Food Inc: How The Food is Made

Spider-Man toy along with a happy meal

When I was in 4th grade all I ever wanted to eat was happy meals. Yeah, the food was good but I was in it for the cool little toy you'd get after buying the meal. I was excited to get the toy that I'd completely forgotten about the food and how it was made.

In the documentary film Food Inc. viewers were taken on a fieldtrip showing the truth behind the making of happy meals.

When McDonald's first began, it was a regular restaurant. In the 1950s every restaurant was basically the same. McDonald's served food by having waitresses on roller skates. The owner decided to cut cost so they created a new way to produce food at a faster pace. McDonald's introduced the factory way of making food. 8 out of 10 hamburger patties are controlled by four major name brands that produce beef. The name brands such as Tyson and Purdue have labeled their food as farmer this and barns and beautiful green grassy areas when really the chickens are grown in crowded chicken homes and are thrown into the factory to be made into the food we eat today. The chickens that we eat are different from the chickens we used to eat back in the 1950s. Two major differences between the chickens are that the breasts are much larger because that's what sells. Also they grow up at a faster in less time meaning that more chickens are produced and more money goes into the chicken growers pocket. Vince Edwards, the chicken grower working for Tyson wasn't given permission to have let the cameramen inside the chicken houses. The reason for this was because the chickens aren't being treated how they should be. They are crowded and get little to no sunlight and sit in their own poop most the time.

About 3 out of 10 farm fields in the United States are used to grow corn and the government plays a part in making corn the most grown crop because everything we consume is made of corn so if we have too much corn we can sell it for cheaper meaning we can feed our pigs and cows corn, our animals will get bigger and the companies didn't waste a lot of money on feeding the animals they then kill and then we eat. So basicly corn is everywhere, it's in your ketchup, jelly, coka cola, and even in batteries and diapers. Cows were not made to eat corn though. Although the corn makes them fat and meatier the cows end up with a disease called E.Coli that is an acid resistant virus that is harmful to humans and can kill us.

Kevin Kowalcyk died in 2001 because of eating ground beef. The ground beef was contaminated with E.Coli and everyone felt the government was responsible because the FDA is responsible to make sure the food is safe for the world to eat. In 1972 50,000 food safety inspections were made but in 2006 only 9,164 food safety inspections were made. That meant the companies didn't have to keep their factories sanitary and could add anything they want in the beef. One additive the companies used to get rid of the E.Coli was ammonia hydroxide.

Fast food is the cheapest kind of food along with chips and soda because they use a lot of corn so they are cheap to produce and are ready when you need it. The cheap corn products like fast food connect the diabetes and obesity and being poor because well the food is really cheap so anyone can afford it. It leads to diabetes and obesity because the corn used to feed the cows is in the burger you eat and so it's like you ate the corn in the first place and the factories see everything they do as okay and sanitary. While the people who grow chickens and cows the way we imagine they are suppose to be grown the CEOs see this as unsanitary because they are in open air. The big meat packingplants get their workers such as poor whites, poor blacks, illegal immigrants and basicly anyone who come from far far away because they cost less.

Speaking of costs, when you add up all the enviormental cost, the health cost, and every other cost the companies take to make your food it adds up to more than what you pay for. Food corporations are protected by laws these laws are passed and come to be because the industries can manipulate the government and use them to their advantage. These laws aren't in the best interests of our families because of they keep this up soon they won't be inspecting the meat we consume. They will keep feeding the animals corn instead of the grass they are suppose to be eatting.

Birth of Tycoons

The most important aspect of carnegie's life in my opinion was his rags to riches story because that made him into the person he was. He worked as a secretary for Pennsylvania railroad and he was offered a chance to buy stock. He convinced his mother to sell their home in order to buy it. He risked everything in order to buy the stock he was offered.

JP Morgan

The tycoons consisted Rockefeller, Morgan, Vanaerbilt, and Carnegie. These men achieved wealth by finding new cheaper ways to produce a product and tired new machines. Some business strategies used by tycoons are: encouraging competition, attract talent workers by great pay and benefits, as well as trying new ideas. They also did illegal things such as fix prices and get rid of the competition.
A robber baron are people who established monopolies and began to raise prices and began reducing the wages of workers.

Rockefellerr 

Passive house poem

Passive house poem

The passive home is massive.

It keeps us warm.

Much like the sun. 

