::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?