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Albom, Mitch. tuesdays with Morrie. United States : Doubleday, 1997. Print

Precis

Mitch is becoming more involved in Morrie life. Morrie is venting his frustrations about the culture in the world.

• ““When you’re in bed, you’re dead,” Page. 153 

I agree with this statement to a point were I draw the line. If you are dying in bed, can’t move and sleep for more than 13 hours you are dead. If you are in bed and you know what’s going on and you involved in life in some way you are alive.

• “I thought about how much time we spend trying to shape our bodies, lifting weights, crunching sit-ups, and in the end, nature takes it away from us anyhow.” Page. 154

This line really hit on a topic I think about a lot. As people we tend to follow social practices like wanting to have a “perfect body”. We waste hours at a gym when we could be living our lives. But why do we care enough to get that body? It’s all for the acceptance of others.

• ““And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money god. It is all part of this culture.”” Page. 154 

Morrie is right in saying that when you are threatened you only look out for yourself because when scared you make sure your safe.

• ““Every society has its own problems,” Morrie said… “The way to do it, I think, isn’t to run away. You have to work at creating your own culture.”” Page. 156 

Don’t run away from your problems, solve them with people who care for you.

• ““There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things”-he sighed– “These things I do regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do?”” Page. 164 

I think the same thing why do people need pride. What does it give us as a society? Pride is something one person holds by himself or herself.

I have tried to build my own culture with my friend but it always seems to lead to following another cultures ideas and values, the teen culture. I try not to conform to what the norms of the teen culture are, like acting a certain way but it’s hard to do. Morrie was right in saying you need a community to build a culture with not just friends.

HW 23

Albom, Mitch. tuesdays with Morrie. United States : Doubleday, 1997. Print

Precis 

Morrie is teaching his last class ever. The fourth week of his class was on death. Morrie is trying to convey what death really is to his class.

• ““Everyone knows they’re going to die, he said again, “but nobody believes it. If we did, we did we would do things differently.”” Page. 81 

I believe that what Morrie’s said is true but by doing things differently would that make people less out going and more protective so they would not die or more out going and take more risks with there life.

• ““That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you’re living.”” Page. 81 

This statement is a puzzle because everybody thinks there involved in there life while there living but what I believe Morrie is trying to convey is you should be more aware of your life as you living it and not act a zombie following a simple routine. 

• ““The truth is Mitch,” he said, “once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.””  Page. 82 

This is a powerful line I thought about because most people think about living for most of their life till their about to die when they think about how there going to die. Is it then they are actually supposed to live life? It is hard for a person to think about death in their life because they don’t want it to come but what Morrie is trying to say is that if we thought about death earlier and were not scared of it, then we could live life to the fullest. 

• ““The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.” He nodded toward the window with the sunshine streaming in. “You see that? You can go out there, outside, anytime. You can run up and down the block and go crazy. I can’t do that. I can’t go out. I can’t run. I cant’ be out there without fear of getting sick. But you know what? I appreciate that window more than you do.”” Page. 84 

Morrie can ‘t go out side anymore with our fear of getting sick. So threw windows he sees everything and appreciates the little time he is outside because for most of the time he is not able to be out side. It’s like being in prison. If you live in prison and have no life, watching the outside world, blocked from going to it and you finally get to leave. You at fist tended to appreciate everything around you because you know what life with out all of it is like.

• ““This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there’s someone who is watching out for them.”” Page. 92 

Family is not just loving people you are related to but knowing that someone always is there to help you.


When I was younger I thought about death a lot. I would ask my mom questions about it because death scared me and she would tell me that it was no good for someone my age to think about death when they have their whole life to live. But those thoughts made me out going and want achieve knew thing because in away I was still scared of death but I knew that it would come no matter what I did and if I didn’t have fun before it came then it was not worth waiting for.

Hw 22

Albom, Mitch. tuesdays with Morrie. United States : Doubleday, 1997. Print.

Precis
Mitch’s best friend and his former teacher, Morrie, had been diagnosed with ALS, an incurable disease. Morrie lives out his days trying to reconcile with death.

• “Charlotte had a million thoughts running through her mind: How much time do we have left? How will we manage? How will we pay the bills? My old professor, meanwhile, was stunned by the normalcy of the day around him. Shouldn’t the world stop? Don’t they know what has happened to me?” Page. 8

I think it’s wrong that Charlotte thinks about money right after the doctor gives Morrie’ s diagnosis and not about how her husband is feeling about the certain death he faces. Morrie had realized that the cliché about death on T.V was not true. The world does not stop moving for any man.

