post #4

This country is so obese, and obesity is the number one killer in the U.S. Why we choose to head into this crap creek any further, I honestly don't know. Well, as I was reading this book, I payed close attention, and it seemed to have answered my questions for what really goes on in the fast food industry, and why this country is so obese yet we still continue to behave this way and choose to make the same unhealthy decisions we have been making for a long time. It's pointless, to keep trying to inform this country what they're doing and why they choose to turn this country into the fat laughing stock of this country. #Even our children are morbidly obese, yet we still continue. You'll see, when you're on the hospital bed with an open chest and a tank of oxygen pumping oxygen into your lungs to make sure your still alive. The best part is, we are installing fast food joints in other countries around the world, even the third world countries. We're bringing the whole world down with us. They choose not to be informed about the consequences of their actions. I don't think I have to mention the animals in the conditions they're in. Poor pigs, cows, and chickens rolling around in their own feces, not even aware of what germs they and the factory workers who manage the packing are carrying. It's an endless fight against ignorance, you can't win, so let them learn the hard way.

Gold Post #2- Best Timed Writing

“America’s main streets and malls now boast the same Pizza Huts, Taco Bells, Gaps and Banana republics...” (pg. 5)

This quote and book in general reminds me of listening to The Savage Nation radio station with Dr. Michael Savage, because of the factual and biographic writing style by Carl N. Karcher. It also reminds me of the movies that we watched in P.E. last year about fast food companies and history. Movies such as “Supersize Me” and “Food Inc.”. The movies were all about fast food and factual based background information including facts, percentages, ratios and much more.

The book’s connection to “The Savage Nation” is through of which Michael Savage often speaks out about America’s fast food industries and the economical ties to society, government, businesses and such. Savage includes both positive and negative factors of these such companies.

Fast Food Nation begins by telling the background story of Carl Karcher; starting as a farmer boy who dropped out of school to work full time on the farm until he had enough money to buy his own hotdog stand as his first means of food business.

The book mostly focuses on fast food’s facts and history with small and big business and franchises. It as well includes how the human diet has changed more over the past 40 years then it has in the past 40,000 years or so.

What’s behind the shiny foil; What’s in between those two seeded buns- for real? Facts, number, opinions, truth, details, experiences, life stories, history and much more! Fast Food Nation’s information connects with many daily things we all listen to and learn about.

The reason that i chose the book fast food nations is because the cover of the book really caught my eye.It kind of made me wonder why would someone want to write about food that seems kind of fat. Then again i said that the author probably wanted the word to know what really gones on when the food goes into the markets, and the grocery stores, and so on.
The author of my book fast food nations which is Eric Schlosser born august 17 1959 is an american journalist.He is well known for investigative journalism such as his books, fast food nations , reefer madness, and chew on this which is a childrens book. Eric spent his childhood in los angeles california.His father is Herbert Schlosser, a former wall street lawyer who turned to broadcasting later in his career eventually became presidant of NBC in 1974.Eric appeared in an interview for the dvd of morgan spurlock's super size me. He made public appearance with robert kenner, and interviewed by Franny Armstrong in 2005 and is featured interviewee in her film Mclibel.
I think that the way knowing the truth about the american food is pretty crazy cause now i actually know what goes on before our food is being put into the grocery stores, markets, and so on.

Post#4: Critical Review/ Personal Reflection

This book amazed me in so many different ways. Such as how much a person could love their job, food, and nation as a fast food industry. Carl N. Karcher and the McDonalds brothers showed us many reasons why people enjoy our nation how it is and how they love to provide us with unhealthy food and service. During the story they did an interview/investigation on what kind of service and maintenance they provide in a fast food industry. First of all its very filthy, well most of them and their just a lack of use. If your comparing them to other food places in the world. They mostly higher people who really really desperately NEED the job and oh are there lots of those people in the world. Do you know why though? Most of the fast food places now and days provide health care insurance or something if you work there and alot of people need that. Especially with all the babies people are making. lol.

As I was talking about in one of my other posts, in the book they were also talking about how the book has changed american society or pretty much the world and made it more mature. Which I don't understand at all! I felt like they were trying to make a positive moral lesson from eating fast food. But really, there should be a negative outcome to the whole book and that should be STAY AWAY FROM FAST FOOD BECAUSE YOU ARE KILLING ANIMALS AND YOU WILL DIE! I'm not saying people should all go vegetarian but you should avoid fast food everyday. Eat some vegetables or something, do activities. Thats why you see so many overweighed people these days. Its kind of ridiculous if you ask me.

