Many of the dominant social practices in our society - practices that define a "normal" life - on further investigation turn out to involve nightmares and industrial atrocities.
The food industry doesn't care about the workers or animals, they only want the money.
supporting claim #1:workers are treated unfairly by their employers and work in unsafe conditions
evidence: movie clip about workers getting injured
evidence: http://www.organicconsumers.org/irrad/slaughterworkers.cfm
evidence: mexican workers are treated like slaves in a movie clip
supporting claim #2: the treatment of the animals both physcially and what they are fed.
evidence: Pollan book, page 219 (Animals suffering)
evidence: movie clip about cruel punishment to cows and pigs
evidence: Pollan book, animals living in there own mess
evidence: Pollan book, animals are fed to othere animals
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
HW 10 - Food, Inc. Response
The main ideas of this film were to show the people what is in there food, where there food comes from and what they can do to be healthier. It showed the evils of the corn industry. People think corn is a healthy vegetable, but there are dark secrets to this corn. To farmers, they prize corn like we prize money. Farmers give corn to the factories to be processed, farmers know what the factories do to our corn, but they don't care. The only thing that these farmers care about, is the money that they get afterwards. They think we are just walking bags of money just handing them a piece every time we leave the supermarket,
The movie showed a lot of things that the book couldn't show inside of your head. The movies showed the people's on the farms reaction when in the chicken places where all of the chicken were bunched up. They showed how it looks inside and people's thoughts based upon what they do everyday. The book just told us how the chicken were living when they were inside of those pens before being slaughtered. The movie also showed ho the animals were slaughtered with actual graphic videos, were the book just showed them holding up a chicken being prepared to get slaughtered, and after the slaughtering already happened, with the gets and how they get rid of all the extra parts of animals.
I already knew that they put chemicals inside there food to make it last longer, but after watching the movie, I never knew that the chemicals were this dangerous to our bodies. These chemicals aren't 100 percent safe. Some kids are getting bigger by eating these chemicals, and some people are dying. The fat in this food plus the chemicals when eaten gets stuck around your heart (the fat parts) and forces your heart to pump harder to get more blood. This results in a lot of people having heart attacks.
The movie showed a lot of things that the book couldn't show inside of your head. The movies showed the people's on the farms reaction when in the chicken places where all of the chicken were bunched up. They showed how it looks inside and people's thoughts based upon what they do everyday. The book just told us how the chicken were living when they were inside of those pens before being slaughtered. The movie also showed ho the animals were slaughtered with actual graphic videos, were the book just showed them holding up a chicken being prepared to get slaughtered, and after the slaughtering already happened, with the gets and how they get rid of all the extra parts of animals.
I already knew that they put chemicals inside there food to make it last longer, but after watching the movie, I never knew that the chemicals were this dangerous to our bodies. These chemicals aren't 100 percent safe. Some kids are getting bigger by eating these chemicals, and some people are dying. The fat in this food plus the chemicals when eaten gets stuck around your heart (the fat parts) and forces your heart to pump harder to get more blood. This results in a lot of people having heart attacks.
Friday, October 15, 2010
HW 9 - Freakonomics Response
Question 3: The people in Freakonomics mostly rely on the evidence in front of them given to them by the kids. Like when they tried to pay kids $50 each month if they were able to pass there classes. It wasn't successful but they still had quite a bit of evidence to test if it was successful of unsuccessful. 5-7 percent of kids passed when they thought they weren't. Some other pieces of evidence they found was they were trying to determine if someone name had determined how there personality was. But it was proved that your name doesn't make up your personality. It was really the neighborhood that you grew up in. If you grew up in a bad neighborhood, then that is what you might become, but if grew up in a good neighborhood then maybe you might turn out better. One more piece of evidence was how when they said when someone is cheating, you can look in the numbers. LIke when sumos fight in like a tournament and there si someone who is 7-6 vs someone who is 6-6 the person who is 7-6 would most of the time lose, but in the next round, 95 percent of the time the person 7-6 would win against the person who beat him last round.
