BLOG ENTRY #5

I have found the book very interested, knowledgeable and also opened my eyes to know things are not seem the way they are. There are so many things that grabbed my attention but to find out how the fast food restaurants are using the young people is very unfairly. They have paid less and work hard with no benefits. And also using them as a target because the have found out that young people are more attractive and they have no or less responsibilities.And to see there are no efforts made by the government to address the issue it seems unfairly.

Schlosser has talked about " Throughput" (page 67, 2e paragraph) a girl named  " Elisa a sixteen years old girl, bright-eyed and very pretty wore a McDonald uniform ready to go for the day" according to Schlosser that young girl is a hard worker but less payed.  from my personal experience; I have a friend a very young friend she's a McDonald worker, she works from six am in the morning until twelve midnight. Her paycheck is nothing compare to other people. I think that the young people deserve better,  They deserve encouragement while they put themselves in the line to try to have a better lives they should be recompensed for their efforts not for someone to cheat them. schlosser has addressed those issues by talking about the sixteen year old girl. The other issue beside not well paid injuries are so commons, and compensated but for those young people it is a failure if they ever got hurt they have to pay for their medical expensive. Because those industries like Mc Donald,  KFC, Bugger King, don't provide any medical benefits for their employers. Which i have found so rare for a  big industry like Mc Donald claimed to be our trusted friend, and making Billions of a dollar a year. 

I think the community has a big role to play in these issues, make their voice heard and encourage our young people to go to school to educate themselves to have a better live and a good pay job. This book opened my eyes about a lot of controversies and gave me a lot of knowledges about what is going on behind the door of the big industries. Not only about the issues of the young people also about their foods and their products, I hope this book could be more reachable for other people to have access to read it and know what is going on.

                                
                                For this blog I have chosen to talk about "VALUE"

 "VALUE" what is the meaning of the "value" Something valued is something that either worth money or times, something very important to you or someone else. For some people something valuable can be money, goods, or objects what so ever, for me personally life is the most valuable thing ever,and family. I say life and family  those are two things you cannot trade or exchange. Your success in life is depended on your family, if you have a bag childhood it is more likely for you to be failed in the future. People can be rich and still struggle in life, either they feel lonely, and even kill themselves because they didn't know how to love themselves, to be grateful for every deep-breath they have taken in their live. Either they were abused as a child or didn't have a mother or a father to love them and to show them the value of life, to love them and for them to be loved. And also for me life is something irreplaceable, something precious, more valuable than anything else. Everything we are doing is because we have life, we see for some people is a curse. Is again they don't know what love is like, to love themselves their environment weren't great.  That's the reason I said family is the most valuable thing in life. The love you get from your family will follow you through the rest of your life, that love you cannot trade it or exchange it.

According to a research, Life satisfaction can reflect experiences that have affected a person in a positive way. These experiences have the ability to motivate people to pursue and reach their goals There are two emotion that may affect how people perceive their lives .Hope and optimist both consist of cognitive processes that are usually oriented towards the reaching of goals and the perception of those goals. Additionally, optimism is linked to higher life satisfaction whereas pessimism is related to symptoms in depression. The Satisfaction with Life Scale  is a single scale that is used by UNESCO, the CIA, the New Economics Foundation, the WHO, the Veenhoven Database, the Latinbarometer, the Afrobarometer, and the UNHDR to measure how one views his or her self-esteem, well-being and overall happiness with life. Previous modeling showed that positive views and life satisfaction were completely mediated by the concept of self-esteem, and the different way ideas and events are perceived by people. Several studies found that self-esteem plays a definite role in influencing life satisfaction. There is also a homeostatic model that also supports these findings. One's mood and outlook on life can also influence one's own perception of their life satisfaction.

I always encourage people to appreciate the gift of a family and life, be grateful and thankful. because some people will do anything for those two things. I love my family and I thank GOD everyday for it, and I will do anything to keep my family together, to protect them, cherish them and make sure I give them the love I got from my parents. I teach them everyday the value of live what is it to alive, to  be able to go places, see the world, do some kind of things. I do because I want them to be succeed in life and love others.

