Final blog post, for real this time.

Over the past ten weeks we've been looking into food production and the flaws that come with it. We've responded to articles that look into the specifics of certain foods like tomatoes or chicken. Of everything we learned about food, what I found most interesting was what we learned from Estabrook's Tomatoland. In her article she noted that there isn't really such a thing as a fresh tomato sold in a grocery store anymore. They are all chemically ripened and virtually unbruise-able so that consumers can see a perfectly round, red tomato sitting on their grocery store shelf. After reading this I am going to try to grow my own tomato's rather than buy the fake ones at the store. It's important for people to grow their own food also because then they realize the true value of food, which people tend to miss these days. Everyone just goes to the store and grabs a bushel of bananas having no idea how long it took to grow them, whereas if you grow your own tomato over the summer you'll know exactly how long it took to ripen when you're eating it. I can try to convince my friends to do the same thing as me to build upon my knowledge of tomatoes.