’s problems the idea of the benefits that come from locally grown organic foods is great for my article. This will help with the argument that organic food has great benefits that come from planting them.Block, John R. "A Reality Check for Organic Food Dreamers." Wall Street Journal. 24 Dec. 2012: A.11. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 25 Mar. 2013.This is a short but interesting article that points out the differences in organically and conventionally grown foods. Block tells us of his past of growing up on a farm and his time as the secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture to build up some credit to his claims. He then talks about the benefits of having safe and healthy choices in our food but at the risk of having food shortages and higher prices for them. While it is not a great article because of the lack of almost any statistics in it, it does make you think about the bigger picture of food. Organic food might make you feel better but is it worth having if there isn’t enough food to go around? This article probably won’t make it into my paper but is still a good read.Chang, Kenneth. "Stanford Scientists Cast Doubt on Advantages of Organic Meat..." New York Times. 4 Sep. 2012: A.20. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 27 Mar. 2013.The article describes a study done at Stanford University that compares organic food to conventional food with a heavy focus on strawberries. One of the only main benefits of organic food has been the higher levels of phosphorus in them. Since most foods already have amounts of phosphorus in them anyway though, this isn’t seen as a great advantage for organic food. It was noted however that organic food was far less likely to be contaminated by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.The researchers at Stanford wanted to be as unbiased as they could during this study. "The Stanford researchers said that by providing an objective review of the current science of organic foods, their goal was to allow people to make informed choices". (15) When researchers tested strawberries they were hoping to find higher levels of vitamins inside of organic ones. They concluded that they were on average no more or less nutritious than conventional strawberries. This is a valuable article for my paper as it specifically focuses on one produce and the difference in organic food verses conventional food.Crumb, Michael J. "Organic Advocates Voice Concern for 'Natural' Food." Des Moines Register. 7 Mar. 2011: n.p. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 25 Mar. 2013.Crumb talks about a group that criticizes a cereal company that promotes an organic cereal with almost traces of organic materials in it. The group also files a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission saying that this is a scam to attract customers into buying their cereal thinking that it is considered organic. After talking about some of the basic requirements that a product needs to be considered organic, he talks for some length of other companies also try to pass off conventionally grown food as organic.This is an amazing article. While I’m not sure if the debate of passing off conventionally grown food as organic will be put into my paper I know for sure I will be talking about the requirements that organic food have to have to be considered organic. Ermann Russell, Natalie. "'Organic' Leaves Farmers with a Hard Row to Hoe." USA TODAY. 21 Nov. 2011: D.7. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 25 Mar. 2013.Ermann talks about how organic food is affecting smaller scaled farms. To be considered to have an organic farm, a farmer has to fill out numerous amounts of paperwork, wait for a predetermined period of time and pay a fee. Most farmers that Ermann talked to are not willing to do that even though their method of farming usually meets or, in some cases, exceeds the government requirements. Instead they have chosen to allow consumers to come to their farm to meet, watch, and ask questions about their farming procedures. This article is decent in length to cover the topic discussed but doesn’t delve too deeply into the topic of my paper. However there are several quotes that provide a farmers point of view on organic foods.Kaplan, Karen. "Organic Strawberries Are Superior--In Some Ways--Researchers Say." Los Angeles Times. 2 Sep. 2010: AA.4. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 26 Mar. 2013.With an article that focuses on the health benefits of organic strawberries grown in California, Kaplan analyzes many of the major factors that can affect the differences in organically grown food. A study compared 13 neighboring farms in southern California that focused on the difference between the soil, chemicals and amount of care that happened on each farm. The researchers concluded that the organically grown strawberries were more nutritious than conventionally grown strawberries but were far smaller. A decent article that shows that organic food can be healthier than conventionally grown food but at the cost of size. While it might not be directly quoted for my paper it does show more support by focusing on strawberries.Lupien, John R. "Food Quality and Safety: Traceability and Labeling." Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. Vol. 45 No. 2 2005: 119-123. