HW#7d

Chapter 9:

Is somewhat of an eye opener for the general public, aside from continuing to focus on the dangers that workers in meat packing factories are exposed to, it unveils a new dangerous, dirty, and ultimately unhealthy side of the food factories. Using the E. Coli bacteria as a basis for all of the food poisoning cases I looked at, I looked deeper into how these viruses and bacteria get into our food and spread halfway around the world in days. Mostly paying attention to the cases of children infected by many different strains of bacteria, I began to question how these tainted foods get into the public. In short, the major companies usually hide these violations or falsify papers stating that everything has been checked and is “healthy” for human consumption.

·        After having been exposed to the raw truth first hand, how did that affect you eating habits?


Chapter 10:

Focuses on Plauen, Germany and its changes in history. Beginning with its very industrialized factories that crumbled soon after World War 2 began. After being a very lush and green landscape populated by thousands of people as well as the first to become a completely “Jew-Free” city under the Nazi rule, it became deserted after the rise of threat of bombing by the Americans became apparent. After being very disliked by the rest of Germany and the fall of the Berlin wall plans to build McDonalds soon arose as a result of the new freedom. I wrote the rest of the chapter to build on the ideas I present at the beginning of the chapter to express the changes McDonalds has made in the rest of the world such as Japan and over 120 countries.

•    "If we eat McDonalds hamburgers and potatoes for thousands of years, we will become taller, our skin will become white, and our hair will be blonde.” 

Epilogue:

For the epilogue I decided to look at one of the nice sides of the food industry which may very well be in danger of being shut down because of the threat it poses to the other companies that do harmful things to their meat. Sidetracking from the topic of food, I also mention the new tactics that some people who believe we should be healthy are taking. This Idea is was most commonly referred to as “new urbanism” which ,meshed together the idea of a city landscape with natural elements such as parks and open space to encourage more healthy people. I relate all this back to the problems with the food industries that feel this proposition of eating all natural food is ridiculous but only because they may lose money or even worse, their company. Much like some of the people in the city may feel that new urbanism may pose a threat to their profession. I also talk about the psychological approach that the food corporations have been taking to increase their number of consumers such as the advertisement to young children, persuading them to buy food because they can get a toy with it or there is a small playhouse within a fast food restaurant.

·        “Nature is smart as hell”

During these three years of collection data and interviewing people, did you ever feel as sense of hopelessness because of the level of corruption within the government and food corporations?

Did you ever almost give up?