Sunday, October 30, 2011
BLOG FOUR: FARM TO FRIDGE AT LAGUARDIA
The contents of the video was to show viewers what we are not suppose to know about our food. In the video it showed us the mistreatment of our meat poultry and dairy. I seen workers snapping the birds necks sticking them in garbage bags to suffocate. I seen workers cutting off cows tails the killing of cows also how piglets are castrated and many thrown against the floor to be killed. The contents of the video connect with my video project by the harsh treatment the animals go through. My video project is basically statistics on whether or not a student will pay more for an organic burger rather then a processed one and if the student is aware that there is no organic food within walking distanced of laguardia. The video shows factory farming it shows the harsh treatment our "food" goes through to get to our fridges. The dirty conditions that our food is in before it comes to us. I feel that the video helps to inform the students were interviewing what factory farming is what processed food is and also gives them a dose of reality when they watch the video, makes them open their eyes the way it made me open my eyes.
Friday, October 21, 2011
The End Of Overeating
Kessler goes into detail about the significance between sweets and fats is to drugs."The breaking point at which the animals will no longer work for the reward, she told me, is slightly lower than the breaking point for cocaine (Kessler, Chap.6, page.31)." this quote shows that sweets fats many food products are addictive like drugs can be. this quote is very important because it shows us the reader that processed food although artificial is bad for us and if we banned drugs we can ban sweets and fats. many people in America are obese and they are obese because they eat a lot of sweets and fats they are addicted to certain foods that are unhealthy for them. food is obese peoples drug.
Monday, October 3, 2011
CONTRADICTION
In the book Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, chapter 8 describes the slaughterhouses. Throughput is fast speed labor but fast is dangerous. there is a contradiction that Schlosser assumes that the slaughterhouse companies assume they call themselves safe but we don't know if that is fact. this is fast speed labor Schlosser writes "today some plants slaughter up to 400 cattle an hour"(Schlosser 173). we know for a fact that this throughput labor has its flaws with injuries at this speed. I would say that this corporation does own up to the injuries and they don't hide it. Schlosser is contradicting that the slaughterhouse companies are calling themselves safe but it is never stated that the slaughterhouse's call themselves safe.
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