How does knowing the truth affect your behavior? I say the truth affects alot about you because you don't know whats coming. Sometimes it might just hit you and your whole mood will change. It all depends on what truth your actually saying. When it comes to the story, knowing the truth about fast food and where it all originated from and how it came about to be so popular, is quite interesting in a shocking way. You would never expect such a small town in a small business selling meat packaging would turn out to be the biggest fast food industry of all time! You would never imagine that to come about, would you? I would most definitely NOT recommend this book to anyone because its just sort of, a waste of time really. It's common sense. FAST FOOD IS BAD FOR YOU AND YOUR HEALTH!

Gold Post #1 ("my choice")

I chose to read Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser, because it seemed significantly interesting to me. One of his best quotes, in my opinion, is "If a grown man or woman wants to buy a bacon-double-cheeseburger with large fries and a chocolate shake, well, great, it's a free country. But the fast food chains shouldn't be allowed to spend millions of dollars advertising fatty, unsafe food for children."
Eric Schlosser is an American journalist who was born August 17, 1959 in Manhatten, New York. He spent his childhood in Los Angeles, California wit his fatehr who was a former Wall Street lawyer and later became president of NBC in 1974. Fast Food Nation takes place from roughly the early 1930's to present day.
I remember last year in P.E. when we watched movies such as "SuperSize Me" and "Fast Food, Inc", and learned about the fast food industries and their growth over time along with its tactics, tricks, buisness, founders and much more. It's been nearly a year since I have eaten food from ANY major fast food chain resteraunts such as McDonalds, KFC, Wendy's (etc). I have made this decision based on the ways I learned that they treat their animals and how unhealthy their addicting and life threatening food really is.
It came to my attention that commercials and advertisments for McDonalds (and other such chain fast food places) bend the truth to promote themselves, making promises or statements that may not be necesarily true. They don't lie neccessarily, as much as they just don't state the whole truth. In other words, they don't say everything. For instance, they say "made fresh every day", when really we see through the book (and common sense) that "made fresh" simply means taken out of the boxes and freezer storage and heated up ready to go. Did we really let ourselves think they made their food with love and smiles everyday because it's their passion? Well we shouldn't have, because it's not. Most employees there are working for minimum wage while they are stuggling to balance, failing or dropping out of school. They absolutely don't have smiles on their faces as they get up at the crack of dawn and serve in a greasy, disgusting kitchen while dealing with grumpy customers. Fast Food Nation drew me to read it because of facts like this and what I've been able to learn.
Thanks for reading. -Goldie Murray

creative writing #2

This thing that McDonald's has had going on for the last 70 years is really annoying me. Honestly, you wouldn't believe how bad it irks me. Everything on their menu and everything that they own begins with Mc infront of it. McChicken, McRib, McShake, McFries, McCheese, McEverything. I guarantee you, you can think of anything, and they can put a Mc infront of it. But that's not really the point here. Go behind the counter. Everything seems peachy king, but you should see where and how and who they get their meat supply from. The packing factories they get their meat from, will never be looked at the same. I was watching this documentary on fast food places and where they get their material from. It's just awful. They keep their cows and chickens in confined places, feed them corn (which they are not bred to eat), and they are covered in their own and other animal's feces. Not counting the germs the meat packing workers carry and the unsanitary conditions in the factories that are packing the meat. It's just awful man. Well that's it for tonight. Tune in next time.

Creative timed writing #1

Okay, so there is this guy named Carl N. Karcher, who is considered one of the fast food industry's pioneers. His story is that of the American dream. He basically started this fast food industry that we know today. Carl was born in 1917, on a farm near Upper Sandusky, Ohio. He was born to a German-Immigrant family, and had 6 brothers and sisters. His parents were both industrious workers, farmers, and devout Catholics. His father would say, "The harder you work, the luckier you become." He dropped out of the eighth grade, and worked 12 to 14 hours on his parent's farm. In 1937, Ben Karcher, offered him a job in Anaheim, California. He had never left the state of Ohio. He had seen the opportunities for jobs and to start his meat packing buisness in the state of California. He also came up with this drive thru idea, which allowed you to order what you want from the stand, and pick up from the next window. He didn't come up with it though, his collegues did. Then he became this multi millionaire.

post # 1

I chose to read this book because I'm quite curious about the way the fast food business operates. If so, I would like to get a much better understanding for how and why this nation runs on fast food. It seems very interesting and I also chose to read this book because I would also like to get a little "Behind the scenes" look at how these fast food restaurants get their supplies and who and where they get it from. I think it will probably be about the rise of fast food restaurants in the U.S. Maybe the origins of a very famous fast food place called McDonald's, a place that every one loves. I've wanted to know for quite some time.