It is oh so fun.

summary of the tech reading

In the document compiled by Danny Blas explains how technology changed in the community due to comunication, transportation, and space. We need technology because without it we wouldn't have the marvelous things we have today such as the  3D printer. What made the industrial revolution possible was free enterprise. Free enterprise was very important because where able to invest their money allowing for our economy to expand. With the U.S. having a large amount of natural resources one of these resources was crude oil. Steel is used to improve our designs for our structures and allows for new structures to be made. To conclude the industrial revolution was important because it made the U.S. the strongest wealthiest country in the world.

Industrial revolution

Nikola Tesla (Thomas Edison's ex-worker and rival) was a marvelous inventor and receives little to no credit on his inventions or work.

The Erie canal was a man made canal and it was significant to the U.S. because it was used to transport goods.
Free enterprise is the freedom to own a private business without government regulations. An entrepreneur is a person who is a business man who is seeking profit. They were important because they literally generate wealth. They literally generate wealth, while existing companies only redistribute their wealth, entrepreneurs, by starting a new company, they introduce new sources of wealth into their economy; first by creating new services and products people can buy and second by providing jobs for people who need them. 
Crude oil is the single most important resource that the U.S. had to help them turn themselves into an industrial worldwide power.
Black gold was significant because oil is used for everything such as machines that produce goods that can be sold to other countries. 
Steel was manufactured using the Bessmer process, which involved injecting air into molten iron to remove impurities. 
Buildings changed and improved because William Le Baron Jenner designed the first skyscraper with a steel frame that led to many more steel frame buildings.

Remote control boat used by Nikola Tesla credited as the birth of Robotics.

GE Aviation is located in Cincinnati, Ohio and this place is historical because it's where the wright brothers did there airplane testing and it is also the birthplace of aviation.
Subtractive is when you take away from the metal while additive is when you put the parts on other parts reducing leftover materials and now your making less parts.
Direct Metal Laser Melting is when Laser melts together powdered metal until the design is fully grown. They make turbines more durable and make smaller lighter parts.
in my opinon this new industrial revolution is changing how we view things for example, instead of having a lot of big strong people we can  now have regular creative people working machines that'll make parts by simply typing in what you want. This saves money and space.

Nikola Tesla's blade-less centripetal flow turbine.

Recording a New Nation

The first president of the United States was George Washington. The reason he is such a historical figure was because he is sometimes referred to as the hero of the revolution and this lead his presidency. He is the only president to ever be chosen unanimously by his people.

George Washington came up with a system of advisors much like a king, except they were called the cabinet. Two people in his cabinet at the time where Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. These two great minds thought differently, they only wanted what they thought was best for the people. 

Thomas Jefferson wanted a local government and a limited national government while Alexander Hamilton wanted concentrated power in the federal government. 

I believe it is okay to disagree but not be disagreeable. This means that just disagreeing without listening to the other side of the argument is unacceptable because if you dont listen to what the other person has to say you could end up looking like a fool. 

If I were president of the U.S. I would rather have my cabinet disagree constantly than have my cabinet agree all the time. The reason for this is because then I can listen thoroughly to what everyone has to say and I could come up with a compromise that makes everyone happy to a certain extent.

The Civil War

The north and the south were different for many reasons, for example they had different religious and cultural views which meant they had different views on what they thought was right. They also had different ways in which they made money. The north had factories and were industrial while the south grew crops.

California was involved in the Civil War because this new state made a new constitution that didn't allow slavery and this made southerners angry because that meant that more that half of the United States believed that slavery should be abolished.

The fugitive slave law stated that alleged fugitive slaves were not entitled to a trail by jury and anyone helping slaves escape were entitled to pay a 1000 dollar fine and were placed in jail for up to 6 months. The south supported this law because this prevented people from attempting to help runaway slaves.

The Dred Scott case was about how an owner of a slave named Dred Scott took him from Missouri(a slave state) to Illinois then to Wisconsin. Dred Scott appealed to supreme court and stated he was a freeman, but the 5th amendment protected property and slaves were considered property. Northerners were outraged by the supreme's court decision and showered the court with insults.

The John Brown plan was that people seized the federal arsenal and to start a rebellion. He had hopes that people would see this as a chance to fight to abolish slavery and that people would help Brown and his abolitionist keep the federal arsenal, but instead everyone was killed and brown was charged with treason and hanged for his crimes.

What happen during the succession of the south was that the North began to hear rumors of the south's succession. At first South Carolina succeed December 20, 1860, Mississippi later followed and the rest of the southern states began to succeed. The confederate unanimously elects Jefferson Davis as president.