                                                           
                                                           Fast Food Nation

 

 Is a book written by Eric Schlosser, in the book the author talks about how fast food came to life and where it came from, the ideas behind it and where it will end up to. the ideas of the book is to inform people about the fast food; it came from people that have no or little knowledge, and the ideas behind are to drag people; young and adults, kids and teenagers to mastermind them, make them feel like they are their best friends just to make millions. According to the author the fast food companies are using teenager as waitress because they are more attractive, easy to manipulated and they are cheap. they fast food also claimed that they are cheap, easy to get because they are in every place. Is the fast food really cheap and are the fast food companies really making a crime by using the young people and make them work for less than the labor recommended?

 

 

According to the author "Eric Schlosser" in his introduction say how the fast food has made its apparitions, surprisingly as astronomy; a periodic one into the nation and suddenly it became the most wanted. The fast food now is in every single places; in schools, the hospitals, the cornet stores, the hotels and motels, the army, the prisons even in the churches. people used to cook, got fresh herbs from the garden in the backyard; vegetables, fruits and eat fresh foods everyday instead they are using food already made. People are getting spoiled over fast food because they claimed is fast, easy to get and cheat. Without them knowing where the food came from who prepared them, did that person has got the proper training to prepare the food what kind ingredients they have used did they follow the FDA policies. People are careless when it came to fast food, here what happened in a fast food restaurant in 2010.

 

 

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 21-year-old female left a Burger King drive-through and became sick after taking a bit out of her sandwich. She went back to the store to complain, but began having seizures and was rushed to the hospital. At the same restaurant, Ernest McHenry had just sat down to eat his Burger King fish sandwich when he found a blue pill wedged in the bun when he removed it to add some salt and pepper. He immediately showed everyone what he had found. The pill turned out to be hydrocodone. Police would later arrest Woody Duclos, a Burger King employee, and charge him with poisoning food with intent to kill or injure a person. They would also arrest his co-worker, Bryant Jones, for selling him the drugs. Police believe Duclos poisoned the food because he was pissed about a recent suspension for misconduct. From my experiences the fast food is like a drug injected to people’s brain make them feel as home when they are in a fast food place. No hygienic role they eat with dirties hands and the employers sometime using the same gloves over and over.  

 

Fast food is not cheap it a fact it will be cheaper to cook at home than buy cheap food. And I think the fast food industry is targeting young people not only use them by not pay them the fairly wage. But to attract the small population which is the children. The fast food industry is a treat in our society, against our families and children that should be addressed. I have seen so many children over weight those children wouldn't eat anything than a big Mac, somehow they have seen it in TV commercial or places. I was so surprised to see fast food commercial all over pre-school this is killing us, the trick is to make them familiar with the children. And, the other thing now the fast food is doing put toys in the food packages to master mind the kids. I think the government has to have more controls over the fast food industries, limited their commercials and encourage the kids to eat healthy food to help the overweight disasters we having right now. lowers the tax on organic food, put more taxes on fast food industry feed the children fresh food instead of fast food. As they are doing right now to protect the planet against the global warming fast food is a second global warning against the nation.

 

 help  protect our children and our nation by feeding then the proper food not fast food!

“Now you can buy a Happy Meal at the Happiest Place on Earth.”

This chapter begins with a panorama of the Ray A. Kroc museum. Schlosser emphasizes the “Disneyesque tone” of the museum. The author’s goal is to draw parallels between the two corporations and their founders:

• Both Ray Kroc and Walt Disney were born in Illinois and born one year apart.
• They served together in the same World War I ambulance corps.
• They both left the midwest for southern California, where they played integral roles in two American industries.
• Both leaders dropped out of high school, yet added “formal education” style schools to their companies..
• Schlosser notes that more than being great businessmen and entrepreneurs, both men were“masterful salesmen.” They figured out how to market their companies well to children.

