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.