Write in a short paragraph explaining the video saw from Carolyn Steel and mention three pieces of evidence you collected from the video. Imagine you have one minute to explain the video.
My paragraph is as shown below.
In Carolyn Steel's introduction to the presentation, she first stated a question, "How do we feed a city?" She then states a that this is a question that is it occasionally asked. The video is basically about where food comes from, for instance, just like meat and chicken coming in from the north to London, from Scotland and Wales. (Carolyn states that animals enter the city) I have collected pieces of evidence from the video that there are approximately 7 billion carnivores (people) in the world. As plenty of meat is consumed, 19 million hectares of forest is destroyed each year, and 20 million hectares of existing arable is degraded. In addition, 1/2 of food produced in the U.S. is discarded. Carolyn also uses connections with different languages like "utopia for good place or no place" and "sitopia for food place". She believes that the world is a sitopia because we have plenty of food to produce and it is sufficient to feed the whole world, but the food is unequally distributed. In the slide that Carolyn used for what sitopia looks like looks very foundational because a food place shows a place that has food, whether cooking in a residence, in a restaurant, etc. Therefore I repeat what the the presentation is about like in the introduction, Carolyn talks about answering the question, "Where does food come from?" given with facts and statistics.
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Carolyn Steel, presents her case in an inspiring introduction, she simply states a question expands the topic and presents her evidence and thoughts as to this situation. Her slides transit from one to another as she talks with simple pictures or little labels in each picture that show a significant information about it. She includes maps to describe her sentences and labels slides relative to her speech. I've noticed she does a lot of gesturing and body language with her arms that seems to correspond with her case. She rants about, food distribution, the significance of food, the process of food, the cost, expenses, and abuse of food. She compares global starvation to global obesity, how we resort to meat as a meal. "6 billion hungry carnivores to feed by 2015" she states and describes an osculating problem from a result a great percentage of meat consumption and uneven distribution."We are not managing to feed our planet properly as a billion of us are obese and the other billion starve", she describes the worlds poor distribution of food globally, were uneven access of food takes over resulting in different conditions where over consumption happens in one fraction of the world as the other fractions suffer from an opposing circumstance. She states that "19 million hectares of rainforest are burned each year to make an arable degradable area", she shows an example of how significant areas of the world are torn down just to create a cultivatable area to produce more food when the food already being produced continues to be unevenly distributed to all parts of the world, and how the world could never run on a better utopia if this complication alone is not resolved.
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ReplyDeleteThis talk, presented by Carolyn Steel, tells us that we, in fact, are taking advantage of our food and that we do not value it. As more of us move into cities, more of us consume meat,
and that by 2050, it is estimated that twice the number of us now are going to be living in cities. Which means that Twice as much meat and dairy will be consumed (which is
equivalent to 6 billion carnivores to feed). 19 million hectares of rainforest are lost each year, along with 20 million hectares existing arable degraded. Every calorie of food takes ten
to produce. Even in a great cost, we don't value food. Instead, half the food produced in the US are thrown away. Even after all this, we are STILL not able to manage to feed all the
world properly. How did this all begin? Well, in the ancient near easts, 10,000 years ago, settlements were compact and surrounded by large farmlands. This is how food should be
treated in our society: (to Carolyn Steel), food should be valued and we should take time, enjoy and look forward to it. 'Reconise everywhere, to join up, to use food as a way of seeing that
'Sitopia' already exists in 'little pockets''- Carolyn Steel.
Carolyn Steel stated in the video that people now a days aren’t cherishing out food but instead taking it for granted, because we expect that we will have another meal, knowing when we will have it. In the Us alone ½ of all grain supply is used to feed animals now. Another ½ of the food in the US is destroyed. In the world 80% of all shipping/ trading is controlled by only 5 major companies. This means that if food needed in other countries was to be sent from maybe the US to a country in need then it might not be able to be sent via shipping because the companies may not want them to send their food stuffs through. Not only did she show this but she did a good job of showing us how cities before and now were shaped around food. Rome was a empire built on its “shopping list” to feed its citizens. Early London was shaped around its streets access to food supplies. You can clearly see how cities around the world have been shaped by the need for food and access to it.
ReplyDeleteThis comment goes for Julius Aaron Utama's paragraph: Julius, at least you have stated your evidence in your paragraph. I think the year you wrote in is not 2050, that is way too long. The year I think you were meant to wrote was 2015. I remember that the population rises fast in a few years. Overall, the paragraph is excellent.