• “I may not live to finish the semester. If you feel this is a problem, I understand if you wish to drop the course.” Page. 9

Morrie is starting to accept death and is not afraid to tell people.

• “Accept the past as past without denying it or discarding it…” Page. 18

I loved the insight that Morrie stated, the past is the past but you can’t forget what happened. I feel this is a good lesson for life because people learn from their past no matter how bad it is.

• “Several of Morrie’s friends and family members had gathered to meet Koppel…”

           Page. 19

I feel that this quote show a dominant social practice we were talked about in class. Friends and family of Morrie only come to see him because a celebrity was interviewing him. They didn’t come to see how he was feeling.


Tuesdays with Morrie portrays that people dying reflect on their life. They think about all the lessons they learned in their life and try to pass that knowledge on to other people that can learn from it. It is also a time you spend with you closest friends and family to keep you as happy as you can be.

Hw 21 Comments

Max-

Max even though were not in class I still feel from the notes you understood what Evan's mom was going threw. Your are experience with you dad has put you in a place close enough to a person fighting with cancer to feel Beth's pain. I do agree with your other statement that medical care should be free. But it is a system that is not perfect. Beth did everything she could to get care faster but in the imperfect world we live in even a super power cant save everyone.

Alex-

Alex I understand that sickness can sneak up on some one but that happens because science is not advanced enough to pick up everything in a persons body. I liked your incite on how people don't know what happens after death but they take comfort in knowing that there with there love ones. I never really thought about death in that way. But I don't agree that religion is being taken over by science. I don't think you have any evidence to prove that.

Hw 21

• Beth’s husband had trouble sleeping on his back so Beth came up with an ingenious idea to solve his problem with out going to the hospital. Sleeping half way on a table and half on a bed. 

• Beth did not want other people taking care of her husband such as hospice. She felt that only loved ones should take care of a person so close to their death. Beth and her son Evan took care of her husband best way possible, together. 

• At death the room felt as still and as silent as it could be. 

• The toll of a loved one dying helps people feel a sense of how we are not immortal. 

When Beth said, at death the room felt as still and as silent as could be. I understood what she was talking about. I have had many people in my family die and I have felt this time and time again. But just recently I watched my grandma pass away slowly. It was very painful for me to watch and when her time came it felt like I was in a tunnel. My mind linked to hers, nothing could get in or out. It was silent in the room. I stood  watching her with my thoughts about her life and her last words. I couldn’t feel movement in the world. Until the link was naturally broken and I got to the point of acceptance. It was time to say my final good-byes, where I could touch her and she still would feel warm. That feeling is almost indescribable; there is a sense of power that when I close my eyes I can feel in the room, in silence and in my thoughts.

The toll of a loved one dying helps people feel a sense of how we are not immortal. When Beth said this statement I felt it with great power in my heart because I too have the extreme feeling of not being immortal. In the last couple of years I have seen my family members die making me lose my childhood dreams of living forever. The thing that made me feel immortality was never possible was when I had a friend commit suicide. Having someone that I knew my age dying put death in the front of my mind. This scared me because I am afraid to die. I always thought if I could, I would be immortal but then I know everybody I love would die one day and I would still be here. Having to deal with the pain of my loved ones dying and me staying alive is too hard for me to handle. Still I don’t know how to accept death.

Beth sparked ideas of joy and sadness in my eyes. She made me think of what good someone could do for the world but also how fast the world can "kill" you. She made me think about my family an actually help me think about death. From her confidence to speak in class it has made me feel better about my ability to write about my "death life".

Hw 19

Both my parents have lived to see death and illness more times then they want to admit. They have seen it in war, and in their family life. It stems from illness that cannot be healed. My parents understand death in a way I can’t imagine. Even thought I have seen death and illness so much in my life already.

