Blog #11: Blog Blog Blog

I never saw myself as someone who blogged and I was hesitant to start, but blogging has grown on me. Blogging gave me the ability to express myself and to take problems I have in real life or thoughts I have toward something I have read or seen. You have no clue how easy it was to vent about my work and that is what this blog allowed me to do. It gave me an opportunity to talk to people who don't me and it gave them a peek into my life. Some days I came home from a long day at work and I did not want to blog because I was tired, but I knew I needed to post something for everyone to see every once in while, so no one thinks suddenly went missing or something. Blogging allowed me to expand my horizons and write to a different audience because the only audience I have had was my teachers or my families. Blogging is very useful because it gives opinions of people and people can post things that make you think about things. Blogging gives you an open mind about things and just some place to relate to others or to disagree with others. Blogging is a great thing for people especially students to get their work across without the instructor constantly telling them what to write or how to write it. In my opinion more teachers should use blogging for their students. And this blog is just my life in progress.

Blog Entry:EC Food Inc.

Do you ever sit there and think about where that burger you just shoved in your came from? When you're eating out you don't really care where something came from, but as long as it taste good, then you'll be content. Recently I was watching this documentary on Netflix called, Food Inc. and it was details about factory farming and what goes on there. One of the first details the film gave was about where putting factory into business came from and it was the McDonald brothers. They got rid of the drive in dining and just hired a bunch of people to do one thing at a time and pay minimum pay. From there everything became a factory item and big companies such Tyson take advantage of it especially with problem like chicken. Companies like Tyson own up to 80% of the food market when it comes to meat. They want to buy things for under market price to sell for an affordable price an people like that. They want things to buy for cheap so the dollar menu is cheaper than anything organic and obesity is seen as personal choice even though the worst things for us our so much cheaper. "Buy from companies that treat animals, workers and the environment with respect." The video will make you cringe like I did because the treatment of animals is awful because they want to make as much money as possible. That leads to treating the farmers with no respect and only paying them $18,000 a year. People need to know what is going on. It took me 20 years to open my eyes and realize what is going on. And I feel ashamed for that. People need to do something because it is right what all these companies are doing in order to make money. You can't engineer food because that defeats the natural purpose of life or the circle of life for animals. It is inhumane to make a chicken grow in half the time by feeding it hormones to make reproduction faster. This video has made me feeling upset and wanting to do something differently. I know I need to change things in my life and be more conscious of what I am eating and where I am getting my food. I most like will steer clear of Tyson products and maybe anyway from meat in general for a while.

Entry #10 Pointless Fame

Do you ever realize how many people nowadays get famous for no reason whatsoever. They put one video up online and they go viral, soon enough Ellen DeGeneres or Dr. Phil has them on their show and praising them. Everyone knows of the girl who went on Dr. Phil with an attitude and anger problem. She called the audience a bunch of "hoes" and told them to "Catch me Outside, How Bout Dat?" She blew up on the internet with a bunch of memes, she was featured in a music video and there are even news/magazine articles with updates on her life. Like who cares? She is now getting all this internet fame and does she really deserve it? The answer is a hard no.

Another family that got pointless fame is the Kardashians. Don't get me wrong, I love watching "Keeping up with the Kardashians" and I have kept up with Kylie and Kendall Jenner on social media accounts, but they definitely didn't earn their fame. Everyone knows them from when their father Robert Kardashian was the lawyer for O.J. during his trial. Then Kim Kardashian did some adult filming with singer Ray J and the rest is history. Some of them have eared their fame now that they're older like Kendall and her modeling, but none of them would be known if it weren't for Kim.

So many people are handed fame and success in life for no reason, but like some of the Kardashians, they actually do something with their handed fame and make someone out of themselves.

