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.

Crispin The Cross of Lead - Theme

After I finished the book, Crispin The Cross of Lead, by Avi, I learned a lot about what the author wanted to teach me. The author throughout the book taught me that even though you will face many hardships in your life, courage, love, and friendship will bring you success and positive inpact. For example, in the book, Crispin is accused as a wolf's head for stealing from the town's manor although he didn't do the crime. After this happens, many people are killed for helping him when they weren't supposed to. Crispin thinks that all hope is lost until he finds someone who becomes his master, then his friend who tries to help him. The book, Crispin The Cross of Lead, shows that without the friendship and love from Bear, Crispin would not have survived. He also shows that the courage of combined friendship brought Crispin and Bear far along their journey. The author also shows in a good way that you have to believe in the things that you know are right and must have positive thoughts. At the end of the book, Bear gets caught for helping Crispin and gets whipped and beat up badly. Crispin builds up his courage, learns what is right, and uses the facts of him being the manors son, and frees Bear. Crispin The Cross of Lead, is an outstanding book that you can not easily put down. The book is full of mysteries and fun, but also teaches you about life.

Crispin The Cross of Lead - Plot

In the book Crispin The Cross Of Lead, by Avi, is a book about a boy named Crispin who has hardiships from the people who want to kill him and anyone who helps him. In this book, there are many rising actions, a few climaxs, then a resolution. The rising action is when after Crispin's mother dies, and while he is sleeping in the woods, after he wakes up, he hears John Aycliffe and another guy talking about secretive information. After that, John Aycliffe sets up meeting saying a false accusation about Crispin and that he was now a wolf's head meaning that anyone could kill him and would recieve a reward. As he runs away to his own safety, he meets someone named Bear. Bear gives him food, but forces Crispin to be his servant. As Bear and Crispin become friendlier, they share eachothers background. Then Bear leads Crispin to safety and to Great Wexly. The climax is when during the journey to Great Wexly, Crispin knowing of the writing on the small lead cross, gives it to Bear to translate it. Bear first makes excuses of not telling him the words like, "The light is too weak, and I need my sleep," but later tells Crispin that Crispin's real father was Lord Furnival, his manor. He also figured out that his mother could actually read and write well, although she was known as the lowest in the town. During their visit in Great Wexly, while Crispin is out exploring by himself, John Aycliffe sees him. John Aycliffe and some other soldiers try to catch Crispin, but later loses him. Instead of keep searching for Crispin, they capture Bear, whipping him and hitting him. After Crispin goes to save Bear, he uses his brain saying that he would tell the whole world about him being Lord Furnival's son if he didn't let Bear go. Because of this, John Aycliffe chooses to let them go, but later stops them. The resolution of the story is when John tries to kill Crispin, and while he tries to kill him, Bear and John Aycliffe go on a one on one sword fight. Bear wins, killing John, and tells the other soldiers that if they don't want to end up like John, to let them go.

Crispin The Cross of Lead - Character

Crispin, The Cross of Lead, by Avi has many main characters. In the beginning of the story, the main characters are Crispin, his mother, the priest, and John Aycliffe. At the start of the book, Crispin's mother dies, but even after her death, she is known as an important person. As Crispin runs away from his false accusments, made by John Aycliffe, the priest gives Crispin many facts and places to hide although he was not supposed to. On his journey to other safer places, Crispin finds Bear, who forces Crispin to be his servant, but later his friend. Through Bear, Crispin learns that his mother was the wife of his town's manor, Lord Furnival. Crispin and his mother were treated as the worst in their town from the beginning, he never knew that his mother could read and write, and was surprised that he came from a high positioned family. After the priest is killed by John Aycliffe for helping Cripin, he almost gives up thinking that all the people who help him will surely later die. But later, Bear also teaches Crispin that everyone has a purpose, and that love and friendship are the most important things above of all other things. That is why in the end, when Bear is caught by John Aycliffe, Cripin goes and tries to save him when there are many guards, especially one of them being John Aycliffe. Crispin is a young boy who keeps his words, and for a boy who doesn't know how to read or write, he is very smart. On the other hand, John Aycliffe is very aggressive and only cares about money and killing people who try to get in his way.

Setting for Crispin

Crispin The Cross Of Lead, by Avi, is a book which a boy named Crispin who is accused of stealing money from his manors house, and killing the priest in his town when he never did any of those crimes. This book takes place in England, 1377 A.D in a small town. Crispin has been announced a wolf's head which means that anyone could kill him. Crispin's father died before he was born, and later his mother dies. That meant that there was no one to protect him even if he was declared as the wolf's head. If someone brought his head to John Aycliffe, the one who caused this rumor, they would be paid twenty shillings. During Crispins run-away journey, he finds a man who forces Crispin to be his servant, but later helps him with life, and that everyone has a purpose even unimportant people. Crispin later acts as the son of Bear, his master, so that he could be more safer from all the people hunting him, and later learns from Bearhow to play the pipe. Crispin plays the pipe while Bear dances and juggles in front of their audiences to obtain money and food. Crispin is a book in which a boy who was a nobody learns to follow his dreams to become a somebody.