Tuesday, March 31, 2015
I Want My Own Food Garden
Thoughts on Food Inc.
Not only does the treatment of animals make me angry, but just the industry itself. I was really shocked when these companies were suing people for basically giving them bad publicity. It just doesn't make any sense to me, because I am pretty sure our freedom of speech should protect us from this kind of stuff. I would understand if they were suing because the person was telling a lie, but it most of the cases they were telling the truth.
FOOD
I know I don't eat the most healthy diet, but I didn't realize how bad it was. In fact I still don't even know the extent of the harm I put upon myself. I would like to eat healthy, but truthfully it's hard to fit in "healthy eating" to my lifestyle. My parents and myself don't have time to cook a healthy meal. In fact I don't even think my parents realize what they have been putting in their bodies...
This post is one big mess, but I think it's understandable. Here are the points I want to be made know:
1. Animals and plants should be taken care of wisely.
2. Farmers deserve to be treated better and the government should quit heavily supporting bad food companies.
3. Americans and people all over the world should be more educated on the matter of food.
The End.
8 Reason Why You Should Not Eat Mcdonalds
2) They are cruel to animals.
3) The food is unhealthy for humans.
4) It's bad for the environment
5) McDonalds processes about 500,000 pounds per day.
6) One hamburger patty is made from more than 1 cow.
7) A chicken sandwich will give you 2/3 of the recommended daily amount of sodium.
8)If you eat fries, a big mac and drink a super sized coke you would have to walk for 7 hours straight to burn it off.
"15 Reasons to Never Let Anyone You Love Near a McDonalds." EcoSalon. 22 Oct. 2008. Web. 1 Apr. 2015.
If you still want to eat McDonalds after reading this then just remember you're contributing to the loss of our forest, supporting obesity, and are okay with animal cruelty. I personally hate McDonalds ever since the 9th grade I watched the movie "Super Size Me" in health class and I never ate from there again. One part of the movie that really got to me was when the lady showed her burger that she saved from 1996 and it looked the exact same from when she bought it. The beef didn't rot and the bread didn't mold. Their would have to be some kind of chemical in the burger for it not to rot at all. It just isn't right, for it to look the exact same.
Food Crisis
Food Politics
When we where watching Food Inc., the movie made me very sad and mad. But most of the time I was very mad at the way they treated and abused the animals. Yes I have heard about the industrialization of food and how it grosses you out, but afterwards people still eat it because the food looks normal to them when they see it in the market. The thing I don't understand is why do we have to rely on these food so much that it is causing problems? Why do people agrees with these things? In general it is because of people's greediness for money and that no matter what people create these pesticides for the better when really it is for the worse. Since our economy is in bad shape people rely on these things for their own good. With that there are more problems then before because we don't care and that people are so impatient with technology, so it makes these industrialization rely on speed then good result. So basically all this food politic is getting me really mad.
Monday, March 30, 2015
the root of the issue.
I almost did my research paper on the topic of why we humans need to get back to eating more plants. See the way it worked in nature before we developed farming, early humans ate what they could find and hunt for. so they didn't have meat to eat every night, they had plants. Berries, fruits, roots, edible leaves, wild vegetables, ect. They would go hunting but not always catch something or they would have to share it with their family groups or tribes or whatever. so the amount of meat they ate was minimal, on the other hand, the amount of plants they ate was substantial. Now however they is so much meat that we could, in fact, eat only meat if we chose to. There is so much that stores even have to throw some away because they can't always sell it all. Maybe if we cut down on the amount of meat we produce, we would have fewer problems.
Have you ever seen an obese vegetarian? I sure haven't. I'm sure there is one somewhere but I have yet to lay eyes on him or her. The way I see it is that fruits and vegetables can give us the nutrients we need in exchange for some of the meat we eat, and at the same time giving us essential fiber, vitamins and minerals. Now I am not an advocate of giving up meat. In fact I just had steak for dinner on Sunday. However I do think cutting down on portion sizes and replacing that meat with vegetables and fruits would go a long way in helping to reduce the issues that go along with commercial cattle farming and all the rest of it. And if you get hungry quicker after your meals, then shoot, eat an apple.
The Cause of All of Our Problems
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Veggie Libel Laws
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
The Politics of Food
Wendell Berry says that the politics of food involves our freedom of choice, that it is important for us to still have choices. But what are we to do when our freedom of choice is taken away from us? What are we to do about all the terrible things that companies in the food industry do to animals just for the sake of producing food cheaper and quicker? How can we change everything that is wrong with the way that we eat?
