HW 12 - Final Food Project 2 - Outline

Thesis: 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. 

Major claim:How our society makes foods is disturbing. It is wrong the way we kill and treat our animals, and non animal food. Also the way we sell the food to our society, without them knowing what actually is in the food.

Supporting claim 1: It is wrong the way we kill and treat our animals, and non animal food.

Evidence # 1: http://www.mcspotlight.org/case/pretrial/factsheet.html
Evidence 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HPnULHzJVc
Evidence 3:http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/681/do-mcdonalds-milkshakes-contain-seaweed

Supporting claim 2: Why we sell food products to our society,without them knowing 100% of what is in our food.

Evidence 1:http://www.NaturalNews.com/028030_high_fructose_corn_syrup_health.html

Evidence 2:http://www.NaturalNews.com/028030_high_fructose_corn_syrup_health.html
Evidence 3: Fast Food nation p.120- Using beef fat to make fries
Evidence 4: Fast Food Nation p.117- Fries from fast food places aren't hand made, they are al

Everything above is basically my hyperlink, and pieces of evidence.

Epilogue: Fast Food Nation

Precis: Lasater Ranch occupies about 30,000 acres of shortgrass. Lasater's cattle were denied. Tom Lasater failed to graduate from Princeton, and became a rancher. He had an idea, to mix Herefords, Shortthorns, and Brahmans. Cattle was thought to be more benefitial from the challenges of the ecosystem.

Gems:  "He thought cattle benefited more from the challenges of a natural ecosystem than from any human efforts to control the environment."(p.256)

Thoughts/Questions: I didn't know it was that easy to become a farmer, and start a company. I think that it was a good idea for tom to combine different cattle to make the best kind. It was probably a technique that he started, and possibly others followed afterwards.

Chapter 10: Fast Food Nation

Precis: Plauen used to be the smallest market town, and then at the end of the nineteenth century, came a textile industry. The city's population trippled. Plauen had the most suicides, and highest unemployment rate at the time. The U.S. Army bombed Plauen, and took over. Plauen was considered lifeless to some people.

Gems: "At the end of the war, 75% of Plauen lay in ruins."(p.227)

Thoughts/Questions: It's amazing(in a bad way) how someplace so known and beautiful could become almost basically lifeless. This isn't good, and it is partially America's fault.

Chapter 9: Fast Food Nation

Precis: Going to resturants make you think that there isn't anything wrong with there food. The food can sometimes taste or smell bad. You would expect that it would be poisonous, but getting food poisoning doesn't alwayscome from the food you think it came from. You never know what is in your food.

Gems: "Gallegos disagreed. E. coli O157:H7 was rarely found in chicken. She asked if Harding had consumed any ground beef lately. Harding recalled eating a hamburger a couple of days before visiting the Mexican resturant. But he doubted the hamburger could have made him ill."(p.194)

Thoughts/Questions: I agree that any food can possibly give you food poisonong if you are not careful. Sometimes the most unlikely possibilities are the answer.

Chapter 8:Fast Food Nation

Precis: People who work at the slaughter house, don't want many people what goes on there. It is built so that everything inside is hidden from the outside. None of the workers talk to each other, because they are too busy, and don't want to fall behind. The tools used are somewhat different from each other, but most of them are electronic. There are many different jobs within the factory, each job is taken serious, and can't be finished without every worker doing their job.

Gems: "Nobody is smiling or chatting, they're too busy, anxiously trying not to fall behing."(p.170)

Thoughts/Questions: I think that it is crazy that people take their job serious. I actually realize now that they really need to, because those are the people who keep McDonalds, Wendy's, Burger King, and other fast food spots around. I realize that they need to work as hard as they possibly can no matter what circumstance. I need to say this, no matter how much that situation disgusts me. 

Freakinomics response:

1. Ther are many moves that served as the basis for freakinomics, for example bridery. Bribery was also one of the tools used in the movie, for example when the kids were getting money just for having good grades. Another tool, was analyzation of  someone's name in life, for example when they were trying to find out who named their child that way, and for what reason; As a symbol?
 to look cool? A final tool was to find out if tere was cheating going on in sumo wrestling. This was important, because they were trying to fnd out who really should win the compititions.

