One Main Idea

                      One main idea from the book Eating Animals is the way humans are raised to eat animals.  We are use to doing things that were taught to us since we were little. We knew that eating chicken and beef will make our bodies  healthy because this  kind of foods have vitamins and good nutrients that we need in order to grow healthy. We only follow our beliefs and don’t realize that all these animals are being abused and go through a lot of suffering before they become our meals. As Safran states “animals suffer tend to grant that animals feel pain at one level but deny them the sort of being “(Foer, 76). I believe that the author is telling us that even though animals can’t express their pain they are suffering, they feel a lot of pain, but the sad thing is that most of us don’t know or don’t want to know what is going on with these animals .Maybe because this is a matter that if I don’t know I am not involved with this issue and I have nothing to do with this, it is not my problem. We know that this isuue should concern all human beings.

Eating Animals

          In the book Eating Animals  by Jonathan Safran Foer he talks about an idea “externalize “ in page 34 .The author is referring to this term in a serous and truthful way. He says that the factory farming system has forgotten or put aside a big reality which is affecting our environment, animal cruelty and also human diseases. These big issues are out there and are affecting us so rapidly that most of us are not aware of this problem being caused by our factory farming system. The worst part of this serious matter is that there isn’t any solution available to try to fix this problem.  They are not thinking about the tremendous impact that this is causing in our lives. Raising cows with a lot of chemicals which will affect us in some serious way, making all those poor animals suffer, treating them so cruelty abusing them in every possible way it is just not human like to do this kind of things.

The truth about McDonalds

The truth about McDonalds

                 A personal experience I could share about the fast food industry is that I used to be a number one fan about eating this food and taking my kids to McDonalds .After reading about how the hamburgers are made and what really a hamburgers contains I don’t think I would ever eat another hamburger .I knew that the McDonalds food was bad but I did not know all the things that are hidden and the consumers don’t know .It is not only the trans fat tat is bad is the way McDonalds food is assembled. I also thought that the chicken nuggets were a healthy choice. I used to take my kids to eat and play there but I also learned in my class how the chicken nuggets are made. I learned that this is not a healthy choice either .The chickens are raised with a lot of chemicals which is really bad and that’s what I was feeding my children. I am really glad we studied this topic in class and it made me aware of the things that I was  eating and feeding my children .I hope more and more people can get informed about what’s  really behind the golden arches .It’s not happiness it’s something that would affect us or our kids in the future.

The End of Overeating

             

                                               The End of Overeating

             In the book The End of overeating, by Dvid A Kesseler  I found this key word in chapter 3, page 12 which I think is really important on the way our brain communicates with our body, and this is Palatability “In everyday language, we call food palatable if it has an agreeable taste. But when scientists say a food is palatable, they are referring primary to its capacity to stimulate the appetite and prompt us to eat more” This means that a lot of people gained weight because of the way they eat. The problem is their own overeating habits, and occasionally they are not even aware that they have this problem, this makes the situation so complicated and that’s to try to keep those unwanted pounds off their bodies. Some people eat all time when they are hungry, not hungry, anxious, depressed, stressed and sad. They try to fix a problem with a bad habit which is eating lots of food high in calories, sugar, fat and salt just to make them feel a little better. At the end, the problem doesn’t get solved and a new problem is encounter, which will affect them in a more serious way. It will affect their health little by little, then the is risk of serious illness like heart attacks, diabetes, cholesterol and  many more become part of their lives.  The mind controls the human body, but there is something stronger than the will of say no. When the brain gets a taste of sweet, salt and fats it just gives it a bust which awakens the brain, it just starts feeling so exited   that it asks for more. I think that’s the problem in most individuals that this can not be controlled and they are eating more and more and gaining weight so rapidly that when they want to stop they realized it’s almost impossible.

Food Inc.

         Food Inc.         

        In the food Inc. movie part 3 what impacted me the most was, when Maria Gonzales says that they don’t have many options about eating healthy. It’s cheaper to get a hamburger than to get a bunch of broccoli. Fruits and vegetable are expensive to buy   now this days .There is a lot of different products like soda, candy and chips  that are  cheaper because they are made  from corn syrup  which becomes  affordable to a middle class family .The choice is there but  for a family with  low  income, it’s hard to  afford  eating  healthy like lots of fruits and vegetables . Maria’s husband has diabetes and he knows that he is in a higher health risk because he keeps constantly eating unhealthy fast food. They are using their low income to buy medicine for her husband and buy some kind of fast food that they could afford .He is getting treated for diabetes trying to cure   his sickness mean while, they keep eating unhealthy  food which may affect their daughters later on their lives. So it’s like help him now and then suffers the consequences on her daughters health later on.

For me this is really sad because I know I lot a people like that they go through the same situation and they really don’t have a choice.

Obesity and Fast Food

              In Eric Schlosser book I found some important ideas like the one in page 241 where he says “Obesity is now second only to smoking as a cause of mortality in the United States”.  The epidemic obesity that began in the United States during the late 1970s is now spreading to the rest of the world, with fast food as one of its vectors. Pg.  242 “I think these ideas are important because it affects us all. Obesity has increased enormously, especially after   war world II   because of the birth of the fast food industry.  After the war Americans started consuming more and more fast food, but this is not a problem only in the USA it’s a problem that is spreading rapidly through out the whole world. For example China’s overweight teenagers have triple in the past decade the same problem is affecting Japan, India and also Great Britain. Now fast food is more accessible to all kinds of people prices are not too high so people keep consuming it in large amounts. The only thing they don’t realize that consuming those high calories, sugar and salt food is making them obese which can develop a lot of health problems like heart disease, breast, stomach and colon cancer, diabetes, arthritis high blood pressure infertility and strokes .Animals are not designed to eat other animals.

Uniformity

         In the book Fast Food Nations by Eric Schlosser he talks about an idea of uniformity in page 5 he say “The key to a success franchise, according to many texts on the subject, can be expressed in one word uniformity “The idea means that all franchise food places offer the same food, so consumers recognize the same taste so they would express the same emotions, same feeling trust, they will trust their instinct and consume what they are used to. They won’t eat new food or in a new place they don’t know and trust. That’s exactly what the McDonalds Corporation wanted to achieve, and they were very successful at it. In years later the same thought is used over again by the fast food industries McDonalds consolidates the number of cattle suppliers, so that when in comes to the met packers there would be an no difference in the taste of their hamburgers .They also used uniformity in the way they prepared their French fries by using the same chemicals and the same flavor suppliers. They also used uniformity in the way they grow their chickens, to make their chicken nuggets taste exactly the same so consumers would not find taste difference. The Mac nuggets in one place would taste the same as across the country.  

Encroachment

      In Eric Schlosser “Fast Food Nation” he mentioned  an important idea Encroachment that comes in chapter 4 stated like this “ As the American market for fast food grows more saturated, restaurants belonging to the same chain are  frequently being put closer one to another. Franchisees call the practice encroachment and angrily oppose it”. What this means is that the big corporations people who sell the franchise don’t care if fast food places are built closer one to another in the same city .The only thing they are worried about is to make an earning from the franchisees who own the restaurant. But this brings a big conflict between the franchisees; they are not making any money because of the competition. And they are very mad because they want to have their restaurant apart from the others.  In the other hand franchisees still have to pay the big corporation for the use of the franchise. The customers see the same name or another restaurant and they don’t care where the restaurant is located, if it’s closer its better for them.  They go in and eat this is because they trust the name .Eric calls this trust the bran essence. Silvia Bravo

Things I will learn

Key words are ideas that can explain more than one thing