Survival of the fittest

Jana Tellez

Eng. 101

Monday, September 26/27, 2011

Ken Monfort stated explaining although he lost to the Supreme Court he gained $270 million in stock when ConAgra asked him to become a top executive, he became a part of what he tried to prevent. “There should be at least three large players instead of just two” (Schlosser 158). He joined them after he realized he couldn’t beat them. Monfort tried to beat the courts but couldn’t so he took the money and job position offered to him by ConAgra instead of receiving nothing.  Ken Monfort became a hypocrite. He became a hypocrite because all this time he was pointing the finger at the two merging companies and in the end after losing he figured he can win by accepting the deal with ConAgra. Money can change a person’s perspective, Monfort joined the two merging companies when he realized he lost the battle but gained because he became a part of what he tried to prevent. The second he was offered a large amount of stock he was not hesitant to change his views. Ken Monfort would become a very rich man like the two company owners would when they merged and he figured if they can get why can’t I? So he did except ConAgra’s deal.  Survival of the fittest! Monfort switched sides thinking of himself and his well being.

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        The relationship between food corporations and corporate food workers is poor and displeasing. In the book "Fast Food Nation" Eric Schlosser explains that fast food companies allow de-skilled teenagers work for them because they don't know any better these kids are coming from working class families who have one thing on their mind MONEY!  The teenagers settle for the little bit of money they will make in the fast food companies and they will do this because they are vulnerable inexperienced children who really don't know any better. Schlosser says "Fast food kitchens often seem like a scene from Bugsy Molone, in which all the actors are children pretending to be adults"(Schlosser,68). We have children working in these fast food companies in reality to compare the movie to the film makes sense. This is meaningful because if you picture the scene from the film you may giggle while picturing it, but this is what it is, this is whats going on in the fast food industries. we have children inexperienced they don't know any better the only thing they see is money and the one place they can get money from is working at a fast food place because the fast food companies aim for the children and they aim for the children to work for them because they don't know any better.

MY SECOND DRAFT - POV, FOOD INC. ERIC SCHLOSSER

JANA TELLEZ

ENG 101

TITLE: SECOND DRAFT POV FOOD INC ERIC SCHLOSSER

The relationship between food corporations and corporate food workers is poor and displeasing. Eric schlosser witnessed firsthand the conditions our factory workers go through to be abused and underpaid. The work environment these men and woman have to endure for less than minimum wage is sad and it shows us firsthand how vulnerable these people are. If you think of it these are big food corporations they make millions every day and these poor workers go through hell to make nothing. If you think of it these big corporations are taking advantage of these people who they know are illegal and they need them. But what would these big food corporations be without these people?

The majority of the workers are vulnerable immigrants who don’t have a voice to speak of what goes on. Schlosser explains that the workers are underpaid and are physically, mentally abused on a daily basis.  Strawberries are very popular but what many do not know is that a lot of time and effort goes into getting it to the supermarkets. Each strawberry have to be handpicked one by one you have to be delicate and you have to have a lot of patience. Strawberries are grown on farms and you need hundreds of workers to be out on the farms every day rain or shine. Eric schlosser said that he seen that the hard labor is exhausting and it’s even worse when you know at the end of the day you make a little money.

Woman are sexually abused, harassed, touched these woman go through it every day.  Men talked down to its sad because they are human just like anyone else it should not be allowed. . In 1991 a woman finally spoke up and was given 2.4 million dollars by the federal jury she explained that men were allowed to rub themselves and scream absentees at her  while the supervisor’s watched and laughed.(FAST FOOD NATION 175-176 by: Eric Schlosser) Schlosser states that the supervisors tend to be in late twenties early thirties and each one is like a dictator on their high horse. The power they think they have over the people is pathetic.  in some cases woman at times have a consensual relationship with their supervisor for marriage a green card and freedom even to transfer to a new plant.

What these men and woman go through on a daily basis no one should have to go through. Eric Schlosser summed it up the way these vulnerable people live is rough. We worry about what we’re going to eat on a daily basis but what we don’t think about is how our food got to you, every time you eat a strawberry think about the life of the person who picked that strawberry underpaid rough abused it’s you pay these big corporations for the food but majority of that goes straight to the corporation not the man or woman behind the strawberry.