Chew On This blog 3

The book Chew On This, by Eric Schollser and Charles Wilson, was a very interesting book that taught me all the things that I need to know about fast food. Before reading this book, although I knew that fast food was unhealthy, I didn't know the exact information about what happened in the slaughterhouses, and how they were raised. Chew On This taught me that many cattle, chicken, and pigs that we consume, are abused, and slaughtered brutally before coming into the schools and our houses. I also learned about what happens when you eat fast food and what happens when you don't eat fast food. When you eat fast food, you have a great chance to get obese and a less fit body. Also including a weaker digestive system, and a lazier body. When you don't eat fast food, you stay fit and healthy, and don't have as much as calories and cholesterol. After reading this book, I thought about how I'm never going to eat at any fast food restaurants, unless they start using healthy products, and stop abusing the animals that we consume. They way that fast food restaurants fry their french fries, and the way that they lie to all their customers is very shocking. They told a vegetarian group that their french fries were fried in vegetable oil, but they actually fried them in beef oil. The facts about fast food should be spread out to the whole world, including broadcast stations, and news stations, so that McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell, and every other unhealthy fast food place can be changed for the people all around the world.

Chew On This Part 2

Although I knew the whole time how bad fast food was for your body and what it did, but I was shocked to see all the pictures in the book from the kid taste testing places to the four million pounds of burning poop that the cows lived close to. First of all, I was surprised to find how easy it is to get kids to do taste testing with just a little bit of bribery which includes money and sorts of toys that children like. The four million pounds of burning cow poop was also very shocking(a fact that I didn't know), because instead of disposing the poop for good, they just left a pile for it to burn wear the cows would breathe and roll around in. The cow poop not only was extremely bad for the enviornment, it smelled extremly bad, and heavily polluted the air which led to thousands of fish and wild life dying. Our government should do something about the working conditions there, because the people that work and live close to the cow have to smell the rancid smell of the poop everyday, that severely damages their health. People that have accidentily fell into the pit of poop have even died. The cows' waste should be disposed correctly, but the owners are to lazy and greedy to do anything about the waste. Disposing the waste correctly would be a thousand times better for the environment, the people, and it could help plants and animals flourish.

Secondly, I was so surprised to find out how many chemicals are used to make up the artificial flavors in food like soft drinks, candy, chips, and almost everything else that has flavor. The chemicals that are used to make just one lousy milkshake taste like the way it is are, amyl acetate, amyl butyrate, amyl valerate, anethol, anisyl formatebenzyl acetate, benzyl isobutyrate, butyric acid, cinnamyl isobutyrate, cinnamyl valerate, cognac essential oil, diacetyl,dipropyl ketone, ethyl acetate, ethyl amyl ketone, ethyl butyrate, ethyl cinnamate, ethyl heptanoate, ethyl heptylateethyl lactate, ethyl methylphenylglycidate, ethyl nitrate, ethyl propionate, ethyl valerate, heliotropin, hydroxyphenyl-2-butanone (10% solution in alcohol), a-ionone,isobutyl anthranilate,isobutyl butyratelemon essential oil, maltol, 4-methylacetophenone, methyl anthranilate, methyl benzoate, methyl cinnamate, methyl heptine carbonate, methyl naphthyl ketone, methyl salicylate, mint essential oilneroli essential oil, nerolin, neryl isobutyrate, orris butter, phenethyl alcohol, rose, rum ether, g-undecalactone, vanillin, and solvent(53 in total). I also cannot believe that food industries use bugs to color a lot of my food to make them look tasty. All the chemicals and man made artificial flavors make your food taste beyond great, but while your tounge enjoys the taste, your body suffers the pain. These companies are making millions or even billions of dollars every year, and if they just use about a percent of that to use healthier organic foods, buisness would boom. Fast food has many extreme unhealthy facts, but even though these facts were told to every person in the world, a lot of people would still eat at fast food restraunts.

Chew On This

The book, Chew On This, by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson, talks about the history of fast food, including the maker of the hamburger, how the fast food are made, how the McDonald brothers suceeded, and everything else that you need to know about fast food. An interesting fact that i learned from, Chew On This, is that a fifteen year old boy named Charlie Nagreen got the idea of making the hamburger from squished meetballs, so that people could eat them without having to hold any utensils. The hamburger was also made in the year of 1885 in a small town in Seymour, Wisconsin. It was shocking how when the hamburger first came out, some people died or became sick from food poisoning. In a vote of the favorite meals of New Yorkers, spinach and even cow toungue beat the hamburger in votes. To show people that the hamburgers were now clean, the McDonald brothers started grilling them in front of his customers. I also learned that before Richard and Maurice Mcdonald made McDonalds(White Castle), they struggeled to make a living, and hoped to find jobs in the movie buisness. Then as they started McDonalds, there buisness boomed and soon became rich. Many other fast food restraunts like burger king, dunkin dohnuts, and kfc admired McDonalds. Although McDonalds was admired by many companies and people, the McDonald brothers wouldn't have gone far without Ray Kroc. Ray Kroc was a salesman that had lived a life that had been full of failure, disappointments, and missed opportunities. When the McDonald brothers were staying at home, Ray Kroc would work, opening new places and keeping the taste of the food the same in every restraunt. Ray Kroc brought sucess to McDonalds, and after borrowing money, he bought part of the company giving each McDonald brother one million dollars. Although one million dollars was a huge amount back then, it was a wrong move. If they kept the company, they would be making more than 180 million dollars a year.