Entry 3: Authors Persona, Tone, & Intended Audience

"You are what you eat is a truism hard to argue with, and yet it is, as a visit to a feedlot suggests, incomplete, for you are what you eat eats, too. And what we are, or have to become, is not just meat but number 2 corn and oil." Pg. 84

I found this quote while I was reading through where I had stopped last time, and as soon as I finished the first part of the page I was on, I suddenly went back to read this quote again. When I read it to myself again I felt that it summarized half of what the message of the book might have been trying to reveal all along. I know that I have a long way to go in order to finish the whole book, but this quote made me see many of the different aspects that this book had to offer. One of them was identifying yourself with what you eat and how it will affect you on the outside as well as in the inside. It sounds really weird but makes a lot of sense when Michael Pollan puts it out in a certain way that you can actually relate to, and as well as demonstrating the different foods that vary with your looks. This quote mainly focused on the fact that cows weren’t meant to be stuffed with corn and oil to be healthy and strong. The reasons why they started being feed corn and oil was because farmers were looking to make their cows grow faster to an extent that they didn’t care how they managed to treat the cows, they only pleased the demand of larger produce markets that demanded meat and other produce faster. With this being said, people started becoming of what they ate. For instance a lot of people who ate meat or milk out of cows or other animals that were repeatedly feed corn and oil, were only stuffing themselves with this type of food as well. So instead of a cow stuffed with corn and oil, we became humans stuffed with corn and oil.I found an interesting article about how scientists are now experimenting with cows and other types of animals that serve us as food and produce more food. I found this result and saw it in a perspective that matched my quote which was making our food replicate and be the same so what we eat will have positive benefits to how we look and feel which is proteins and other stuff like that, but in other cases the outcome could be that the negative sides will double and never end. For example when I was reading the article that I found from genetic engineering, it stated that scientists were going to test out an experiment to see how fish can be mutated and be formed in a rather more perfect way, as they call it. Their goal was to make healthier foods but, what’s next genetically engineered humans?