3. They weren't talking about causation, but was talking more about corrieation

Statemet: I agree that freakinomics needs to help others explore what everything is. For  example, when finding out cheating was coming from sumo. We woulb be able to explore that, and.

Chapter 7:Fast Food Nation

Precis: The smell of Greeley Colorado gives itself away before anyone knows that it is there. People usually don't recognize the smell there, because they are so used to it. The industialization of cattle-raising and meatpacking has gone from one of the nation's best paying manufacturing jobs, to the lowest. ConAgra runs the biggest meatpacking complex in Greeley, and owns both a sheep and beef slaughterhouse.

Gems:"They have turned one of the nation's best-paying manufacturing jobs into one of the lowest paying."(p.149)

Thoughts:I thought it was crazy that you could smeel a place before you actually see the place. That doesn't make sense. That means that the place is basically known for one thing...slaughtering animals.

HW #9

Chapter 4:
In Colorado,there are a lot of pizza places. There have been many other resturants opened around. A mall was built, which brought in places like Applebee's, movie theaters, Olive Garden etc. Mostly people who get the pizza there are college students, regular workers, large families and the poor. "Little Caesars pizzas are big and inexpensive, often providing enough food for more than one meal."(p.92) I think that it is interesting that Caesars pizza is brought up, so it could atract all types of people, because they are so cheap. This means that they are atracting more people to get fast food.

Chapter 5
"Gold dust." Gold dust was used as a method to dry potatos. This was used to supply food for the American military during World War II. "The Caldwell facility became the largest dehydrating plant in the world."(p.113) I was surprised, because I never knew that during the war, dried potatos were the main meal. I didn't even know whem dried potatos were created.

Growing own food.

It feels good to grow my own food. I have grown plants in the past, but never to actually eat. It actually tought me how to care for a plant better. This makes me realize that it really isn't that hard to grow something like food from seeds. All you need is the right time and place to do it. Also never to neglect the plant or forget about it. to me, the process seemed sacred to me. I will always remember this.

Hw # 8: Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

Chapter 3:
Colorodo went from being a mining town with real outlaws, to a casino outpost. Downtown Colorado isn't that interesting. Mostly old fashioned. Homes in Colorado were similar to homes in California. "Many of the problems that caused white, middle class families to leave southern California are now appearing in Rocky Mountain states."(p.64) It's interesting to notice that since the style of California and colorado are so much alike, so should the problems.

Hw # 7: Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

Intro:
Companies in Cheyenne Mountan were used to eating cafateria food. They got tired of doing that which resulted in them either calling Dominos pizza or going to McDonalds. Mcdondalds hires about one million people, which is more than any company. Mcdonalds earns most of it's money by collecting rent, compared to selling food. "When the men and women stationed at Cheyenne Mountain get tired of the food in the cafeteria, they often send somebody over to the Burger King at Fort Carson, a nearby army base. Or they call Domino's."(p.2) I feel as though people have become even more lazy as time went on. Eventually there aren't going to be many places actually growing food still.

Chapter 1:
Carl N. Karcher is one of the fast food industry's pioneers. Carl was born on a farm in Ohio in 1917. Carl's uncle invited him to go to California and work for him. Carl worked for his uncle 76 hours a week."This is heaven."(p.13) It's intersting to know that Carl likes the west more than the east. The west side is like a whole new world for him.

Chapter 2:
Merchandise for Mcdonalds is everywhere. You can buy t-shirts and other clothing supporting Mcdonalds. Telephones were shaped like fries, and ordinary objects were customized to enforce the Mcdonalds logo. Ray kroc made sure that the Mcdonald's industry spread nationwide. "Ray Kroc took the Mcdonald brothers' Speedee Service System and spread it nationwide, creating a fast food empire."(p.34)
I think that it is pretty cool to think about how a little company could be shot from not much, to the biggest thing in the world.