Blog 18: "2-dollar Camisole"

In the article, " The 2$ Camisole: How cheap is ruining our lives" by Mary Elizabeth Williams discusses about how the price for something material is important. She explains

Blog 17: Reflection on Blogging

Blog 16: The New Industrial Migrants

Part I

          In the first passage "The New Industrial Migrants" from Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser is telling readers that young men and women from Mexico, Central America, and Southeast Asia starting going to Colorado for work. The meatpacking jobs offers poor wages and theres always a replacement of employees. "The average worker quits or was fired every three months." Alot of the workers do not speak English and most of them are Mexican immigrants. Its told health insurance is given after six months on the job and vacation pay after a year, but most of the workers never get that vacation.


Part II

         In the second reading of  "The New Industrial Migrants" from Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser explains  how the company realized that immigrants work for lower wages than AAmerican citizens and they are unwilling to join unions. Most of all meatpacking workers are illegal immigrants. One meatpacking executive joked " If they got a pulse well take an application.".

Blog 15

The link to the Greenmarket Farmers Market website is very interesting. What interested me the most is the large amount of farmers there are and they joined the Greenmarket farmers market to help "promote regional agriculture by providing small family farms the opportunity to sell their locally grown, caught, foraged and baked products directly to consumers, and to ensure that ALL New Yorkers have access to the freshest, most nutritious locally grown food the region has to offer." This program provides healthy, fresh and local food for all New Yorkers, they grow and take care of community gardens, help New Yorkers to recycle more and to reduce waste. The website provides information about environmental education, they work with young people to show them to learn about it, grow it and eat it. I like that it provides a calender for what fruits and vegetables are available throughout the year. This website is very useful.

Blog 14: Ideas for Improving My Performance in the CATW.

Need a good summary, short, in my own words.

Blog 13: CATW # 5: How to Do One Thing at a Time

The authors most important ideas in "How to Do One Thing at a Time" by Nancy Jones of the women's health magazine is knowing multi-tasking is harmful, doing two things at once isn't as good as focusing on one thing so it can be good.
      Talking on the phone while driving is a dumb idea. Even if you have a blue tooth or some kind of ear piece, it is distracting. Driving and talking is a multi-task that is harmful, not only to yourself but others around you. Driving needs full attention and if you are talking, your mind is on the topic you are talking about and not where you are headed. I seen my mother do it all the time. She receives a phone call while driving and answers it using an earpiece, yes, but she ends up missing a turn or going in the wrong way. It could be anything, like getting into a car accident, so its best to just concentrate on where you are going always and not do anything else that will distract you. "A tremendous amount of evidence shows that the brain does better when its performing task in sequence rather than all at once" says Clifford Nass a professor of communication at Stanford university. Earlier I read a passage by Sherry Turkle, a professor from MIT and she says how in many of her interviews children say their parents will pick them up, but their parents would be stuck on their blackberry stuff. I can relate because my mom ignores anyone if she is on her phone. Driving and talking on the phone is not a good thing, you are ignoring whats around you.

Blog 12: Response to Michael Pollan's advice on how to eat healthier

How Can People Eat Something That Can 

Never Go Bad?

       Makes me wonder whats in it. Whatever it is, it may taste good, but its not good for anyone's health.


I didn't read Micheal Pollan book, but very interested and will look into finding it. The professor stated the tips Micheal Pollan gives in his book In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan gives tips to eat better like to cook, plant a garden so you can have fresh vegetables, herbs and fruits available always. Eat slowly, eat compete meals at the table. He suggest if you go to the supermarket to stay out of the middle and stay to the walls. Most supermarkets are set up the same way and all the fresh foods are located at the walls of the supermarket and the processed foods at the middle of supermarket. He also suggest to not eat anything you great grandmother wouldn't recognized as food.
I agree with all of Micheal Pollan advice he suggest in his book In Defense of Food. I learned Twinkies don't go bad. He suggest to not eat anything that's not capable of rotting. I am very aware of everything i eat and for my health and happy to say i do most of his tips. Its not hard to better everything you eat. I would recommend these tips to friends and the book.

Blog 11: CATW #4

             In "Let Them Eat Fat", Critser discusses how fast food and national restaurants been criticized by nutritionist and dietitians. Fast food places have gotten more aggressive in getting the poor inner city community by making the food available fast and cheap. Because of the poor and wanting cheap meals outside of their home, fast food companies developed a sales gimmick known as "super sizing".

            After reading this article, I think people should not consume a super sized meal. Super sizing is very popular in the fast food chain know as McDonald's. " The total caloric content of a meal has been jacked up from 680 calories to more than 1,340 calories ".Customers are encouraged to "super size you meal!" Customers are thinking they are getting a good deal. Its not good to consume large amounts of food without knowing what you are going to intake into you body. Fast food inst good for any ones health. Nutritionist and dietitians criticize the fast food chains and try to educate the people who consume it most, the poor.

              I no longer consume a lot of fast food, I try to make healthy meals at home. Its not always best to buy cheap food that taste good because its most likely not good for you. Eating fast food is very poor in protein but rich in fat and carbohydrates, not the good stuff to be eating. I have observed that fast food places have choices of healthy meals and each meal is given its total caloric content, its all about what the people choose to consume.