Dr.Rivera


Michael pollen wrote like a short little passage about his steer which is a cattle named 534. When pollan wrote this he must of had a purpose. I think that purpose was to give us more information about the industrial food chain and how they don't treat the cattles right and how the cattles including Pollans cattle of 534 went from good fields and stream waters to the them never having that good life again and them being taken away from that. I know that they had the good way of living before they got taken because "In November,when I visited,the ground was covered with a thick coat of yellow and gold grass. Sprinkled across the fields were moving black dots: Angus cows and calves,grazing". This at first to me tells me how good the cows had it. Then from that to " yet,after a few months at poky my steer will never have the opportunity to eat green grass again".pollan showed us that he knows what the food chain is like because he saw it and went through it for himself and how where his steer was taken was not better then where his steer was at. He basically wanted to inform us more not only about things he know but things he had been through himself.