ReplyDeleteThis comment goes for Sean Patrick Limzon's paragraph: Sean, great summary and statistics from the video, although, how does Carolyn Steel end her talk? Overall, you did a great job! :)
ReplyDeleteIn this video, Carolyn Steel is stating how much food is being wasted in the world today. In the US, half of the food there is being wasted and fed to animals. This shows how much food is being wasted when at least 10% can feed the poor people in the US. Another main factor Carolyn Steel emphasized on is the amount of calories being wasted. One calorie takes ten to produce, which means that the US is not only wasting 50% of its food, but its wasting that much ten fold! According to her, 80% of the food in the world today is controlled by only 5 multinational corporations. This is one of the main reasons that the developing countries around the world have uneven access to food. Not only did Carolyn Steel talk about access to food in the modern world, she talked about access to food in the ancient world too. She stated how successful Rome were in conquering countries and distributing food among themselves. She also explains the growth of food access of other countries and cities around the world (especially London-increased at least 5-10 times from 1840-1912).
ReplyDeleteCarolyn Steel stated in the video that people now a days aren’t cherishing out food but instead taking it for granted, because we expect that we will have another meal, knowing when we will have it. In the Us alone ½ of all grain supply is used to feed animals now. Another ½ of the food in the US is destroyed. In the world 80% of all shipping/ trading is controlled by only 5 major companies. This means that if food needed in other countries was to be sent from maybe the US to a country in need then it might not be able to be sent via shipping because the companies may not want them to send their food stuffs through. Not only did she show this but she did a good job of showing us how cities before and now were shaped around food. Rome was a empire built on its “shopping list” to feed its citizens. Early London was shaped around its streets access to food supplies. You can clearly see how cities around the world have been shaped by the need for food and access to it.
ReplyDeleteThis comment goes for Jonathan Greyham Beech's paragraph: Good summary, Jon. You provided good examples and evidence from the video. It was a short summary which is good since you only have 1 minute to explain the video. The main point was there and it was not confusing. Good job.
ReplyDeleteThis video is about how much influence food has on the world, how cities are divided and even named after what markets they have, what foods they sell, etc. It is also about how much people don't value, misuse, and take advantage of food. For example, because so many people eat meat, a third of the world's grain crop is fed to animals. Saying that, it takes 10 times as much grain for a human to get starch out of herbivorous animal meats than to get it from eating straight grain itself. Every calorie of food takes 10 to produce. What if all this extra unnecessary grain was given to the hungry? There might be enough to free the world of hunger and poverty.
ReplyDeleteThe video was basically about how there is enough food in the world for everyone but just too much is consumed or wasted by people who don't appreciate food. Global food production increased by 145% in the last 4 decades of the 20th century, yet an estimated 800 million people are still hungry. Because of this, one quarter of the British population is obese. One in three meals that are consumed by the British is a ready meal (fast food/junk food). An example of food wastage would be that half of the food produced in the USA is thrown away. It's not only greed and wastage, but also illegal hunting and deforestation. It is estimated that by 2015, there will be 2 times more dairy meat products which means 6 million hungry carnivores. 19 million hectares of forest is lost each year. All this data and information is telling us that the people who are doing this need to stop. Stop wasting, stop greediness, stop hunting, and stop deforestation.
ReplyDeleteThis comment goes for Robyn Shan's paragraph: Hey Robyn, you did a good job on this, it really does a nice job of putting the main points across. You have good statistics and your closing sentence really makes an impacting statement. Awesome work! :)
ReplyDeleteAccording to Carolyn Steel, food shapes our cities. There actually is enough food to feed the entire world but it's just unevenly distributed. 1/3 of all the grain crop is fed to ANIMALS, because we are all going to eat meat and there is going to be 6 billion meat eaters by 2050. 1 billion people starve. It is unevenly distributed that 80% of food is controlled by only 5 corporations. That makes the food we have unevenly distributed. It takes 10 calories to produce 1 calorie of food, which is uneven. In London, there is a map where you can see that some of the street names are based from where the markets used to be. For example, there was a 'Fish Street' where they sold fish. Carolyn Steel describes the video well and there are a lot of good pictures.
ReplyDeleteThis comment goes for Natasha Nurjadin's paragraph: Good summary of the video; you wrote a lot of examples and statistics (evidence). Be more specific. Nikhil did not post anything so I replied yours.
ReplyDeleteCarolyn Steel explained in this video that there is actually enough food to feed all the people on this planet, but it is unevenly distributed. 1 billion people on this planet are obese while 1 billion starve, and as people move to cities they will start eating meat. It is said that in 2015 there will be 2x more people living in the cities, and as they start eating meat there will be 6 billion carnivores in 2015. 1/3 of all grain crops grown annually are fed to animals rather then humans, and it will take 10x more grain to feed humans than animals. To make a farm that is able to grow grain they need to make an arable land, to make arable land 19 million hectares of land are lost each year. Even if we have produced a lot of food people don't value it, 1/2 of the food produced in U.S.A are thrown away. Carolyn Steel explained to us that the food produced in the world are not distributed evenly excellently, the presentation had a lot of good pictures.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the video 'Carolyn Steel', the human population is increasing rapidly and in 2050, there would be 2 times more peoople living in a city. Since our population increase, we will have more meat eaters. In the year 2050, there will be at least 6 billion hungry carnivores. To feed these huge amount of people, we will have to have more land to grow crop. So, we destroy 19 million hectares reainforest every year to create land to grow crops. We would be needing 10 times more grain if passed through an animal first. However, 80% of food are controlled by 5 media corporations which means that the food won't be evenly distributed and shared with others. So, there are 1 billion people who are being starved.
