Food inc: Truth in Food

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Animals you can find in farms.

  Happy Meal toys from McDonald's drive kids to their restaurants When I was in 4th grade, McDonald's Happy Meals were my life. The food was good, but the reason why my mom was dragged to the restaurant was because of the special toys hidden deep down within those bright-red boxes. Throughout my childhood years I failed to realize the main purpose of the excitement that waited for me inside those boxes.

  In the documentary film Food Inc., viewers were taken on a field trip, showing us the truth on how our Happy Meals are made and how McDonald's' food eventually get inside of us.

When McDonald's first began, it was a regular restaurant. In the 1950's, restaurants were all very similar, and McDonald's had food delivery on roller skates. One day the owners decided to cut costs and created a new process. This new process created a new idea on how restaurants of the future are going to work. In their new process, the McDonald brothers introduced the factory way of making food.

The factory way had less workers with lower pay. This new way helped out the McDonald brothers to make  more money by making more food at a lower cost. McDonald's became a very rich company by making these changes it is today.

  four companies that controls 80%-90% of the American beef supply which are Tyson, Cargill, JBS, and National beef.

Brands and labels place in meat products and dairy production are misleading. They're misleading by the labels they write like "Cage free", "humanly raised", and "Farm raise".

Chickens are different now then it was in 1950's. Two thing that change in the chickens are that they grow in a faster rate and they breast are bigger then before to have more meat to eat.

Vince Edward a worker for Tyson's company didn't give the filmmakers for Food Inc. permission to enter the barn because Tyson didn't allowed it. They didn't allow them because if we saw what was happening to the chickens we wouldn't want to eat the chicken anymore.

The United States has about 30% of land mass used to grow corn. The government policy plays a role  in making corn such a dominant crop. The government gives money to farmers so they grow the corn and sell it to Tyson, Cargill, Smithfield, and more so they can feed their animals.

Large meat suppliers are interested in lobbying the government for subsidies for corn because they use corn to feed their animals so they can sell all the meat they get from the animals.

Three productions that are partially made of corn are ketchup, jelly, and fast-food. These product either have corn syrup or just corn in them.

Cows and others animals were just meant to grass. The problem as a result to feeding animals corn like cows is that they can get E.Coli. Some Cows get E.Coli by eating nothing but corn when they should be eating grass.

In 2001 Kevin Kowalcyk a young boy died of hemolytic-uremic syndrome caused by eating ground beef contaminated with E.Coli. The government is responsible because they are allowing cows to eat corn not grass which makes them get E.Coli.

Some meat company's use ammonia in meats to prevent E.Coli contamination. Ammonia is also use in cleaning products in homes, cars, and offices.

The cheapest food they're is, is the dollar menu from fast food restaurants. They're the cheapest because it doesn't cost and take much time to make the ingredients which is mostly corn.

Obesity, diabetes, and poverty are all linked. For poor family's  and people they see junk food as the cheapest food. Chips, sodas, candy, etc. are more cheaper then fruits and vegetables. They can buy more junk food then healthily food which leads to obesity's.

According to the USDA Joel Salatin's  a farmer farm is considered "unsanitary." The USDA is wrong Joel took one of  his chickens to a lab and tested it against a big chicken company's and results were that Joel's chickens had very less bacteria then the other chicken company. Joel's had less then 390 and the chickens company were in the thousands.

Large meat packing plant gets most of their works from Mexico. They get their work from Mexico by putting up ads around the places since most Mexicans don't have jobs and need money.

Cheap cost of industrial food are "dishonest" and misleading. Industrial foods don't want people to know the environmental cost, health cost, and societal cost.

Many corporations are protected by laws. The laws protects corporations by not allowing people to bad about their foods. People are not allowed the say and or post anything bad about any company. If someone does they can be sue by that company they talk bad about.

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The toys that brings kids back to eat more.

Inform : Chicken

Meat being slaughter before the meat inspection Act.
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Perdue is a major chicken processing company based in Salisbury, Maryland U.S. with annual sale in excess of $6 billion. Perdue was name after the founded Arthur Perdue.

In the article Abusing Chickens We Eat by Nicholas Kristof publish in The NewYork Time he described how Perdue treats all his chickens.

Nicholas Kristof points out that Perdue's company doesn't treat their chicken humanely. The chickens don't see the daylight. Also they're giving antibiotics to make their Brest bigger, but they're unable to carry their own weight so they stay on the ground most of the time which scrapes their bottom.

Kristof describes that if human grew the same rate as chicken given antibiotics from the day we are born to 8 weeks we would weight 660 pounds. Kristof also justifies that almost all the chickens have lost their feathers all you can see is the red raw flesh.