My dad has witnessed death in ways I wish upon no man. He was drafted in to the army to serve in North Korea in 1969 while his brother was sent to the Vietnam. When he was there, he was fixing DMZ (Korean Demilitarized Zone) signs a lot of the time and one day his unit was ambushed. He lost his best friend in the army in the first two minutes of the ambush and he was pined down for seven hours. He had to watch his best friend on the ground dead for this time. He analyzed everything he could think of. One of the biggest things he thought about beside his family was the idea of fate and if he believed in it. He ended up accepting that fate was real and accepting that if he died it was fate. Right then he was able to reconcile with death, face to face. He also knew that if North Korea attacked South Korea at full strength there would be no reinforcements ready to help the front line and he would have been dead in five minutes.

But his brother saw more death then my father would have ever scene. He was killing not only men but also children. This had a physiological effect on him and when he got back home my father knew he was changed in way that was not good for him. Also coming home his brother had to live with everybody in America being mad at him. Threw his pain he had five different types of cancers that not only my father watched him go threw but I did as well. He survived it all and he is living in Florida.

My dad saw even more illness and dying coming home from the war, when his father had stomach cancer. His father was a world war two veteran and by the time my grandfather saw a doctor he was incurable so he stayed at home to live out his life with his kids.

My mom lived with a mother that suffered from breast cancer. When my mom was 12 her mother was diagnosed with the cancer. Three long years later her cancer was dormant and the family was happy but it came back two years later this time proving incurable. My grandmother who I never meet lived her life out at home never going to the hospital again till she died. She lived out her days at home with her kids. Just recently the rest of my mom’s family has died, first with her brother whom suffered then died form lunge and brain cancer. He stayed at home to die not going and living at the hospital. Then her father died from a heart attack.

Unlike the modern social practice of dying in a hospital my grandparents died with their closest love ones at home. However they did go strait to the hospital when they were sick but they were determent not to make it a home. Both my grandparents were very religious so following their religious social practices my grandfather had a very catholic funeral and my grandmother had a very Jewish funeral. To this day my parents are not very religious but my mom want to be breed religiously and my dad wants a religious ceremony but to be cremated. They have not decided whether they want to follow the social normal if dying in a hospital or be like their parents and do their own thing.

I have scene a lot of death and illness in my family and I know I will follow the social normal and go to the doctor when I’m sick and I would like to die at home but only time will tell what I may do.

HW 18

The holiday Thanksgiving has gone form a anti-body practice of giving thanks for what you have and are given to a body–centered practice that is centered around eating till you are to full to move. On this holiday groups of people come together to be with one another and bring large amounts of food that could feed multiple families. This is the modern practice of this holiday. There is no meaning to the holiday now. People look to the holiday as a time to get together and see the people they love. But do they really love the people or the body-centered practice of the holiday.

At my families Thanksgiving we had enormous dishes full of the festive food that could never be finished. But not only the normal the enormous dishes of festive food were there, part of my family who are vegetarians walked in and with more huge dishes to share with everyone. There was double the food this year with the same number of people as every other people.

The after the meal of “thanks” in my family it comes down to the talk. Everyone in my family comes to the family room of where ever we are and sits down to talks. People notice who’s missing at first from the people with spouses not sitting next to them, like my late grandfather Sam Gordon and my late uncle Jim Cotter. People also notice when my grandma is drunk because after my grandfather died she fell in love with gin. My family could be a bunch of bad politicians after the awkwardness. The talk always starts out about the kids in the family and how school is. Then on to the way the D.O.E run and the latest governmental issue till it gets heated and again it gets very awkward. Till my dad who does not talk much in these conversations because its my moms family and he rather not get involved in it crakes a lame joke which they think is funny. I sit there staring in space and texting. I always look at my dad around eight and say lets go because I’m not having fun. No one is my age and no one wants to talk about anything but my school life and collage. It feels like I’m having the same conversation a thousand times. My family follows their cultural practice which is a body centered one. We don’t pray, we don’t say who we give thanks to, we just come and eat talk and leave on the same way we came.

HW 17

Dying has been a thought on my mind since I can really remember. I used to think about it a lot when I was younger. It is my greatest fear.