ReplyDeleteThis talk on about 'How Food Shapes our Cities' is a talk made by a person called Carolyn Steel and is about how people doesn't value the food and just throw away or even over consume the food. During the talk, she says that the US has 1/2 of the grains are fed to animals and live stock. Even surprisingly, more than 80% of the world's trade and shipment is controlled by 5 main countries. Later during the talk, she shows the map of London. She explains that some of the streets are named after food. That is an example how food can shape our city.
ReplyDeleteThis comment goes for Sean Patrick Limzon's paragraph: Hi Sean! I like how you started the paragraph by saying what Carolyn Steel said, "How do we feed a city?" I like how you gave the right information from the movie and made a good paragraph. I thought this paragraph made a lot of sense.
ReplyDeleteThis comment goes for Aditi Babel's paragraph: Your evidence and examples are very interesting! However, your topic sentence could be more of a statement rather than going to the facts straightaway.
ReplyDeleteThis video is about how much food influences the world. It also talks about how cities were once built to allow easy access to food since it was only transported on foot. But now, there are cars to bring food from one place to another. This means that cities are able to be built in places people in the olden times would never have thought to be possible. The video also says that because of so many people eating more meat than grains, one third of the worlds grain is fed to animals. But, what about the other people, the people who don't have food? Carolyn Steel also stated that 19 million hectares of rain forest is being cut down each year.
ReplyDeleteCarolyn Steel gives a detailed explanation on how food shapes our Cities. According to Caroline, there will be 6 billion hungry people by 2015. This is NOT because there is not enough food for everyone in the world, this is because wealthier or obese people consume more food than necessary/waste a large amount of food/feed a large amount to animals, leaving the poor with very little food to feed themselves. An example of this is that 1/2 of the food produced in the USA is thrown away. That amount of food could feed millions of poor people each day! Also, 1/3 of the grain crop is fed to animals, leaving only 2/3 for humans.
ReplyDeleteThis comment goes for Laurel Richards' paragraph: You have good and detailed examples and evidence, however, you have an occasional biased word.
ReplyDeleteIn Carolyn Steel's presentation, she first started with asking a question " How do you feed the city?" Then, started to explain how foods are going around the world currently. This presentaion is basically about, the problem of the way how food is treated now days, where food comes from, and though there are enough food to feed the poors, they are getting wasted, not distributed well. In this presentation, I obtained lots of evidnece that, alsomost 50% of food produced in USA are thrown away, when billion of people starve in the other side of the world. Although there are plenty of meats comsumed, 19 million hectares of Rain forest is lost every year, and 20 million hectares existing arable are degraded. She gave lots of good examples , where the food came from, just like explaining that meat coming in from the north to London, from Scotland and Wales. She also used fantastic metaphor, When she refered that there are 6 billion carnivals to feed by 2050, whcih actually meant 6 billion people.
ReplyDeleteCarolyn Steel explained in this video that there is actually enough food to feed all the people on this planet, but it is unevenly distributed.
Food shapes cities in various ways. According to the “How Food Shapes Cities" with Carolyn Steel presentation every time you eat meat you need to eat 10x as much grains. 1/3 of grains go to crops/animals. That leaves us with 2/3 of grain for the rest of the world, not enough. Agriculture provides us with almost all the food we eat. We need our agriculture. Scientists say that by 2015 we will have 6 billion “hungry carnivores” on planet Earth (“How Food Shapes Cities” presentation by TOD). With these statistics there is no doubt that we are eating too much meat and not enough grains. If we go on like this we could loose a WHOLE lot of animals and meat products. What will happen if we run out of meat?
ReplyDeleteDo you know where your food came from? Can you confidently say that what you are eating is safe? “We are what we eat but also, the world is what we eat.” This video is telling us that we have to change our food security system in order to preserve the nature on earth forever. First of all, the foods are not efficiently distributed to people. Although they are billions of people starving, half of the foods produced in USA are currently thrown away for waste. In fact, 80% of the foods are only controlled by 5 multi-national corporations. Natures are destroyed year by year. 19million hectares of forests are lost every year. 20million hectares of existing arable are degraded. If we just leave this issue alone, it will cause us a serious problem in the near future. In 2050, it is estimated that the population will be twice larger than it is now, which means twice meat are consumed. In this video, she told us the reality that the world is facing now. She presented some history of Rome and London, etc. and explained us how and why the world became like this. In conclusion, food is too important for people to ignore this issue. Once people notice how serious that impact is, it may change people’s attitude to the food and global environment.
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