Feed By Anderson

The book Feed, written by M.T. Anderson contains many controversial topics that can be connected to what is happening today. One key topic that is constantly emphasized throughout the book is technology and its evolution. A theme that can be devised would be that technology, whether it is innovative or not, can and will harm mankind. Throughout the book, Violet's body is constantly degrading due to her feed, which is a technological improvement that actually messed up her life. As the United States continues to invent new technology, the environment continues to become polluted, thus causing other countries to threaten the United States and possibly go to war. Even though better machinery is convenient, in the long run it can cause an outcome

Many people today rely on technology like it is indispensable. The pathetic desire for electronics has consumed how people think and how people live. Richard Louv writes to his generation of the increasing disconnection of humans from nature in his book, Last Child in the Woods. Louv takes a stand against the separation by including personal anecdote, rhetorical questions, and visual imagery.

Within the prominent novel feed, M. T. Anderson contributes his beliefs to those who have already challenged the fate of humanity with his phenomenal characterization, ingenious formatting, and heartbreaking setting to expose man’s most renowned disease, technology. This monstrosity may prevail if we as humans continue to accept technology into our daily lives. Schools resorting to online assignments instead of pen and paper making it impossible to succeed without the proper technology. Billions of factories and cars pollute the environment; the world falling apart while we listen to ads on the radio for sales on TV's. And now over ninety percent of adults leave home with a cellphone on their person. Anderson’s feed may take place in the future,

People believe that an abundance of technology and fast, busy lives are beneficial to more efficient and overall better society. In reality, that lifestyle may be a detriment to society. The culture, characters, and themes in Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 create an interesting dystopian setting that serves as a warning to future readers.

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards” (“Brainy Quotes” 1). While this epitomizes modern time, it also represents M.T. Anderson’s Feed and Pixar’s Wall-E. Feed is a book about a dystopian society influenced by a device, called “feed”, implanted in the brains of the citizens. The author describes a group of regular teenagers that venture to the moon for a spring break vacation of partying and going “in mal”. The main character, Titus, falls for a girl named Violet who is not like the other stereotypical teens in this book. Violet received the feed when she was much older and she is homeschooled so her brain is more developed. Together, they go on outrageous adventures until a hacker at

Novel are always good to send warning to the reader about things that can affect the society or it can happen in the future of the world. The novel Feed by MT Anderson talk about a guy named Titus who goes to the moons he can have some fun with his friend and everyone in that world have a device in the brain talked feed. Feed is like computer in the minds of people and if the feed does not work something can happen to our minds like in the novel a girl named violet end up dying because feed was work the way right. The warning that MT Anderson is try to tell the readers that we need to be careful because technology is increase in our world and one day we will depend on technology so much it will affect lives or there can some hacker who want to get our personal information. In the novel, there are some people that are more forces on feed than their own life or their own education in the novel.

In the early 1800s we created a very impressive railroad and canal systems. This made trade much easier. One doesn’t need to grow crops if they have something they can trade for crops. This increased trade allowed people to not have to grow their own crops or raise their own livestock. By the 1860s and 1870s the Union Stockyard and Armour meat packing company were opened. This along with ice preservation, allowed individuals to get slabs and cuts of meat, rather than the entire animal. This allowed Americans to be further away from the food process by allowing them to not have to kill, skin, or divide up animals into edible slices of

The idea of designer babies has been present in science fiction literature and films for decades. From Huxley’s novel Brave New World, in which babies are grown in vats and there is no such thing as family, to the 1997 film Gattaca, in which children who are genetically engineered are considered superior and a person’s value is based entirely on their DNA (Molina, 2016).