At the age of eleven I experienced the pain of death for the first time when my uncle, Ira, died of lung and brain cancer. I didn’t really know my uncle because he lived in Arkansas but it was still heart braking. My next encounter with death was when I was fourteen and my oldest and closest grandfather of 97 died peacefully of old age. This showed me that death could be “simple” and clean. This death for me was foreseen still I could not accept it. Then when I was fifteen my other grandfather died of a heart, he was the healthiest person I knew. He exercised every day by swimming and jogging. This event was outstanding to me that someone so healthy could just die with out warning. Nine month ago my grandmother died of old age. I was very close to her because I never knew my grandfather and it really hurts me that I couldn’t ever see or talk to her again. Then two month ago a big tragedy happened in my family, my other uncle died of a sudden stroke. I had seen him not one month before when he was visiting me from San Francisco. This felt unreal to me because it still felt like he was in my living room talking to me. I was very close with him and to here him dying was not acceptable to me. In the same week I had a friend kill her self by hanging. I had never thought I’d have a friend commit suicide. At this point in my life death was vivid and as real as it got but I had not flinched when I heard all this news I always just sit in silence because it all felt unreal. Till I cracked and could not hold the pain of death in anymore because real life had set in.

Death has changed my perspective on live. My family has past away so fast and I have felt the pain that my friend had felt before. I now always try to make life as fun as possible and do as much as I can in the time I have. All these people that have died have there own meaning and story in my life that makes me who I am. I’m scared of dying or wait, am I scared of the unknown. Just as I was afraid of the dark when I was four because I didn’t know what was in the dark. Does dying lead to something else’s? What happens after? That’s what I want to know. Why do we live now if we one day we die and then for all we know don’t know anything, don’t think, see, hear, just nothing. I will never have known I wrote this for Andy my 11th grade sociology teacher. This area is a place of weakness for me. A place I don’t like to enter in my mind because I suppress as much id it as I can because I can’t candle the truth. But what is the truth.

HW 11 - Project Part 1

I have been improving my diet for months before the food unit in order to get in better shape. I started by cutting out junk food, soda, white grains and fast food from my diet. Then I only ate foods with lots of protein and nutrition. This helped me lose wait, have more energy and helped me gain better self-control over my body. I was able to control my bad food urges but the new foods that I was eating were not always the best tasting if I didn’t have time to make it something good. So I cheated my diet by eating very small amounts of fast food to get the tastes I loved so much. Ultimately this disappointed me and when I was given this project I thought what I have been doing has helped me a lot by feeling better about myself and I wanted to help others.

Amhara came up with an idea or a dream, to make a facebook group that would be a protest against fast food for one week. There would be thousands of people invited and joining making it a movement. I liked the concept so I asked to join her group as an admin to work with her but she had already made the group. I became an admin then to just watch and see how people reacted because I did not agree with how she set the group up. People wrote on the wall as if it was a joke and criticized it saying one week is nothing you needed a real change by doing this for a month or for the rest of your life. I agreed because my food life style has changed because I keep up with my diet.

Ultimately the group did not get any buzz and I didn’t think that my original group idea was the right approach anymore. I thought about how people always want to be different and take challenges but not all people want to take the same challenge as everyone else. So I challenged my good friends as they challenged me to not eat fast food for a month and if succeed we would continue for another month but everyone would bring in one person they trusted to be part of this group. We saw each other on a regular basis so there was no reason to meet at certain times. When we meet we would tell stories about how the journey threw our food lives were going. For the first week the fast food world had be easy to leave for all of us but during the weekend it was tuff for some of us. During the weekend my friends were offered free fast food and it was hard but they turned it down. It took more time to make foods that tasted good, we had to do research to find healthy food places to grab fast meals not run by major corporations and it cost more money for this food.

My friends felt that the system of having someone close to you experiencing the same thing you were helped them stay on track because they didn’t want to fail someone they care about. The challenge they said was one of the things that drew them in because you always want to beat your best friend and to lose would be a big defeat. Then I had realized my activist goal had gone off track from making my group so exclusive people would want to join to a group a friends working to help one another be healthy. We did not stand as a number on facebook in the thousands, we had each other to look in the face and make sure we were living up to our challenge. We had to face the people we loved directly and tell the truth. Fast food is a drug you just want more. During the week so far I have felt more awake and full of energy.

HW 12 - Project Part 2

Overarching Thesis: 
Our culture has many dominant social practices that are nightmarish industrial atrocities and it is nearly impossible to change them.

Major Argument 1:
Many venture to change the “normal” food ways of America but corporate giants like Mc Donald’s and Tyson make they make it nearly impossible for a person to make a difference.

Supporting Claim 1:

Corporate giants such as Monsanto have power in the government so there is no debate over change to the food system.

