Prospectus

1. Introduce your topic and discuss its importance.

In my project i will mainly discuss about what really happens in animal farms. For example, many things go into maintaining a farm full of a diverse group of animals.  Sometimes the owners of these farms are not really aware of what happens to his/her animals because the only thing they care about is profit. This means that some of the animals go uncared and are ignored for many weeks at a time. Chickens, pigs and cows go through a lot of abuse in these farms since their owners just basically let them fend for themselves and most of the time whenever they try and help these animals they fear that this option is too expensive and fear it would ruin their income.

2. Introduce your questions and a working thesis.

Some of the questions that I can touch upon in my paper are, Where do these animals come from? What really happens behing closed doors in these farms? How are cattle raised at birth so that they can be killed? What are these animals fed? What happens if an animal is found with a disease? How much do farmers really care for these animals? How come some of these animals grow at a different rate than they did a few years ago?. Thesis- Farms are looked upon as regular family houses were animals are raised but over the years the concept of farming has immensely changed into a nightmare.

3. Discuss specific tools and sources that you will be using to conduct your research.

Some of the resources I will use are books, the internet, and different newspapers or magazine articles. Most of the reading I will focus on is books related to farm animals and books about the farming industry, an example of this book will be The ethics of what we eat by Peter Singer which some of the animal abuses are described. In the internet I can use many different databases. And Times magazine and New york times are also periodicals that can be useful for my project.

Problem Posing method

One of the many problems that I think are wrong this chapter on behalf of the fast food industry would be child labor. Elisa is a victim of this abuse and can only be described as abuse. Elisa Zamot works at a McDonald's that is located about 1/2 mile from her house. Every weekend the teenager wakes up at 5:15 am and heads to the shower, being completely done with her hair by 5:30. At times her mom drives her to work but other times she normally walks there. Once Elisa arrives at her job the door is opened by her manager, where she then steps in and starts to clean the store with her manager. After her long 7 hour shift Elisa heads home at around 7 o'clock tired and exhausted. A great quote that describes this problem can be found in pg. 68 half-way through the page the reader comes across two sentences that say "About two-thirds of the nation's fast food workers are under the age of twenty. Teenagers open the fast food outlets in the morning, close them at night, and keep them going all hours in between.", this quote represents the problem because it clearly mentions that teenagers are basically the ones who run fast food stores. I have had countless amounts of instances where I would walk into a fast food restaurant and get ready to order when I see the cashier's face it's actually a teenager about the same age as me. Many solutions have been tried to stop this exploitation of teenagers but these fast food chains always seem to get around it by seducing their employees with other tactics, one example being that instead of being paid money they are sometimes paid in food. A solution that, in my opinion, would put an end to this subject would be to make sure that all of the laws put forth are being exherted and applied by all of these food chains.

Response of Schlosser's fast food nation 1.2

Reading the second chapter of Schlosser's fast food nation i came to realize many historical between business giants that I could have never imagined happening. The book describes how Ray Kroc and the creator of Disney world, Walt Disney had many competitive issues. At first McDonald's started out like any other old regular hamburger place and slowly got recognized by many people and even went as far to attract the president of the United States. Many marketing plans were put to the test in order to attract more customers ie: the happy meal. McDonald's basically tried to bring in more customers by targeting children because if they attracted a kid their parents would buy their food and there would also be two extra customers. Children also tend to nag their parents about something they want until they get it and this is the case for McDonald's because their ad campaigns were solely focused for the attraction of kids as customers which is something that goes on today on a much larger scale. Also by making different contracts with different companies fast food places are able to promote their products in a more enticing way and one example would be a tamagotchi toy which at a certain time was included in a happy meal toy.

Descriptive writing assignment

Approaching the glass swivel doors a freckled red-headed girl greets me with an enormous smile. Walking inside is total change of ambience and vibe, all of the worries scatter through my head and all i can think of is which of all the items am i getting. Looking at the brightly lit diagrams showing the food i stare with a ponderous gaze. Seeing the huge machine behind the cash register with many buttons the soda is poured into a tall outlined paper cup. A brown plastic tray with a picture on it is handed to me with a refreshing pepsi soda with an aluminum surprise sitting beside it and golden fries to finish off the whole ideally utopian meal.

Descriptive writing assignment

Approaching the glass swivel doors a freckled red-headed girl greets me with an enormous smile. Walking inside is total change of ambience and vibe, all of the worries scatter through my head and all i can think of is which of all the items am i getting. Looking at the brightly lit diagrams showing the food i stare with a ponderous gaze. Seeing the huge machine behind the cash register with many buttons the soda is poured into a tall outlined paper cup. A brown plastic tray with a picture on it is handed to me with a refreshing pepsi soda with an aluminum surprise sitting beside it and golden fries to finish off the whole ideally utopian meal.

Citation

Grady, Denise. "The New York Times Log In." The New York Times - Breaking News,

World News & Multimedia. 6 Sept. 2010. Web. 20 Sept. 2010.

<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/science/07bpa.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1

&ref=science>.

In the article written by Denise Grady the troubled question of whether BPA is dangerous or not it clearly debated. BPA is a chemical found in many plastic household items such as water bottles, toys for babies, babies bottles etc. The main reason why this question is being more brought up now is basically because its been disregarded. BPA hasn’t been proven to harm any human yet so no one really knows whether it harmful to humans, however majority of Americans have BPA inside of them because of all the bottled liquids they drink. Senator Dianne Feinstein hopes to pass an amendment next week on the food safety bill hopefully banning the use of BPA on baby products, water bottles, cans etc.

Welcome to food ethics with jesus

Hey everyone,

     My name is Jesus Pichardo. I currently attend LaGuardia community college and I'm 17 years old. I live in Manhattan and plan to go to a 4 year institution after leaving LaGuardia. The essential reason why this blog was created is basically to talk about different food topics, habits, misconceptions etc. Some of my eating habits i consider to be very common in certain ways and it's also for a food ethics class. At home i don't cook or anything of that nature simply because i feel like it can be a waste of my time in a way if the result may be disastrous.

     However, shopping for groceries is something I do but it's not on a regular day basis. Whenever i do go to the supermarket by my house called Whole Foods I buy stuff other people would consider awkward for grocery shopping. I buy cookies, candy and different kinds of sweets but the store also does sell healthy food but I don't bury myself in those aisles. My favorite kind of food is fast food not one specific fast food because there are so many to choose from and most of the time i'm outside so it's close and real cheap.

     My only favorite food is Subway's and the reason why is because I can put anything i want on it. As of now I don't know much about where the food I eat comes from but I expect to learn as i move on in the course. Thanks for viewing.