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.