Evidence 1: Supreme Court judge Clarence Thomas was a Monsanto attorney and then in a court case that decided the seed saving conflict. Clarence Tomas wrote the majority option that allowed these companies to prevent famers from saving their own seeds.

http://www.cropchoice.com/leadstrya594.html?recid=540'

http://www.organicconsumers.org/Monsanto/farmerssued.cfm

http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/schmeiser.cfm

http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/f/food-inc-script-transcript.html

Evidence 2: Margaret Miller was a chemical lab supervisor for Monsanto and to this day she is the FDA’s branch chief.

http://www.psrast.org/bghsalmonella.htm

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/

Evidence 3: Linda Fisher was the vice president of government and public affairs for Monsanto and then later became the EPA deputy administrator.

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/Monsanto-Fisher-EPA-Job.htm

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/

Supporting Clam 2:

Large agricultural enterprises like Tyson have power over its Farms by being able to cut contracts and demand upgrades if they choose to.

Evidence 1: In McLean country Kentucky, Vince Edwards a Tyson grower offered to show the cameras of Food Inc. in side the chicken houses but after multiple visits by Tyson he changed his mind.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/ 

Evidence 2: After asking a dozen farmers one famer let Food Inc film in the chicken houses.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/

Evidence 3: Carole Morison Perdue grower said, “ I understand why famers don’t want to talk because the companies can do what they want as far as pay goes because they control everything.”

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/

http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/workshops/ag2010/comments/255197.pdf

Evidence 4: Carole Morison Perdue grower said, “The companies keep the famers under their thumb because of the debt the famers have. To build one poultry house is any where from $280,000 to $300,000 per house and once you make your entail investment the companies constantly comeback with demands of upgrades for new equipment and the grower has not choose, they have to do it or your threatened with loss of contract.”

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/

http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/workshops/ag2010/comments/255197.pdf

Evidence 5: Carole Morison did not want to upgrade her chicken houses so in response to that her contract was cut.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/

http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/workshops/ag2010/comments/255197.pdf

Hw 10

Food Inc. 
“The food industry has changed more in the last fifty years than it has in the last ten thousand.” Not for the better, for the worse. The foremost concept of Food Inc. is that America needs to change its agricultural industry the right way. America turned its agriculture world into a machine, so in humane that it is hidden from the public.

Food Inc. and Omnivore’s Dilemma have similarity and differences but the movie showed a more one-sided argument towards how bad the agricultural industry is. Compared to the book, which was more factual and informative acting as an unbiased opinion. The movie used images and facts to put forth the directors view on how the industry should be portrayed. In peoples minds this will stand out more because the harsh images that the director got of the industry are shown and not left to the imagination of the reader. In the movie they are able to state facts like “McDonald is the largest buyer of ground beef in America” and show the type of beef they are buying with comments on how it is made. But if this line were in the book it probably would not faze me as it did in the film because I would not have a graphic image sitting in my head. The movie also discussed more about the lobbyists in Washington and how they protect their industry. The book tells more about the actual farms the animals are coming from and the farms they should be coming from. The author, Michael Pollan worked on the farms getting the full experience of the industrial and non-industrial world.

When I think about Food Inc. I think of the animals being slaughtered, genetically grown food, sickness that can kill and then I think about how well the movie made me think like it. It also showed me another example of how our government is corrupt. The government does not put its peoples interests first but their pockets. The world looks to America not just as a role model but also as a source of income. If we are able to make food like corn cheaper than poor countries we might as well start killing them. The grains and food they once sold to the United States which possible made up their whole economy is now gone. Why does the government stand by while a food system is being built that is bad for people, bad for land and unsustainable?

HW 7d

Omnivore’s Dilemma By Michael Pollan

Chapter 17:
The ethics that concern the slaughter of animals are now being noticed. And people are starting to believe the justification of slaughtering an animal is if they live happy first.

Gems:
"Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the life of the pig- an animal easily as intelligent as a dog- that becomes the Christmas ham." (p.306)

"That fate is reserved for the American laying hen, who spends her brief span of days piled together with a half-dozen other hens in a wire cage the floor of which four pages of this book could carpet wall to wall." (p.317)

"We are the better for it, and they are never the worse...The death they suffer in our hands commonly is, and always may be, a speedier and, by that means a less painful one, than that which would await them in the inevitable course of nature" (p.328)

Thoughts:
I believe that the slaughtering of animals in our society cannot be justified in any means. We have changer the circle of life, which was made for the hunter/gatherer method that justifies the killing of an animal. When this method was used it was a sacred thing to kill an animal and you only killed what you need nothing more now. Now we kill to feed whom? The refrigerators that we stuff with food no body eats for years.