The best quote of Nicholas Kristof is "If you buy a Perdue chicken in the grocery store, you might think it had lived a comfortable avian middle-class existence." I like this quote because I use to think chicken were treated humanely. I ever imagine they were treated bad.

The article change the way I see chicken as food. After I read the article I'm going to start to chose my chicken wisely making sure I get the real "raised cage free" and "humanely raised".

Living condition in 1906 was drity and flys were everywhere. The meat were never refrigerated so it would always smell and rot. Also in 1906 the food wouldn't almost be what it said it was. Some food would be rats or human if they fell in the grinder; people would eat those food without knowing.

The meat inspection Act help america by making sure to not allowing misbrand and adulterated. It also made sure meat are being processed under sanitary conditions.

Jim Perdue the founder of Perdue company.
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Public education and inequality

The reason for creating public school was to help out children's. They wanted public school to be trained for better jobs and American citizenship. Also to give opportunity to assimilate millions of immigrants.
The first problems of public schools were that they had strict rules and physical punishment made many students miserable.
The first school help families by offering childcare while the parents work. Also it took children out of the factories.
Schools perpetuate inequality by letting 62%  of white children go to elementary and 34% African-American went to elementary.
Some others issues schools had was children didn't want to replacing their native language for English. Also catholics didn't want to learn king James version of the bible so they made their own private school.

the first public schools that were made.
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How Tycoons became rich?

The most important aspect of Carnegie's life is when he became the wealthiest in the 19 century. His aspect is important because he went from poor to rich. He did this by buying railroads and other company's that help him sell steel. Then when started becoming rich he donated to charities and became a American model of success.
A tycoon is a wealthy, powerful person in a business or industry. These people got rich by having a mind for business. They would look for a way to make products better and cheaper, so they would try to get rid of their competition through illegal means.
A strategie tycoons would use was to attempt to control as much of the business as possible through vertical integration.
Robber barons is when the business owners finish their vertical integration they would rise pieces of their product. Also they would reduce pay for all works.
Social Darwinism is when people thought being rich was a sign of god's favor and being poor was a sign of being lazy. Rich men like this social Darwinism philosophy because they saw it as survival of the fittest and natural selection.

Andrew Carnegie the model for American success in the
19 century. 

Monopoly is a game they involves tycoons.
Taking to own everything.

Passive house poem

Tech and Passive House

Tech and passivity houses 

Should change the world in a good way

A good way is being green 

To be passive you need to be in your home sweet home

Turn your plants greener then before and take care of every single one

You can be with our generation so add solar panels

use them to save energy so go

use rise over run.

Summary of Technology & Construction during the Industrial Revolution& now

In the reading How science and Life Interacted During the American Industrial Revolution compiled by Danny Blas, explains how technology change in the cities and how we lived in the United States because of technology they were able to expand building upward and outward. Since technology started advancing it was helpful to the U.S. by giving them them their needs like transportion and space.

Technology also change how people moved around. Americans started started using trolley cars. The trolley cars would travel from neighborhoods to downtown office and to departments stores. Thanks to the trolley cars it was easier for the Americans to move around.

In the article The Passive House: Sealed For Freshness by Sandy Keenan, she explains the difference between a passive house and a traditional house. She describes a passive house as a environmentally responsible house without the traditional housing heating and air conditioning system. The passive house is a low energy building.

An arguments against passive houses are that it's expensive. Passive housing would cost $300,000-$500,000 average. Also it would take a decade or more for the energy saving. 

Another thing technology change was the way we read and learned. By inventing newspaper printing it was easier and cheaper for people to know what was happening. Also it was affordable for everyone to get.

Technology has change through out the time making life easier for everyone. It change how Americans lived in the past by making better building, easier transportion, and a easier way to live. Technology also change how we live today by making easier transportion, inventing new building, building new machines to make materials we need and more.

After The Civivl War

During the civil war there was two general Ulysses S. Grant who was in the unions side (north) and Robert E. Lee who was in the confederacy side (south). The general who I would predict that would to be the least successful is Robert E. Lee. I say Robert E. Lee because he fail to provide his army with adequate food, clothing, or weapons.

The reconstruction us important to the U.S because after the Civil War, the nation began to re-admit the South back into the Union.

I would solve illiteracy in the form slave y putting more public school, so they can all learn to read and write. Plantation owners want illiteracy slaves because most slaves required education to became economically self-sufficient.

Many former slaves had problems getting elected into office because most slave couldn't read or write.

Churches were very important to the African American people. It was important because it was the only institution that African Americans fully had control of.