Ray Kroc’s name to fame came while selling milk-shake mixers in 1954 in San Bernardino, California. The McDonald’s brothers were two of Kroc’s biggest customers. Their McDonald’s Self-Service Restaurant used Kroc’s unit that could make five milkshakes at once. Kroc was amazed by their self-service system and envisioned the expansion of the restaurant around the country. However, the brothers were less ambitious and content with their current success. They had no wish to travel elsewhere. Kroc convinced them to sell him the right to franchise the restaurant nationwide.
After an agreement was settled, Kroc reached out to Disney to see if there was an opportunity for McDonald’s in the Disneyland Development. Kroc had high hopes, but his proposal went nowhere. Disney’s company progressed much more quickly than McDonald’s and served as an example for Kroc.
Meanwhile, Walt Disney founded the marketing strategy known as synergy. He allowed other companies to use Disney-licensed characters, like Mickey, with their products and advertisements. Later on, Kroc used similar techniques to expand his franchise.
During the Baby Boom era, Kroc wanted to market the restaurant to families and create a safe All-American place for children. In 1960, one McDonald’s franchise cleverly sponsored Bozo’s Circus, a local television show in the Washington D.C. area. The clown’s appearance in the restaurant often drew large crowds, eventually leading to the creation of McDonald’s own Ronald McDonald clown. Kroc added Playlands “playgrounds” to the franchises to increase kid and family appeal.
Next, Schlosser discusses how companies began to market to children in the 1980s. The fast food industry created promotional partnerships with toy manufacturers to gain more customers. The idea was give away simple toys with children’s meals and sell fancier ones at a discount. Kids would encourage their parents to take them frequently so that they can collect the entire set being advertised on TV. In 1996, Disney signed a ten-year marketing deal with McDonald’s and achieved synergy between the two companies.
Schlosser also discusses McDonald’s “Trusted Friend” campaign, which attempted to make consumers feel that the restaurant truly cares about them. The company wanted parents to feel like they are being good parents when they take them to McDonald’s.

The last section of the chapter discusses how fast food has been incorporated into schools. Many fast food chains have offered finances to needy schools in exchange for advertising and marketing of their products throughout the school. Schlosser says most school advertising campaigns are “subtle.” He cites a 1998 study that found that teaching materials provided by Consumers Union contained slanted information that favored the sponsor's product or views.

                                                   



                                                          THE FOUNDING FATHERS

The main ideas in this Chapter is to inform the nation about fast food, to give people an idea about  the original of fast food where it has started and where it can lead, trick the fast food owner used to get people buy their foods, and the role they play in both young  and adults. Hire young people because they are easy to target and cheap.

It was the idea of a young man name's Carl born in 1917 in Sandusky Ohio, dropped out of school with no education or knowledge about business. He was a hard worker worked twelve hours a day as a farmer, fed animals offered a job by his uncle in California. After a conclusion with his family he has decided to move to California and felt in love with it.

California is a tropical state where so many plant can grow, because of its climate Carl thought it was a better place for him to leave and do business. There was a lot of activities going on there, movements like; the wineries, the farms were fructuous, they were a lot of jobs there. Soon to came the War 1 stared and three months after the war 1 people from the Midwest and everything got mixed up. The new people arrived stared protest about their faiths and changed the face of California for ever.

Carl's uncle was the owner of a karcher's and seed food store right in the middle of the central down town of Anaheim Carl got more hours work selling goods to the local farmers. During the Sunday he met a beautiful lady asked her to go out who later became his wife and the mother of his twelve children. Carl moved back to his home town "Ohio", got an highest paid job and started his family. Carl worked as a delivery man he was happy to see how the hotdogs business are well progressed. And soon heard that the hotdogs car were for  sale he decided to buy it, borrowed money from the bank of America and had his wife Margaret to give $15 more to complete the amount asked for the car. Carl  hired two people an order for him to keep his job, he became so successful and bought many more cars.

 

California became the largest population after the war #2 business has gone so well, the automobile industries are making monies , the  transportations are now became more affordable people can move around much easy. The motels and the restaurants are making business hired teenagers with no hourly wages taken advantage of them to fill the pockets, now fast food are became more needed because people are being too lazy to cook and walked around.

 

Fast food started to spread throughout all the nation, by 1944 Carl owned four hot dogs carts in los Angeles and still worked full time job for the Armstrong Bakery. Carl have heard a restaurant across the street was on sale he decided to buy it he bought it and fixed it. On his twenty-eight birthday he opened a Drive in Barbeque January 16, 1945. Carl and his wife Margaret has taken over the business together everything was going well for them they brought a house five blocks away from their restaurant.