Our nation’s industrial farming has become more than just feeding people; it has become a way for the food industry to make more money as human population continues to grow. Jonathan Safran Foer in his book Eating Animals, illustrates the effects factory farming has had on animals meant for human consumption. Furthermore, Foer asks many questions to the reader on what will it take for us to change our ways before we say enough is enough. The questions individuals need to be asking themselves are: how do we deal with the problem of factory farming, and what can people do to help solve these issues? Eric Schlosser in Fast Food Nation, also illustrates the animal abuse that goes unseen within the food industry as well as Bernard Rollin and Robert Desch in their article “Farm Factories”, both demonstrate what is wrong today with factory farming. Foer gives such examples of employees who work in slaughterhouses giving accounts of what goes on in the kill floors, and stories of employees who have witnessed thousands and thousands of cows going through the slaughter process alive (Animals 231). Namit Arora in the article “On Eating Animals”, as well as Michael Pollan in his book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, both address some of the issues that animals face once they hit the kill floor. The food industry has transformed not only how people eat, but also the negative effects our climate endures as a result of factory farming as illustrated by Anna Lappe in “The Climate Crisis at the End

In “All Flesh Is Grass,” Michael Pollan investigates the alternative models of producing food. To study the agricultural food chain, Pollan begins his journey in chapter 8 at Joel Salatin’s Polyface farm in Virginia, helping to make hay. Polyface farm is home to a wide variety of crops and livestock: chicken, beef, turkeys, eggs, rabbits, pigs, tomatoes, sweet corn and berries. Salatin calls himself “a grass farmer.” He takes into a deeper analysis on “organic” food, one of the most rapidly expanding product lines in America’s supermarket. There Michael gets to see the symbiotic relationship between animals and grass in action. Michael Pollan talks about an alternative method of producing food that is being overshadowed by the big, industrial system. Salatin's 100 acre Farm produces 25,000 pounds of beef, 50,000 pounds of pork, 30,000 dozen eggs, etc.

Technology today has advanced and impacted our way of living and the dependence on it has become a natural habit for our society. People today depend on their phones for numerous things such as, talking, messaging, driving directions, surfing the web or even to update their current Facebook status. Many people say that since they rely so heavily on technology, it has been known to weaken our society’s ability to open a book or newspaper to find information instead of looking at your phone. Technology has become a crutch for our generation today and without it we would fail. There have been inferences that technology will ruin us and lead us to extinction. In Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains”, he purveys speculation that technology is the cause of downfall in society and that nature will outlast man’s creation.

In Anderson’s Feed, most of the American population is joined to the internet with chips implanted into their brains. This might not be the first science fiction novel to explore the idea that the internet is in our brains, but it does so with an awareness of how that might affect our planet and our biological being in a very visceral, fleshy way. The feed is destroying the planet and interrupts common, basic biological functions. Not only are humans themselves decaying and humanity ceasing to exist, but even the planet has become so polluted that it cannot sustain or support it natural cycles or maintain many populations of wildlife.

In the novel Feed written by M.T. Anderson, the futuristic world the novel is set in a continually evolving and the characters are overcoming challenges in the technological society. This book focuses on the deteriorating world due to technological advances. The most important technological advancement is the “feed” that the corporations in the future will create. The “feed” contributes to how people participate in everyday activities. Only people who can afford one are able to have a “feed” implant. It is a parallel to today’s modern use of technology and cellular devices. Titus, the protagonist, is a teenager that comes from a wealthy family and is he grows up extremely privileged. He and his friends go to the moon for spring break.

As we begin to explore the world of technology, we must be careful that we don’t get too dependent on what it can do for us. We cannot forget that technology can change the way people think, feel, and can prevent them from daily activities. In the movie Wall-E, it gives you a glimpse of what can happen if you don’t help take care of the earth, and depend too much on technology. Wall-E gives us a look at a few Dystopian categories such as environmental, political, psychological, and technological; making the film feel as if this is what has already started to happen on earth today.

In the futuristic world M.T Anderson creates in Feed, the misuse of technology is a problem the world faces. The novel Feed describes how the world could be in the future if humans let technology rule their lives. Anderson wants the reader to realize the effect technology has on our lives, and he also wants us to understand how we are being controlled and manipulated by media. Therefore, Anderson, fearing that one day technology will surpass humanity by creating a society of idiots like in the novel Feed, warns the reader from the future our society might face if we don’t make a change soon.