Ulysses S. Grant
Union general

The first church African Americans
http://www.theafricanamericanlectionary.org/PopupCulturalAid.asp?LRID=76

Robert E. Lee
Confederacy general

Industrial Revolution

The Erie Canal was a man made canal they built during their period of the market revolution. This was significant to the U.S. because it help them get a bigger market distribution. With this canal it help them bring goods from Albany, New York to Lake Erie which stretch 363 miles. Also it was the easily transportation to their surplus productions.
Free enterprise is the freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with little government regulation. Entrepreneurs is a businessmen who invested their own money in new industries. It was important to the U.S. because it help people make more money.
The most important resource the U.S. had to help it become a world-wide industrial power was black gold which was oil.
The black gold was significant because they used it in many of their transportation and other use. Oil was basic use in light lambs and machinery.
Steel was manufacture by removing the Carbon from iron produces a lighter, more flexible, and rust-resistant metal-steel. Steel was used to make railroads tracks for thousands of miles, machines, and architecture building.

Buildings we're change and improved during the industrail revolution. With a steel frame to support the weight, architects could build as high as they wanted.

A new industrail revolution is always happening. The difference is that in the past the used steam boats and telegraph and now we use cars and cellphones or house phone. Two things we still use like the past is black gold(oil) to put on our machine and more. Also steel we use it in many buildings, bridge and machines.

Brooklyn bridge 

It was the most remarkable structure they made with steel.

http://www.historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=newyork/brooklyn/

Samuel F. B. Morse
He was the inventer of the first telegraph.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse

Erie Canal
This was the first man-made canal.
http://www.shmoop.com/market-revolution/photo-erie-canal-late-1800s.html

The American Civil War

During the Civil War the north and south were different. They both develop into two very different cultural and economic regions. The north didn't want slaves and the south did want slaves. Also the south had many plantation while the north had it's industries.

California was involved n the Civivl War debate because they didn't allowed slaves. When the people fom the South heard it they got angry.

The Fugitive slave law is a law that requires all escaped slave to brought back to their master/owners. The south support this law. This law was create was made so northerners wouldn't steal their slaves.

The Dred Scott case was about a African American slave who the Supreme Court was making a decision to consider a free man or a slave. This case lead to the Civil War by making the north and south fight about Dred Scott freedom.

John Brown's plan was to take slaves to a Virginia building where their was guns and other weapons store. After that he would a slave uprising and a revolution. Brown's plan was not a success no uprising or revolution happen. Later on John Brown was put on trail and was put to death.

After the secession the south formed the confederacy. Which broke apart from the union.

The tension between the states right and the central government power lead to the civil war.
The main reason is that north and south were fighting about the slaves. The north didn't want slaves while the south did want them.

 http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/john-brown.html

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Fighting the Civil War

The link for my presentation https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-A5HtCi-x6NPG4477qTIN6hYuSYf59Vhd4phZZGMX6E/edit?usp=docslist_api

The Bill of Rights and Me

The U.S. Bill of Right is important to me because it keeps me safe and tells me what I'm allowed to do.
Americans have the freedom of speech but it has it's limits. There are some form of speech that are not protect by the 1st amendment , and congress is allowed to makes laws regarding certain types of expression. For example you can't yell fire in a movie theater and cause a panic attack making many people get hurt.
The police can not search your car without a court paper unless necessary. According to the Supreme Court decisions, depends on weather they have a good reason. There is probably not sufficient reason for a search if the police is simply suspicious of the diver because of the way he is acting.
The right against unreasonable searches and seizures is highly important to most people because it's makes them feel disrespected.
A person can not be put in trail twice for the same crime. If they do it twice they are only going to do it again and again. They need to get enough evidence the first time. The only way to be put in trail again is by a different reason.

Recording of a New Nation

George Washington is a historic figure. He became the first president; he was a unanimous choice in the nation first presidential election. George Washington was for being a hero of the revolution. Also he is consider important to the U.S. because he help to establish a country that still exist.
The First political parties were an organization of people which seeks to achieve goals.
A presidential carbinet is are people who advise the president. They're more then one arguing and having disagreements in order to have a good decision. 
Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson were George Washington cabinet. These two had ideas for the new country. Alexander Hamilton wanted economy based on shipping and manufacturing and Thomas Jefferson wanted economy based on farming. Also Hamilton wanted concentrating power in federal government and Jefferson wanted sharing power with state and local government. They both had major disagreements.
If I was a president I would want to have cabinet. I would want them so they can help me make decision. Also so I can see everyone's point of view of the solution and have a solid good decision.

The Constitution of the U.S.

The constitution is a document that tells you what you can do and what you can't do. The peoples right. This document can also be change.
A centralized government is where all decisions are made by the government.
The Article of Confederation is a sign document to organize 13 colonies and to establish laws.
The original constitution do not succeed because there was not enough power in the central government. Many people didn't even show to vote.
Continental Congress limit the power of the Central Government by the bill of rights.
A significance of the U.S. constitution in 2014 is that we still have it the same since 200 years ago.