Final Essay Draft 2

Learning about food gave me another point of view on the things we eat on a daily basis. People put pretty pictures of farms and cows and bottles of milk and meat to make it look real nice. But after learning about food I have found out what really goes on on these farms. Animals do not get treated nice they get treated like shit, they are put into small cages in a small place where they can barley move and the way they kill the animals are really cruel. People just put cute pictures on dairy products to make the people that buys the food think that the animals they are killing are coming from a clean place and being treated well but they are really not. They also give the animals hormones so they can produce more food and that is not good for the animals, they also feed animals blood from animals that died. Getting to learn this made me more of the things I eat but I would not change things I eat because I was raise to eat certain things so I got use to it and think it would be hard for me to change my eating habits.

All the topics we learned about this year was very interesting to me because I got to learn about things I never thought I would be able to find out. Also learning these things made me more aware to what is really going on in the world and the secrets are and who does not about the secrets. Also the people being affected by these little things and have no clue if they are in danger or not.

Final Essay

The American way of life has a lot of different views on seeing things. The way I look at it is that the way they manipulate people to look at the things in the way they want to works on a lot of people because they think the government is always right and they can never go wrong. In some ways I do look at it like that because as long as it is keeping me safe and as long as I am living it does not affect me. But learning more about it this year showed me that there are a lot of wrong things going on that the government is not telling the citizens. By not telling us can cause a lot of chaos because when it gets to the public some how the citizens would start to panic and it can also cause a crash. 

For example during the health care unit we were watching a documentary and a black man needed surgery to make him healthy again and all he need was for the health care to approve the surgery so he could stay alive. But they declined it and he end up dying because he never got the surgery and one of the people working for the health insurance that declined his surgery came out and said that the real reason why they declined his surgery was because he was black. After seeing that I could not believe things are still base on the color of your skin and the kind of background you have. I think that people are still doing that because all they are doing is keeping hate in the world and not trying to bring peace and by doing that is just bringing more unnecessary conflict to the world.

During the birth unit we learn two different types of births and they are natural and normal. A natural birth is a home birth with a mid-wife and a normal birth is a birth in the hospital. A natural birth does not include the mother taking drugs. What I found out about drugs that most people do not know about drugs is that when they take it. It can affect the baby and by affecting the baby I mean by it makes their heart beat, beat faster and it by doing that it can kill the baby. I do not think it is right that they do not tell the mothers how the drugs can affect the baby and it is a possibility it can kill the baby.  I think if people more aware about what the drugs can do it probably would have affect on the usage of drugs during a normal birth and that affect would be mothers would not use drugs that much anymore.

collapse #2

The American way of life is confusing because we do not know what we want our what we need. The reason I say this is because we use some thing that we do not even need or we get things that has no point in our life. Watching the video crude awakening showed me different points on how America is taking a down fall and we are not aware of it. The main down fall that might happen to us is running out of oil and not having no oil to generate most of the things that we use now.

For example threw out the whole world our population is 3% and United States alone uses 25% of oil and I think thats crazy because we are using almost ten times the percent of the population. Also since most of the things we use rely on energy or gas I think sooner or later America would run out of oil and can not energize any thing that we use. If that was to happen that would be the biggest collapse that would in America.

With oil being one main thing that can collapse it is just adding on to all the problems we already have. For example we are still in a war and we now we are in a recession and all that can lead to big collapse because we are loosing a lot of money and still spending money on a meaningless war. That can also lead to a collapse because we are losing money then we would not be able to buy food or even get oil to energize some the things we use. 

collapse #1

Easter island is a weird place where some things look good and some things look bad. There is some history people do not know about it and it was located in the southeastern and how they figure out the name was kind of crazy because they found it on easter so they named easter island. On the island they have lots of statues that look the same and they were put into rows of mostly 15.

The polynesian people are different because they did not have resources like we did and we did things differently. We did things with less time but the polynesian people took their time to be more accurate. We use machines that take up so much space and needs so much electricity and oil. The polynesian can not afford to use machines and they do not have enough tools so they use their brain to get most of their work done.