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
AF: Food Politics Resources
Look at the research database, Proquest. When you access from home, your username/password is bellflower/bellflower. If that doesn't work, try capitalizing Bellflower. You are looking for SIRS Knowledge Source --> SIRS Issue Researcher --> Food and Nutrition or Food Safety.
Try Google Scholar.
Look at the "Chew on This" series at TED.
Look at a national magazine like The Atlantic Monthly, and search for "food." Try this at the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
AF: The Annotated Bibliography
The payoff: if you do a good job with this, the substance of your paper will be pretty well figured out. That's a huge chunk.
Here is a document to look at.
Here's an explanation on the Purdue OWL.
Note that the examples at the Purdue OWL have summaries that are several paragraphs long.
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Friday, March 6, 2015
Thursday, March 5, 2015
yeeeah
I believe that some day a woman will be able to go out in daylight or darkness without the fear of being called out. I have faith that some day there will be no racism or stereotyping.
I don't know why I have so much faith in these things but I do. I read in Vicky's post how Nelson Mandela said that people were taught to hate, so they can be taught to love, and I hold that same theory. I don't know if the world will ever be perfect, but I can start a change within myself. I, like many others, am guilty of making a comment based on the stereotype of another, but I will try my best not to do so any longer. We all should make an effort that begins within ourselves.
Gender Struggle
The Pregnancy Project
Feminism Rant
Response to Honor Code
I found it in me
Born this way?
BBP#2
Brooke’s Blog Post #1
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Phylosophe
Indirectness vs Directness
"A Girl LIke Me"
"We fear what we don't know."
This movie was based on a true story.
How is it possible that people can be so evil? I will never understand why people feel the need to put someone else down and cause them harm just because they are different.
I have grown up around homosexuals my whole life, and to be honest, I see absolutely no significant difference between a homosexual and a heterosexual. The only difference is that they like different genders. That's all. Yet people want to shame and shun them just because they like different genders? Just because they like different genders.
Although cases might not be as extreme as the unfortunate one of Gwen, things like this still happen.
What do you guys think is necessary in order for there to be change in this world as far as gender roles and the lgbt community ?
Silence to Speech
Racial Division
a population within a species that is distinct in some way, especially a subspecies.
a group of people descended from a common ancestor.
ancestry.
"Your silence will never protect you."
Discrimination Against Women in Advertisement
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Is it a big deal??
I didn't know if it was supposed to be seen as an insult, classification, or just a joke. Nonetheless, I wasn't sure if I should be offended or if "white" people should be offended. I, along with them, have been stereotyped. I have been classified as a "white girl in an Asian body" because I held attributes that may or may not correspond to a certain culture. I am a cheerleader who enjoys listening to country music, drinking Starbucks, and wearing Uggs. Sometimes I say "like" too often or speak in a certain way...but I didn't know that these certain habits could be used in a way to identify who I was.
Anyways, so what I was trying to get at was the question of is this okay? Is this okay to take certain habits and activities and pin them to a race or culture? Also...is this supposed to be offensive or just trends and jokes?
Ernestine Johnson
Gender Culture
Why there is division in everything?
I ask this question of why there is division in everything because that is the world we are basically living in. That they made this division to show us the difference between men and women. But since we are so diverse and very democratic in this country the gap is still there but many things are being proved wrong and changed. I like how they describe the use of different speaking towards us because it got me to better understand why these languages exist. I don't like it because this country is exist to be equal and in the bible it says that too. So why can't we just accept each other and why do we have to be separate with each other instead of being together? Sometimes I wish none of this exist because it shows that one will always win while the other loses and that there will never be agreements towards each other because of this difference we have. That is why there is so much trouble because these debates in this world about who is better. Therefore it will be better if this idea doesn't exist.
Gender Expectations
**I hope this post made sense, I realize that I gave advice towards the end, but what the heck, this is a blog for thoughts and what not so there you go.
Gender equality
This unit
My Interpretation of "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action" PART TWO
Gender norms
When I read the article I learned that there is a difference between men and women. That this difference has caused the women to be judged negatively on the way they say things or express it. Since gender norm has a bigger effect on the women then men it has created this difference where the women use indirectness while men use directness. With this it shows who has more power in gender, language, and cultural. But what irritates me the most is why do we have to be judge so cruelly in the way we speak when involving gender norms? I just wish we can be more equal towards each other so there doesn't have to be this division in this world where we can't get along each other.