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 25 Mar. 2013.This article focuses on the European food market. Lupien discusses the growth, changes and food laws that have come to pass of the last 125 years. This touches on every topic from food supply to food safety and labeling to fraud. Food safety has been one of Europe’s main problems for authorities because of the amount of chemicals that have been appearing in produce of the last couple of decades. Many foods claim to be organically grown but when tested contain large amounts of pesticides and food dyes. Sicknesses and a few cases of diseases have resulted from these mislabeling and continue to pop up because of the difficulty in tracking and tracing produce. Not only are people being affected by this but large percentages of farms have also been affected by mislabeling. Most of this article doesn’t really focus on the advantages or disadvantages of organic food but what it does show is that organic food is very hard to meet the demands of the public. Petersen, Andrea. "Report Supports Organic Produce, but Not Milk." Wall Street Journal. 23 Oct. 2012: D.4. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 25 Mar. 2013.Petersen talks about in this article the effects of organic milk and meat for children. Several studies done in the last few years have reviled new evidence that children drinking organic milk show little to no signs of being any healthier than those who don’t despite the fear of pesticides harming developing immune systems. However to is also been shown that girls who eat more red meat have a higher chance of developing breast cancer. This article is rather short and I will probable use little of it in my research paper. It has a few good quotes.Priesnitz, Wendy. "What Are They Doing to Our Food?" Natural Life Magazine. May/June 2012: 16-17. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 25 Mar. 2013.This article discusses the negative effects that food has on the human body and economy with conventionally grown food. Many of the health risks include diabetes, obesity and a higher chance of cancer. Recently, conventionally grown food has had a higher rate of recall than it has in the past 20 years. Priesnitz also discusses the effect of pesticides in food leading to more contaminated food outbreaks.Also discussed are some of the ingredients that are put into foods such as food dye and high fructose corn syrup. At the end of the article Priesnitz presents a couple of ideas to reduce the risk of becoming sick from conventionally grown foods. Much like the article "Has 'Organic' Been Oversized?" this article should only be used to show the negative effects of conventionally grown food. I will probably not quote this paper too often.Strom, Stephanie. "Has 'Organic' Been Oversized?" New York Times. 8 July 2012: BU.1. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 27 Mar. 2013.Storm talks about organic food being overhyped in this article. With little to no scientific evidence that organic food is better than conventionally grown food all you are really doing is spending more for a label. She also talks about how bigger companies seem to be losing more and more interest in making sure that food is grown organically and more interested in lining their pockets. This is a decent article where the author explains that organic food companies are just out to get your money instead of providing healthy food.I probably will not be using this article for my paper but could see how it could be helpful if I need to cast a negative light on the subject if needed.Weise, Elizabeth. "Is Organic Always Best?" USA TODAY. 21 Dec. 2010: D.1. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 27 Mar. 2013.The author of this article starts by talking about the differences in cost when buying organic food compared to conventionally grown. Weise compares the difference between the cost and value of organic milk and meat and talks about why some prefer one to the other. While she also concludes that the health differences between the two foods is so little it almost doesn’t exist, the amount of money that you will pay for organic food will only be increasing the coming years. She concludes her paper by listing some of the requirements needed for food to be considered organic. This will be great as it is one of the few articles that I’ve found that talks more about the cost of organic food verses the health factors of organic food.Zwahlen, Cyndia. "Pet Stores See Healthy Sales of Organic Food." Los Angeles Times. 7 Feb. 2011: A.12. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 25 Mar. 2013.In this article, Zwahlen discusses the health benefits and cost of organic food for pets. At the time of this publication only smaller pet food companies are producing organic pet food in an attempt to raise sells compared to big business companies. As with most research done on human organic food, veterinarians are only able to produce small health benefits for organic pet food. The cost for organic pet food is much more expensive than traditionally prepared food. "organic pet food--which costs as much as 30% more than non-organic…" (11) While organic pet food did see a decrease in sells with the start of the recession, the market has grown over recent years and is predicted to continue growing.While it doesn’t cover much of the health benefits of organic food it does delve very deeply into the cost. Seeing the patterns of cost and little health benefits between human and pet food I’ll definitely use this article a few times for my paper. ................
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