Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Friday, January 9, 2015
After WW1
After the world war one, Americans were very afraid. They believed that the war was a terrible thing, and everyone besides Americans were terrible. They were scared of outsiders. They were also scared of becoming a communism country. This would make rich people very upset because they had to share their money with everyone.
To relieve some of these fears, they became nativist. They only wanted to be around people who were classified "American." They also isolated themselves from other countries. This caused them to be racist. Since they were scared of becoming communist, they hunted people that they believed were apart of the communism party.
Americans had fears that related to the League of Nations. They had collective security vs. national soreignty. They did not want to deal with other countries. They had idealism vs. pragmatism. They wanted to force idealistic goals.
The goals of the communist were to create a economic and political system. They wanted create a single-party government ruled by the working class. They wanted to disribute wealth and party equally.
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To relieve some of these fears, they became nativist. They only wanted to be around people who were classified "American." They also isolated themselves from other countries. This caused them to be racist. Since they were scared of becoming communist, they hunted people that they believed were apart of the communism party.
Americans had fears that related to the League of Nations. They had collective security vs. national soreignty. They did not want to deal with other countries. They had idealism vs. pragmatism. They wanted to force idealistic goals.
The goals of the communist were to create a economic and political system. They wanted create a single-party government ruled by the working class. They wanted to disribute wealth and party equally.
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Monday, January 5, 2015
Food Inc.: How Happy Is Your Meal?
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In the documentary Food Inc., the truth is told about how McDonald's meat and vegetables is made and brought to our table.
During the 1950's, McDonalds and many other resturaunts were very similar. But one day, the owners of McDonalds wanted to cut down prices. They chose to create food by making it in the factories, which was a cheaper than making it in the farm. They had less workers now and they only gave them a little bit of money. This made McDonalds a very rich company. The suppliers of McDonalds meat changed as well. 8 of 10 hamburgers in America are owned by four companies that make their meat at factories.
If your mom or dad goes to by a pack of meat at the store, you will find a label on that package. You will see pictures of farms and a lot of grass. But these pictures are fake because these animals are not raised on farms but in factories. You can find these labels on dairy products as well. For example, chicken in 2014 look totally different from chickens in 1950. The chickens now are bigger and grow very fast. This couldn't be done on a farm. You are probably wondering why these companies don't just tell us the truth. When the movie makers of Food Inc. tried to interview Vince Edwards, a chicken grower from Tyson (a chicken company), he was not allowed to. Tyson does not want us to see the truth because they don't want us to stop buying their meat.
Did you know that 3 out of 10 grass areas in the United States is used to make corn? Corn is such a major crop in our country. I bet that you didn't know what syrup, coke and every batteries have corn inside of it. Our government wants to makes corn the most sold crop in the country. This is because they pay corn growers only if they can make more corn than other corn growers. This means that corn becomes very cheap, which is why they feed it to the animals we eat. This is why fast food is so cheap. Companies that sell a lot of meat want to be able to feed their animals cheap food. Cows are supposed to be eating grass, but because cow growers are so cheap, they feed them corn. This makes cows infected with E. Coli. If you eat a burger with E. Coli, you will become ill and it can kill you. In fact, a boy named Kevin Kowalcyk died from eating meat that had E. coli. The people in charge of our country, also known as the government, knew that E. coli was in the meat. They did not stop selling it for 27 days!
People that don't have a lot of money are living in proverty. Since these people don't have a lot of money, they eat at places that make unhealthy, fast food, such as McDonalds. They become sick or overweight but they cannot buy the medicine to make them better since they do not have the money.
Joel Salatin is a farmer that raises meat in a very clean way. He even feeds the meat grass. The government believes that his farm is dirty because he cuts the meat outside and it makes the air nasty. Large factories get most of their workers from Mexico and pay them very little money. Joel Salatin pays his workers fairly. Some people don't think its fair that fast food isn't honest about what's in our food. If you try to critize what these factories are doing on TV, you can go to jail.
The people who created Food Inc wants all of us to understand what goes on in these factories. Since big companies don't want to tell us the truth because they don't want to lose money, Food Inc decided to create a documentary about it.
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