::Chew on This:: - Response 3

Reading this book Chew on This, has been a great learning experience for me. I have learned so much from it, even stuff that I kind of didn’t really want to know since I was quite disgusted by some of things discussed in the book like how pink, red, and purple artificial coloring is made from a six-legged bug. Ew. Gross. Another thing was how the cows, chickens, and pigs are fed fattening foods and live in unhealthy and cramped spaces and are slaughtered in the most repulsive way. Speaking of the slaughter of cows, chickens, and pigs, that brings me to my topic. My two sub-topics are, how cows and chickens are slaughtered, and how the dirty working conditions in the slaughterhouse affect our health.
For research, I’m finding it a bit hard to get at least one book, sine so many people are doing this project, all the books on this topic, which aren’t a lot, at the library are all checked out. Especially Fast Food Nation, I hope that I can find at least one book to help me in my research, but now, it seems highly unlikely. Now the only things I can use are articles and things like that from the library’s electronic library.

::Chew on This:: - Response 2

We finished reading The Secret of the Fires chapter in the book Chew on This. I think that it is really disrespectful of the McDonald’s companies to have lied to the Jains like that. They completely defied their religion, and even when they asked if there was any beef in the French fries, the McDonald’s business men still lied to the Jains. I just think that it was really disrespectful and not very thoughtful of the people running the company. Another topic that was discussed in the chapter was how pink food coloring was made. Even though I already read that section of the book before, I still thought that it was pretty disgusting. The food coloring came from a bug called Dactylopius coccus costa. It is used to make a chemical called carmine, which is the typical pink food coloring. Yesh. Quite disgusting.

Another topic was how babies acquired their taste from their mother/parents quite young…even before they were born. I didn’t know that they could acquire their favorite tastes when they were still in their mother’s womb. One of the formulas that scientists made babies taste was cereal mixed in carrot juice. Personally, since I have never tasted carrot juice in my life, and since I usually eat my cereal with milk, I think it’s a bit gross. That is an example of acquired tastes.

We read a different chapter before, and one of the subtopics was called mcunions. It talked about these two boys trying to fight for their right to be able to be paid the right amount of money that they worked hard to earn for by working at McDonalds. At McDonalds, your salary is based on your work evaluation. Pascal had worked very very hard, and was often praised by the managers. Yet he still received an average grade, so he wasn’t paid as much as he was supposed to be paid. When he formed a union, at the last minute, the McDonalds that he worked at suddenly hired another 24 people, making the signatures for the union invalid. In order to form a full work union, you need to get at least more than half of worker’s signatures. That last minute addition of workers was unfair, and after a long process, Pascal and his friend Maxime, finally won out their cause.

-the following is not part of the blog=
-Ms. Orlando, in science we are starting to read the “Meat” chapter in Chew on This. Can we also talk about what we read in science as part of our blog? Or can we only write things on what we read in language arts?

::Chew on This:: - Response 1

I actually really wanted to talk about my own topic that I am doing for Chew on This, but we can only talk about what we read during class before….so im going to have to talk about that. The main topics that we hav read about in class, are The Pioneers, The Youngster Business, and McJobs. After reading The Youngster Business, I actually wasn’t that much surprised by how the business people aim for young kids to advertise to. I remember that one of the days that we were reading that topic, Mr. Cellini came in. After listening to us read for a few pages, he said something to us. He said that if you went inside a store, and bent down to about a five year-old’s point of view, see what types of things would be put there. I didn’t really know that at first, until Mr. Cellini told me.

In the topic of The Pioneers, it mentioned the main people that helped the general idea of fast food, particularly McDonald’s. The few important people who were mentioned, were people like Ray Kroc, and Richard and Maurice McDonald. The person who invented the hamburger, was a person named Charlie Nagreen. Harland Sanders started KFC, and he is on the buckets of chicken and many things that are associated with the fast food chain KFC.

I can’t wait until we finish reading this book in class. It’s got to be sometime before May 13….but at this rate…I’m not that sure about finishing the book by then…
Well, if we read both in Science and Language Arts from now on…I guess we will be okay =3. Plus, when we finish the book, and we have another blog, then I can talk about my topic xD. Well, with all this fast food business going on, I hope it can be resolved soon, and not have so much bad and unhealthy stuff about it. Help the world, and the people >ahem< us humans, and even animals, live healthier lives. =)