Entry#9: Fast Food Fresh

Does anyone ever think about what would happen if you left a fast food meal out for a certain amount of time without touching it. Well I read an article earlier this week that dealt with a McDonalds happy meal being left out for six years without being touched and nothing at all changed. The meal looked as if someone just left it out that day and it just turned cold. There was no mold, or change of look to the food. Imagine giving that to your five year old son. That is what people are feeding their children. I know sometimes it may be easier to just stop at a drive through, but things like this or when you break apart the Taco Bell ground beef, you can literally see pieces of cardboard mixed in. A happy meal for a kid didn't rot and it was chicken nuggets which should of went bad or had some kind of odor, but nothing happened. The amount of artificial ingredients being put in these food is why they don't rot. This test just shows that people should be putting better things in their body and they should be feeding their kids more natural foods.

Entry#8: Post Depression

There is always a post depression during this time of the year because football season has ended and will not begin for another six months. The only thing to watch is the only sports where Arizona has the worst teams for. At least when football season is around, there are teams like the Broncos that people can root for and not worry about being the laughing stock of the league. Even the Cardinals aren't doing the greatest, they don't compare to the losing streaks the Suns and Diamondbacks have going for themselves. If I remember correctly the Diamondbacks were the third worst team in the nation last year. Arizona sport suck, so it forces people to root for other teams. I have been a Denver Bronco fan since I little since I was born in Wyoming and most people in Wyoming go for whatever team is closest to them, so my dads' side of family happen to choose the Broncos, so it has stuck with me. Denver has won three Super bowls including last years Super Bowl 50. So until next season, all I can focus on is the trades and free agents in the NFL, until I can watch my team win again.

Entry#7: Fresh

Do you ever think about what goes on inside that medium rare steak or what it would take to make a change in your eating habits. I recently had the opportunity to watch a documentary film called "Fresh." The film went over industrial farming and how animals are treated in industrial farming systems. Human bodies are made to eat meat, but the living conditions of the animals and the amount of chemicals given to each animal is inhumane. Even some farmers feed some cows dead cows which causes disease like Mad Cow. Most people know that animal cruelty happen, but unless someone physically watches an animal get slaughtered or how they are forcing thousands on thousands of cows, chickens, pigs, etc. to be withheld into a small space while they are injected with multiple chemicals, it is definitely an eye opener. It honestly made me think about what exactly I am putting in my body. Like I said humans were meant to eat meat, our bodies were meant to do it, but being conscious of what is going into our bodies is so important. This has a lot to with the treatment of animals. I know this is something people won't change over night, but it would be a lot better for us and the animals.

Entry#6 Server Life 2.0

Let me tell you I could go on and on about life of being a server. I know I raged on tipping last week, but this week it is all about how the guests act. There are so many different people seen everyday while serving and there is times when there are mess ups from the server like everyone in life we all make mistakes but to sit there and yell or mistreat the server for that is beyond my understanding. For example, this last week I was bartending and this guy who comes in a lot and drinks the same wine(yeah a biker guy who drinks wine, so masculine, I know) and we happen to sell a lot that wine that weekend and we were out of it still. So he walks up and asks if we had any of the wine he drinks and the answer was no, so he proceeded to say some rude comments and then he said " this wine has been out since Friday night, it is starting to feel personal, I should just go to Zipps." Like I hope you know that threating to go to another restaurant wont hurt me at all. Actually I am glad you are leaving, and I hope you permanently choose to go to Zipps. Another favorite for servers is when someone or a table act like they are the only table in the restaurant , so they take their sweet time to order and they are constantly waving to get the servers attention. People have slowly lost their manners since thank you is barely said or people snap their fingers to get the servers attention. Like no one likes to be snapped at or have someone point in their face, so what makes that different for someone serving you? Or when the server is talking to another table, that does not give the guest the right to interrupt them or come up and talk to them while they are serving or talking to another table, like that is so insanely rude. Another thing is the menu is there to guide guests, and the servers is there to help if there are any additional questions, not to read the whole menu to you. And when asked certain questions such as " would you like your baked potato loaded, with butter or sours cream, plain?" The answer is not "yes." Like yes what? If given three options, yes is not one of them. Working in the food industry the realization of how awful and selfish people can be comes up a lot, trust me you meet a lot of good people during the journey, but it can also suck a lot too.

P. S Always remember to tip properly!