Question 2: The people in Freakonomics had very interesting points. One of the points they brought up was when there is a white person looking for a job, and a black person looking for a job. They would send out job applications to people but the outcome wasn't right from my perspective. On the application, the names of the person filling out the application determined how long it would take for a person to take a look at their application. What they considered a black name like, Deshawn, Tyshawn, etc compared to someone like, Chester, Todd, etc made it easier or difficult to find the same job either race was trying to get. It could take the white person only 3 weeks to get hired. Where it takes a black person up to 11 weeks to get hired.
Question 2: The people in Freakonomics had very interesting points. One of the points they brought up was when there is a white person looking for a job, and a black person looking for a job. They would send out job applications to people but the outcome wasn't right from my perspective. On the application, the names of the person filling out the application determined how long it would take for a person to take a look at their application. What they considered a black name like, Deshawn, Tyshawn, etc compared to someone like, Chester, Todd, etc made it easier or difficult to find the same job either race was trying to get. It could take the white person only 3 weeks to get hired. Where it takes a black person up to 11 weeks to get hired.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
HW 7 - Reading Response Monday
CHAPTER 1: My version of corn is a special one. I am here today to tell you how corn has evolved over the period of time. Corn has spread all over the world really fast and it is really successful
CHAPTER 2: Corn isn't just another vegetable that people eat. Corn is everything that you basically eat. Corn is in the meat you eat, the meat that you buy. Corn has spread like gold across the world and continues today.
CHAPTER 3: Corn doesn't have all natural ingredients that you people think. I am her to tell you that corn actually has nitrogen inside of it.
CHAPTER 4: The leftover corn is wasted and thrown out somewhere by emptying it and letting it pass through elevators, pipes, mills, and laboratories.
CHAPTER 5: We feed our cows mostly corn and sometimes other cow parts, but that backfired on us. In England the people started dying because of what they called mad cow disease. It was a infection inside of the cows brain.
CHAPTER 6: Do you want to know where your food comes from. Sure it comes from animals but do you want to know how we make it stay fresh. We put preservatives inside of our/your food so that we can make it stay fresh longer. It doesn't do anything to your bodies, like increase fat around your heart, nothing like that
CHAPTER 7: Corn isn't as healthy as some people think it is. Most childhood obesity com from eating food, but inside of that food os what we call corn. Mcdonald's use corn in there food and tried super sizing there meals. Because, they found out people tend to eat 30 percent more when they have a bigger tray of food.
CHAPTER 8: There are many types of food in the world, there is sweet, sour, spicy, tender, bitter, hard, and juicy food. Most people decide what they eat and decide whether they like lit or not.
CHAPTER 9: Fast foods have a lot of chemicals inside of here food. Take the chicken nuggets for example, o r the chemical nuggets, they have chemicals inside of them. One chemical called Dimethylopolysiloxene is suspected by people of causing cancer.
CHAPTER 10: Not all corn is bad. There is in fact some healthy food out there, we call that organic food. 100 percent organic food are products that contain only certified organic ingredients
CHAPTER 11: Not all corn is healthy like we were making it out to be. Your actually eating oil that is put in some food. in 2003, researchers studied the crops of two types of corn, strwaberries, and blackberries. These plants were identical and grew side by side. One set of plants was grown using organic methods, but the other set was grown conventionally with chemical fertillizer, pesticides, and herbicides.
CHAPTER 12: Unlike animals, we humans can't eat grass, but we don't always need to kill animals in order to get meat. We can put plants such as corn into meat like w already do in order to make corn into everything that you eat. A Naylor farm is industrial, has annual species, monoculture, fossil fules, a global market, and imported fertility. The polyface farm is ecological, has perennial species, diverse crop species, solar energy, a local market, and local fertility.
CHAPTER 13: Have you really actually looked at grass? When we humans look at grass, all we see is the samething over and over agian, but we never looked at grass form a cow's perspective, to a cow, grass is like a open buffet, where they get to eat everything/anything that they are able to find. My farm was abused for 150 years, and today I am still restoring the land. I wish my dad was here to see what a great job we done to make the farm what it is today.