Chapter 18:
Hunting used to be natural way of life for humans. We have a sense of pride killing an animal. When I went out hunting I felt this sense of pride when I killed a pig but the after affect made me feel discussing.

Gems:
“A brain chemical that sharpens the senses, narrows your mental focus, allows you to forget everything extraneous to the task at hand (including physical discomfort and the passage of time), and makes you hungry would see to be the perfect pharmacological tool for man the hunter,” (p. 342)

“I felt a wave of nausea begin to build in my gut. The clinical disinterest with which I had approached the whole process of cleaning my pig collapsed all at once: This was disgusting." (p.356)

"So much of the human project is concerned with distinguishing ourselves from beasts that we seem strenuously to avoid things that remind us that we are beasts too - animals that urinate, defecate, copulate, bleed, die, stink, and decompose" (page 357)

Thoughts: 
I don’t feel I could ever take another animals life. That’s me being a hypocrite because I eat animals all the time but I don’t think I could hold a gun and watch an animals life end before my eyes. The biggest mystery to me is, how do people work at these slaughterhouses and live with themselves?


Chapter 19:
Humans have become very good at gathering over the year but there still is a risk of identifying something wrong. Wild mushrooms are easy to identify wrong even though we have become great gathers.

Gems: 
“For the individual human, his community and culture successfully mediate the omnivore’s dilemma, telling him what other people have safely eaten in the past as well as how they ate it,” (p.372)

"Without fungi to break things down, the earth would long ago have suffocated beneath a blanket of organic matter created by plants; the dead would pile up without end, the carbon cycle would cease to function, and living things would run out of things to eat." (p.376)

"Who's to say the day won't come when science will be able to measure the fungi's exotic energies, perhaps even calculate our minimum daily requirement of lunar calories?" (p.378)

Thoughts: 
I have no experience gathering mushrooms but I have gathered berries in the woods before and they are right, you have to know what your doing before you do it. You do not want to pick the wrong mushroom or berry because you will get sick or worse. Trust me I know from my own experiences. I find it also very interesting that mushrooms can hold lunar energy. Can this be used for anything like solar energy? Will there be lunar panels? It’s something I feel some research should be invested into. It could save the world or mess it up even more.

Chapter 20: 
After I hunted and gathered food for myself, which was harder than I imagined, it gave me a feeling as if I was linked to mother earth. This meal was food that mother nature meant omnivores to eat when she put us on here.

Gems:
"No, little if anything about this meal was what anyone would call 'realistic'. And yet no meal I've ever prepared or eaten has been more real" (p.392)

"I suddenly felt perfectly okay about my pig- indeed, about the whole transaction between me and this animal that I'd killed two weeks earlier. Eating the pig, I understood, was the necessary closing act of that drama, and went some distance toward redeeming the whole play." (p.401)

“Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we’re eating, the animals and plants and fungi that have been sacrificed to gratify our needs and desires, as well as the places and the people that produced them,” (p. 404)

Thoughts: 
This chapter made me think a lot about how hard it is to get your own food from the wild, and how civilization spent most of their lives getting food. In Time magazine there was an article about organic food in the august issue and they said, “if we all decided to switch to healthier, chemical-free meat, there wouldn’t be remotely enough to go around.” (Kluger 32) We have to work towards coming off processed foods and switching to natural food like we used to live on. These processed foods are not just bad but from this book I have learned there made with the use of oil, which is not a resource that will be around forever. So how can America continue to let the food companies run this way if the companies, which feed us, are setup to fail?

Bibliography 

Kluger, Jeffrey. "What's So Great About Organic Food?." Time. 176.9 (2010): 32. Print.

HW 9

Freakonomics

#1
In Freakonomics the protagonist’s use three main moves to give evidence for their movie. The fist moves the protagonist’s uses are skits in which they bring real life situations to the people watching. This allows them to better understand what is happening on a basic level so they can relate. The scene in the movie about children getting better grades for money shows a human level connection.

Another move that the protagonist’s use in the film is the ability to show and explain data. Data was shown in the sumo scene to represent the links in evidence that showed fowl play was involved in the sport. Which was the link they were try to show about fowl play in the food industry.