Final Food Assignment

In our recent topic on food, we learned much more about where our food came from than what we knew before. In America we have a law that is for animals and how we are suppose to treat them the we would like to be treated. But what most people do not know about the food they eat is where it came from on what kind of condition that animal was in before it got killed to make into meat and fill their stomachs. They also do no know if that meat they were eating came from a healthy animal or not. The truth is that most animals that are killed to make humans food are not treated the right way. They are either beat or killed because they do no follow the living conditions that they are suppose to based the "farm" they are in. The people that run these animal factories do no treat the animals they are suppose to, for example in a video I recently watch on animal cruelty it shows how three main animals are treated (cows, chickens & pigs). The things they put the animals through are horrible, like the chickens for example they put them all in small cages with each other and clip their beaks so that they would not be able to peck and kill each other. Putting the chickens into the small cages are not healthy for them because they are not able to stretch their muscles and that makes them weak. They also put hundreds of chickens into a place where it is hard for the to walk around and they get no sun light and when they feed them it is not shared out separately it is just thrown around into one area. By doing that only certain chickens get food and some will get more than the other and some would die of starvation. What do to the cows is a bit similar to the chickens but for the cows they auction them off to other farms and they even auction off the calves. On the way to auctions they put all the cows in the back of the van and with not enough room to move they cows step on each other and end up killing other cows. Most of the times some of the cows are not able to walk because as soon as they are born they send to to auction off and stuff them into the van and not able to stretch their muscles which make their legs weak. Even if they are weak and can not barely walk people still slaughter them and make them into meat and sell them to different companies and that is how some of the meat we eat are unhealthy. What they do to cows that is also horrible while they alive they cut off their balls and cut their horns and the reason they do that is because they do not want the animals fighting or mating to produce more calves unless they want them to and they also cut their tails off. In order for the female cows to produce more milk they give them RBGH and it is a drug hormone. Also at birth they take the calves away from their mothers and feed them the blood from a dead cow and that causes more animal disease. For the pigs they are a putting into their own small cage and they are not able to move at all. So when a mother pig is giving birth it is hard for her to put her body into a comfortable position so that makes the birth painful for her. Also once the baby is born they take them away from their mother clip their ears and cut off their tails, because they pigs are put into such a small cage it is hard for them to move their muscles and make it stronger so sometimes they legs swollen they are on able to walk. What the people do that run the factories do because the pigs legs are over grown they take the pigs by their hind legs and slam their heads on the floor until they are dead and for some of the weak pigs what they do to keep them a live they give them antibiotics and that also cause animal disease also. With these conditions that people put these animals through show how bad animal cruelty is and how they do no follow the law on how animals should not be treated humane and some people that eat meat need to be aware where they meat comes from and research the situation that the animals are in so they can be aware what is going on in the United States. From watching the animal cruelty video and being more aware on what is going on with the animals makes me second think about eating meat but because I grew up eating like that it would be hard for me to adjust my eating styles and eat less meat than I do now. Also I think that the government steps in and try to make the conditions better I think that the meat that will be produce would be more healthier and people would not have to worry about their meat carrying diseases and be in a much more healthier environment. If you would like to see some of the conditions that the animals are in here is a animal cruelty video showing how the people treat the animals and how their living conditions are. (http://www.chooseveg.com/animal-cruelty.asp)

Industrial Food 2

I watched the animal cruelty video and I was really surprised by the things they did to the animals. The one part that really got me was when they showed how the people grabbed the pigs by their hind legs and slam them head first into the concrete floor. I felt real bad just watching them do that to the pigs. You can look at the video and tell the that all the animals they haven locked up in the cages look sick because their skin color looks paler than usual and most of them can barely walk because they a put into a small area where they can keep their muscles active to make them stronger. Also how it is crazy how they take the new borns and clip their ears and cut off their tails and don't give them any pain killers to make the pain go away faster it just shows how some humans feel about animals. I think the government should look more into how these factories are run because you can really tell that the government doesn't have a clue wats going because in the United States we are against animal cruelty and the things that they are doing in the factories is way over board. If the U.S. is allowing this then it goes against their whole beliefs on cruelty to animals.

Industrial Food

I watched the Meatrix video and I was surprise with some of the things I saw and how it happens. What the video is trying to let you know is that the people that runs the factories, they care more about profit than their own workers safety. For example in the video the boss made the machine speed up and as that happened the cow manor was getting on the other meat and he didn't seem to care about that. That is showing that there is a possibility that we are eating meat with cow manor inside and the boss wouldn't care because overall he is getting paid to provide the meat and that is al he wants is the money. It also shows how the cows that die, they take their blood and feed it to the baby calves and that causes mad cow disease. That is bad because feeding the baby calves dead cows blood will process through out their whole body and one day those baby calves would start to provide food for us and some that provide the food may have mad cow disease and it would get into our food and that is how most humans get food poisoning. Also that is a way swine flu started because they said the whole cause of it is the people that own pigs do not clean the pigs surroundings and it creates the disease and it gets into the air and the human start to catch it. I think if people  were more aware on how they run the factories or how they take care of their animals then I think it would be a bigger reduce in all these animal diseases that are going around and all the food poisoning people are getting.