Wendell Berry’s called Bringing it to the table on Farming and Food is a short collection of essays mainly written from the 1970s through 1990s. The first essay in the book is called Nature as Measure which was written in 1989. He writes about how in the 1940s a farmer could take pleasure at looking at his farm. He says America was once a place where it was known as the place where someone driving through it would like it but now it has become a depressing experience to drive through. A few small
find out what happens to our food in the process of it moving from the source of all life on earth, the sun, to our plates. One chapter that caught my eye in particular is when he purchases and follows a steer through the process of growing up on a factory farm. In the maturity of the soon to be steak or hamburger meat Pollen describes the surroundings as such: “Cattle pens stretch to the horizon; each one home to 150 animals standing dully or lying around in a grayish mud that it eventually dawns on
by Basil Davidson, it explained the time when African continent had old trading partners with European countries and how Europe betrayed and invaded Africa in the 1880s. Because they wanted new resources and raw materials for their industries, factories, and benefits for their business, seven European countries like Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, and Italy invaded and conquered the black continent. In 1884, Europeans first organized the Berlin Conference to divide African countries