Today's Class

Today in class we continued watching the movie Guns, Germs, and Steel.  Today the video was talking about food supply and how the people of New Guinea get their food.  They get food from animals and other plants in their country.  The most common food supply is the sago tree.  The women strip the sago tree bare and find shavings in the middle.  They then mix the shavings with water and form a small supply of some food that looks like oatmeal.  The people of New Guinea also use a lot of wheat.  Wheat is in almost every food item.  It is hard to find something that does not have a form of wheat cooked inside of it.  In America there is wheat mixed into any kind of food you can imagine.  There are 20,000,000 tons of wheat in America.  With 20,000,000 tons of wheat and 300,000,000 people in America, there is 133 pounds of wheat per person per year.  All of this wheat means that people in America have a surplus of wheat.  Also, the New Guineans asked why we have more cargo than them.  We have more cargo than them because we have the technology and knowledge to keep inventing new machines and things.