 

 The fast food is everywhere ; the church, street, motes. hotels just gone wild. and later got in the schools here something called hamburger taken the road. the McDonald started to attracted everyone, putting up the gamy thing people were so exited to see the great improvement. Children are out of control the one and only thing they have dreamed of is McDonald. The McDonald hamburger has became so famous drove people crazy and anxious they couldn't live without it and Carl came from the hard and successful man and became the most owed man.

 

                                           THE MEANING OF FOOD IN MY LIFE



Food is any nourishing substance that is eaten, drunk , or taking into the body to sustain life, provide energy promote growth etc.. it is became more important in our lives that we cannot live without it. It
is very difficult for a person to stay for one without food to show the important of food. As an Caribbean woman I have learned how cook took and I have taught to eat at home. In my table you will  probably see a plate like this one.

It's mandatory for my family to eat together, seating around the table talk to one and other , telling each other what is going one in our lives, stories, make fun on each other. In our culture the Sundays meals are very important to us and no one couldn't miss it and it has to be home made. I cook a lot almost everyday for my family to make sure they eat well and healthy.

I'm not comfortable eating food in the street I'm not a fan of fast food neither my family, that was the way we are raised "to cook at home". I used to work in the food industry every time I came home I have to make sure I cook and no outside food come in to the house. My family will look at me and say you better watch what you're putting in your mouth because you're getting fat.  I weighted 129 pounds but for them to discourage me from eating food from my work they will tell me you're getting fat.For some society they see fat as a blessing parts of my country are like that but for others is curse I think for my family is a curse.

Food means a lot to me it means health, happiness, blessing etc.. but the kind you're eaten could mean something else. I think food can also helps you growth in many different ways and it can also kill you. for example the cheapest food, the street made food, and some restaurants, even the hotels any places that served food can be also a danger or a benefit to your life. Depended where or who's preparing it. For example months ago I want to a fish market I bought some fishes when I got into my house me and my son both of us got a stomachache I fund out it was from the fish we ate.

 I always encouraged people to cook at home not because it is healthy you're preparing your own food but you're also known what's in it. It is also a good thing for family to seat together and eat a food that they are feel free and safe to eat. I love cooking and for my family there is nothing more important than seat around the table and eat home made food together.

                                        

                                                       Is the America's food supply safe?

According to the article," is the America's food supply safe"  written by Dr. David Acheson; the assistant commissioner for food protection and drug administration. David Acheson has stated that the F.D.A has done everything to keep the America's food safe, by closely monitoring the food processing and other aspects concerning food. put all resources available; inspections, prevent contaminations, by hired investigators whom working hard to protect the incoming food from all over the world. although all the efforts have been done to protect the food, Is the food still safe?

the is a picture of company processing chicken. Tyson Foods is recalling 33,840 pounds of mechanically separated chicken products that may be contaminated with Salmonella Heidelberg, according to the U.S. ... I believed the F.D.A has done  a lot to keep the America's food safe and also the Government, but I don't think they really have all the control the should have. Because people not only bought contaminated food they also brought them here, they are travelled all over the world. Using the air cars caring food either to a luggage or under the plans, do the F.D.A has controls over those foods the answer is probably. If they got caught yes if not they got away with it, for example; months ago I saw in the news that UPS has found a box that was supposed to deliver to someone in the USA from China. The package contained dry meats after examined the meats they were full with bacteria Salmonella, and other deadly bacteria. Imagined that if those meats weren't found it would cost a lot of live.

 

 

 

 

The government should put in place more measures to keep the food safe for example; watch closely every single food come in from everywhere, have control of the port entries, every single way people used to transport or travel. I have no doubt the F.D.A has done a lot but I don't think they have done  enough.

 

 

 From what I have seen and heard so far I don't think the America's food is safe. Either in the restaurants, the markets, or the food pantries. They have a lot to do, warning people about the danger in foods, make it affordable for people to buy good and healthy foods instead of cheap and fast food. Encourage people to cook and eat at home, ask them to check on the label, for expiration's date etc... food poisoning has killed thousand and thousands people already in the USA and the F.D.A kept argue the food is safe in the  USA. Yes, I think the food is safe but not safe enough there is more to be done by the food administration.