CHAPTER 14: When we let or chickens go loose in pasture, we rely on there natural instincts to clean up after the herbivores. During the winter our cows and chickens leave there pastures and head into the barn. But our polyface farm doesn't stop, so we just move our work indoors. We must leave the manure the cow's leave wherever it falls from. This usually stays beneath the cattle.
CHAPTER 15: We round up the chicken in the morning and put them in big plastic crates. We kiil them, take out there guts, and plucker them by taking of all of there feathers. We put all of this stuff in a big pile and prepare it for extraction. The first thing you must do is cut off its head.
CHAPTER 16:
CHAPTER 2: Corn isn't just another vegetable that people eat. Corn is everything that you basically eat. Corn is in the meat you eat, the meat that you buy. Corn has spread like gold across the world and continues today.
CHAPTER 3: Corn doesn't have all natural ingredients that you people think. I am her to tell you that corn actually has nitrogen inside of it.
CHAPTER 4: The leftover corn is wasted and thrown out somewhere by emptying it and letting it pass through elevators, pipes, mills, and laboratories.
CHAPTER 5: We feed our cows mostly corn and sometimes other cow parts, but that backfired on us. In England the people started dying because of what they called mad cow disease. It was a infection inside of the cows brain.
CHAPTER 6: Do you want to know where your food comes from. Sure it comes from animals but do you want to know how we make it stay fresh. We put preservatives inside of our/your food so that we can make it stay fresh longer. It doesn't do anything to your bodies, like increase fat around your heart, nothing like that
CHAPTER 7: Corn isn't as healthy as some people think it is. Most childhood obesity com from eating food, but inside of that food os what we call corn. Mcdonald's use corn in there food and tried super sizing there meals. Because, they found out people tend to eat 30 percent more when they have a bigger tray of food.
CHAPTER 8: There are many types of food in the world, there is sweet, sour, spicy, tender, bitter, hard, and juicy food. Most people decide what they eat and decide whether they like lit or not.
CHAPTER 9: Fast foods have a lot of chemicals inside of here food. Take the chicken nuggets for example, o r the chemical nuggets, they have chemicals inside of them. One chemical called Dimethylopolysiloxene is suspected by people of causing cancer.
CHAPTER 10: Not all corn is bad. There is in fact some healthy food out there, we call that organic food. 100 percent organic food are products that contain only certified organic ingredients
CHAPTER 11: Not all corn is healthy like we were making it out to be. Your actually eating oil that is put in some food. in 2003, researchers studied the crops of two types of corn, strwaberries, and blackberries. These plants were identical and grew side by side. One set of plants was grown using organic methods, but the other set was grown conventionally with chemical fertillizer, pesticides, and herbicides.
CHAPTER 12: Unlike animals, we humans can't eat grass, but we don't always need to kill animals in order to get meat. We can put plants such as corn into meat like w already do in order to make corn into everything that you eat. A Naylor farm is industrial, has annual species, monoculture, fossil fules, a global market, and imported fertility. The polyface farm is ecological, has perennial species, diverse crop species, solar energy, a local market, and local fertility.
CHAPTER 13: Have you really actually looked at grass? When we humans look at grass, all we see is the samething over and over agian, but we never looked at grass form a cow's perspective, to a cow, grass is like a open buffet, where they get to eat everything/anything that they are able to find. My farm was abused for 150 years, and today I am still restoring the land. I wish my dad was here to see what a great job we done to make the farm what it is today.
CHAPTER 14: When we let or chickens go loose in pasture, we rely on there natural instincts to clean up after the herbivores. During the winter our cows and chickens leave there pastures and head into the barn. But our polyface farm doesn't stop, so we just move our work indoors. We must leave the manure the cow's leave wherever it falls from. This usually stays beneath the cattle.
CHAPTER 15: We round up the chicken in the morning and put them in big plastic crates. We kiil them, take out there guts, and plucker them by taking of all of there feathers. We put all of this stuff in a big pile and prepare it for extraction. The first thing you must do is cut off its head.
CHAPTER 16:
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