I also chose to read this book because it seems like a good challenging book to read. I wanted to read this book because it seems like it's got a lot of facts about the fast food industry. I also wanted to see if they would provide any reasons for why us Americans (I say us because I just have to) are so freaking fat. It looks like a book that would point out the pros and cons of having fast food places in the U.S. I cant wait to see what's in store for this awesome looking book.

I think this book is going to be interesting.

My Selection Post1

Technically, I really didn't want to read this book this was like my fourth choice or not my choice at all. lol. I didn't want to read it because it was really long and their word print is a size 3 or something. But then again what book isn't gonna be long, right? The book is called Fast Food Nations and the author is Eric Schlosser who is an investigative journalist. It was written in 2001 and is about the local and global influence of the United States fast food industry. When I first got the book I read the introduction because I figured it would give me a good idea of what the book is going to be about. The introduction starts off with Eric talking about nature of American society and about the mountains and valleys. Just reading it doesn't sound like its going to be about fast food but that was a scene of where he grew up in. Thats where his fast food industry started. He began in the meat packing industry and then McDonalds. It sounds pretty boring to me though because just throughout the whole book its going to be talking about fast food, fast food, and more fast food. Even if it shows out the effects and maybe even the goods of fast food places, its still about FAST FOOD! When I was doing research for the book it basically just gave a summary about the whole book and what nt and I decided not to read it because it will just spoil the whole thing for me. There is no quote that the author came up himself but there is a quote that I think inspired him to write this book and it also starts off the book before the introduction. It is, "A savage servility slides by on grease," by Robert Lowell who is a poet and the founder of the confessional poetry movement. This book takes place in a farm at first and then expands to industries in the city. Probably the only part so far int he story that drew me to it was the intro because it was pretty much laid out about what the book is about and a little bit of how it effects us now and what not.
-Kayla Santiago

Connective Timed Writing Post2

Quotation "This is a book about fast food, the values it embodies, and the world it has made."

This book I find very interesting because I used to watch a whole bunch of movies last year on how to stay fit and about how they would brudally murder animals to make meat yada yada yada. Then this year I'm actually reading a book about what its doing to our world and where it all came from and how it has impacted us as a whole. So far in the story, Jim Hightower reviewed emerging fast food industry as a threat to independent buisness and demanded to do something about it. Then they start talking about on page three how fast food has taken over the world nation wide and made BIG people. This story so far reminds me of the movie Super Size Me. I say this because in that movie a guy sees how fast people grow as they keep eating fast food. Hes a really in shape guy and he wants to do a project on where he eats only McDonalds for a couple weeks or months and sees what happens to him. After eating McDonalds for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, everything about him changes. Physically, mentally, and emotionally. When the whole process of the project is over with he then starts to work out everyday and become healthy once again. He then starts talking about why so many people in his opinion eat fast food restaurants. Our economyt is going down hill when it comes to money and the only thing people can afford now and days to feed their whole family including themselves is a most likely a fast food place . For example McDonalds, A large drink, a huge burger, and fries would cost you a little over five dollars. If you went to another place to get lets say salad, it would cost you around seven dollars or so. Since were all having money issues we would all probably go with the McDonalds meal. If it were me I would get the McDonalds but don't eat the fries or the buns on the burger. Sounds funny but people will do anything to eat and stay healthy at the same time and this book isn't talking about ways you can stay fit and healthy while eating at fast food places. Its talking about how fast food places originated from, how much money do these fast food places make, how it has expanded nation wide and what is the effect from it all.
-Kayla Santiago

Connective Timed Writing Post1

Quotation "They perfected the art of selling things to children," page 33

Why should we fall for fast food advertisements? It just pursuades us into wanting crap. They start to sell t-shirts, pants, dolls, robes, mouse pads, lunch boxes, etc. It makes us interested but for what? The whole concept of it doesn't make sense. On page thirty-one and thirty-two, it talks about about how they just advertise all these things just to be on top of the pyramid as in to be the best and in some cases it is working and in others it is not.
Why should we give our money to something that isn't worth it? First of all its not healthy. Second some people just like the buisness because of the stuff that they sell that is everything except their food. They come up with these crazy, random characters to represent their company to get children to be interested, but most kids are actually scared of the characters.
Why should we even care about fast food especially at this time? We should actually be using all the fast food places to create places that are actually healthier to eat. Have you seen our society? Yea its not looking that good, AT ALL. We have people getting bigger and bigger by the second. Its not a bad thing but don't you want our society to be looking good in shape? Yea thought so.
But as I said in my other connective writing our economy is going so bad as for money that we have no other place to eat except these fast food places. Even when you go to the grocery store, you can buy atleast 10 doughnuts or a little bag of salad. Which would you pick? Some stuff just doesn't make any sense at all in our society anymore.
-Kayla Santiago

Quote

"A savage servility slides by on grease"
                                          - Robert Lowell