Chapter 9

At the end of this chapter it talked about how the cleanliness of the food was in the workers hands. I agree with this. If the have the nicest slaughter houses, the cleanest packing plants, and the healthiest meat, it can still be infected by the workers. At one part it said some boys were putting spit, urine, and cleaning supplies in Burger King's hamburgers for eight months. Spit and urine can contain bacteria and they are gross, but it won't kill you. You can someones saliva when you kiss them it isn't that bad, but cleaning supplies can actually make you very ill, especially Bleach (which it said they were putting in there). That can kill someone. The stupidity of people amazes me.

Chapter 8

Chapter 8 was just horrible. I feel like the chapters are getting more and more gruesome and immoral as the book goes on. The fact that he listed and described the ways people have died there just made my stomach churn and I am not easily disgusted. The people described in here don't seem human. I feel like people just aren't that mean, and no one can not care that much. It's like the meat industry is having their own private Holocaust. Also, that the people are being intimidated in to being horrible people just makes me wonder how much money do you have to get before a person is no longer a person, and now just profit. These men and women are being treated in such a way that nothing on this Earth should ever be treated. People are getting their limbs torn off, and the people in charge don't bat an eye. It makes me wonder how these people are at home and if their family know what they are doing at work. If their family does know, why aren't they doing anything to stop it. Are people just that cruel now a days where a human life mean less then a couple of dollars. This just sickens me, and I hope the book gets better.

Chapter 7

This chapter really disgusted me how horribly people can act, and treat fellow human beings. The way these companies are treating their workers just horrifies me. Also, I was shocked to find out how many companies ConAgra owns so I looked it up and there are things on there that I didn't expect like Healthy Choice and David's Seeds. These companies always seemed fairly healthy. The turn over rate in these companies also surprised me because I knew it was a bad job, but I didn't think that they were intentionally making so their workers don't get insurance. Especially with all of the injuries that happen. Last, the fact that they threatened to move so they could better taxes, and when they did they moved anyways made me mad. The fact that these immoral companies are feeding us everyday, and are in charge of our wellbeing scares me. I don't think they should be trusted with that responsibility

Chapter 6

In chapter 6 they mostly talk about the beef and poultry industry. They also talk about ranches, and how the American image of a cowboy is fading away into the image of big cities, technology, and hollywood. A part the really struck me was "Hank died in 1998. He took his own life the week before Christmas. He was forty-three." This part affected me because a 43 year old man took his life because of the stress. Though he seemed perfectly fine when Schlosser went to see him just the previous year. Ranching seems to be a care free life style, but in truth it has a lot of stress that comes with it. The book even says that the suicide rate is three times higher then the national average. There are many things in this chapter that caught my attention, but this struck me the most.

AP Classport

Kayleigh Boulter and I went to Baldwin Park for our Classport. We both live in Deer Run and we noticed a big difference.

First, Baldwin Park was kind of curved around a lake and then had a park in front of it. I also noticed that there were different layers to it. First it was the lake, then the park, next shops and restaurants, and last houses. It all looked to same as well. All the houses were the same structure only different colors. All of the shops looked the same. There was no variety. In most neighborhoods you would see many different kinds of houses. They are usually similar, but have some structural differences.

Second, the fact that there is shops and restaurants in a neighborhood is different. The most my neighborhood has is a 7-11 convenient store, but there, there was many different places to buy food, even a Publix. There were mexican restaurants, sushi restaurants, and even a chocolate store. We interviewed a women from a pet store there and one of the questions we asked her was "Are most of the stores family owned or corporate chains?" and she said that most stores were family owned and that they try to promote the other stores in Baldwin Park.

Third, we interviewed someone that we knew that lives there. We asked her if she liked it more than the other areas she as lived, and she said that it was the best place she ever lived. We found that when we went it was very convenient to walk around, there was even many bikers riding about. There was also benches to sit if you wanted to. It seemed to me like one giant park with stores and houses in it. In my neighborhood it is a big 3 mile ring that takes about 15 minutes to bike from one side to the other. I also noticed that people new each other and were connected through the neighborhood. In Deer Run no one really knows each other, and if you do it's not because you were being a friendly neighbor and went over to say "Hello!". It is usually because you met them some other way and just so happened to be in the same neighborhood.

All in all I found Baldwin Park and very nice little town were you can shop, eat, go to school, and live, and have it all we in walking distance.

Chapter 5

When Schlosser said just some of the ingredients that go into the artificial strawberry flavor for Burger King's strawberry milkshake I was astounded that so many chemicals go into this one flavor. He named over 45 chemicals that go into this one thing. When they could have just used actual strawberries to get an even better flavor, they have decided to have us fill ourselves with unnatural chemicals. It disgusts me how bad this "delicious"food is for us, yet some people eat it every day knowing it's horrible for them.

Introduction

"Americans now, spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines newspapers, videos and recorded music - combined" I had no clue that our dependence on fast food was this bad. These sentences shocked me. I occasionally have fast food when my parents don't feel like cooking, but I thought that we weren't spending that much. Our life style has be come so controlled by fast food and we don't even know it.