The last move I saw the protagonist’s use was cartoons. The scene about one of the protagonists dough’s getting m&m for going to the bathroom on the toilet was better told in cartoon form because it would be hard to show just by descriptions.

#3
In my option the authors relied on life experiences as their main scores of evidence. Life experiences were two out of the four skits used to prove their point. This is a good idea for the author because it can connect to people on a more personal level and they can relate more to the people in the movie.


Freakonomics serves as an inspiration and good example to our attempt to explore the "hidden-in-plain-sight" weirdness of dominant social practices.

I disagree with this statement because I don’t believe that any hard evidence was given to me to use this movie as an inspirational example of exploring social practices. I think this because the movie was very vague in it’s evidence. For example in the scene with the sumo wrestlers, they no hard numbers to back up there statements, just numbers running down the screen. As well they had professionals on the same topic contradicting one another, which does not make me think they found good examples to use. The veil on the other hand that they talked about over the sumo league did make a good example of the veil the Food industry puts on Americans.

HW 7c

Omnivore’s Dilemma By Michael Pollan

Chapter 11:

Joel Salatin does no work on his farm because he lets the animals do all the work for him. They create the healthier farm by fertilizing, feeding, and other process that help the farm. The animals nurturer other animals, and in turn, nurturing themselves. 

Gems:
“In nature you’ll always find birds following herbivores...The egret perched on the rhino’s nose, the pheasants and turkeys trailing after the bison – that’s a symbiotic relationship we’re trying to imitate,” (p. 211)

"The idea is to not slavishly imitate nature, but to model a natural ecosystem in all its diversity and interdependence, one where all the species "fully express their physiological distinctiveness."” (p.215)

Thoughts:

This is how I always imagined a farm working because this is how children’s books make farms out to be. But why would they lie. The truth is they never did because the books, stories and songs have been around for years and will never change. The industrial food market has turned the childhood memories of a great farm in America to dust. But with the will of Joel Salatin these childhood stories are real to me and can be real for many kids.


Chapter 12: 

Joel Salatin slaughters his animals himself to insure a guarantee to his consumers that the life cycle of the chicken was on his very farm. He does not want them shipped out to let someone else to slaughter his work.

Gems:
"In a way, the most morally troubling thing about killing chickens is that after a while it is no longer morally troubling." (p.233)

The problem with current food-safety regulations, in Joel’s view, is that they are one-size-fits-all rules designed to regulate giant slaughterhouses that are mindlessly applied to small farms...” (p. 229)

Thoughts: 
This is a very nice peace of mind. But how do you find farms like Joel Salatin? The farms are not advertised or talked about and I don’t know how reliable the Internet is. There should be a way to know legitimate famers that do this.

Chapter 13: Effort to eat real organic food or "non-barcode" food is what makes farms like Joel Salatin appealing. People are willing to pay high prices for quality food because diseases are common with industrial foods.

Gems:
"Already the desire on the part of consumers to put something different into their bodies has created an $11 billion market in organic food. That marketplace was built by consumers and farmers working informally together outside the system, with exactly no help from the government." (p.257)

“Yet this artisanal model works only so long as it doesn’t attempt to imitate the industrial model in any respect,” (p.249)

Thoughts: 
My family doesn’t put the effort in, to eat non-barcode food because my dad has been living for 63 years and he has been eating the same food for all that time so he thinks that he should not have to pay the extra money and go far just to get “fresher” meat. As well my point from before; Where do you go?


Chapter 14: 

The chicken I had gathered had a higher nutritional standard, omega-3s, vitamin E and heath values that only could be gained by eating chickens raised on grass.

Gems:
“The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss described the work of the civilization as the process of transforming the raw into the cooked – nature into culture,” (p.264)

“Both literally and metaphorically, a saltwater bath cleanses meat, which perhaps explains why the kosher laws- one culture's way of coming to terms with the killing and eating of animals- insist on the salting of meat." (p.264)

Thoughts: 
The health benefits in our society don’t out way the need for low prices. So we look to other food that is made cheaper but to a lot of people tastes them same. This is an example of my life reading this will not change what I eat that much, if any.

Chapter 15: 

The hunter/gatherer method is not an aliquot method to survive in our modern society because humans out number their wild prey. The idea of killing you own food makes me want to go back to another food chain. 

Gems:
“Foraging for wild plants and animals is, after all, the way human species has fed itself for 99 percent of its time on earth; this is precisely the food chain natural selection designed us for." (p.280)

“By contrast the hunter, at least as I imagined him, is alone in the woods with his conscience,” (p.281)

Thoughts:
The hunter/gatherer method is a method that has not been possible in our society for many years now because of the domestication of all our main sources of food. It was a good method back in the day because it gave every one a chance to eat. (no money was involved) Now people starve and they is no other way of getting food than buying it.


Chapter 16:

Humans endure the omnivore's dilemma everyday with the stress of what to eat? But America has a made guidelines to make the choices simpler. 

Gems:
"What began as set of simple sensory responses to food (sweet, bitter, disgusting) we've elaborated into more complicated canons of taste that afford us aesthetic pleasures undreamed of by the koala or cow." (p.295)

“For the omnivore a tremendous amount of mental wiring must be devoted to sensory and cognitive tools for figuring out which of all these questionable nutrients it is safe to eat,” (p.291)

Thoughts:
I don’t believe that figuring out what to eat is a dilemma more like a luxury because there are millions of people in this world that don’t have a choose of what to eat. They only have very limited resources. I did not agree with what he was saying.

HW 8

Growing my own food was not a new experience for me. I had grown my own food at a camp I worked at this summer. The food went to poor families in the area of New York I was working in. Growing my own food is rewarding every time I do it. I have never done it in a jar but it was a good experience. It is rewarding to eat something you have worked hard to grow. My process took a week and that might seem long to a farmer but from what have been reading in Omnivore’s Dilemma By Michael Pollan. To watch my food grow is inspiring, it’s a tine seed that opens up in to its own thing and grows. I feel I watch this process with kids I work with, every month they seem bigger and more developed than last I saw them just like my sprouts. The sprouts tasted like grass and did nothing for the ham sandwich. 

HW 7b

Omnivore’s Dilemma By Michael Pollan

Chapter 6:

High-fructose corn syrup replaced sugar and has become the leading source of sweetener in all food. This raised calories in food resulting in people consuming more calories. Coca-Cola and Pepsi were able to use the High-fructose corn syrup to take out sugar which is cheaper, which aloud Coca-Cola and Pepsi to make bigger bottles.

Gems:
Public health problems cost us “90 billion a year.”(p.102)

“Three of every five Americans are overweight; one out of five is obese.” (p.102)

A dollar can buy 1,2000 calories of potato chips and cookies or it can buy yoy 250 calories of carrots. (p.108)

Thoughts:
High-fructose corn syrup has made American people fatter. Since Pepsi and Coca-Cola has used high-fructose corn syrup they have been able to give people more soda for pennies more and from chapter 6 when people are given more food or drink than they need, they still eat it. If the companies were not out to become millionaires they would have stayed with sugar and people would not drink soda in such large moderations.

Chapter 7:

Corn being processed into different food items is how McDonalds has changed the way of fast food. They have created a profiting food industry that is not good for people to eat.

Gems:
“five grams of TBHQ can kill.” (p.114) About 125 nuggets 

“In truth, my cheeseburger’s relationship to beef seemed nearly as metaphorical as the nugget’s relationship to a chicken,” (p. 114)

“Soda (100 percent corn), milk shake (78 percent), salad dressing (65 percent)…”(p.117)

Thoughts: 
This chapter has made me never want to eat McDonalds again. This is a very big thing for me to say because I think it tastes good and I have read books and seen movies about what McDonalds does to people. But I’m young, it’s good, I work out so I like to think it goes away but to think that the nuggets at a high amount can kill me and the meat is not real meat makes me sick. Why would any one want to eat meat made out of corn? 

Chapter 8: 

Grass farms are the opposite from industrial farming. Animals on the farm eat the grass and take care of it. It’s a cycle. This is where organic food comes into the modern era.

Gems:
Look at a farmer’s bookshelf; the emotion there shows what kind of farmer he is. (p.132)

"Because a healthy soil digests the dead to nourish the living, Salatin calls it the earth's stomach." (p.127)

Thoughts:
Why can’t all farms run like this? It is a better way of life for all creatures. All the extra food we have, we do nothing with. If we our not giving all this extra food to the hungry, why doesn’t everyone have organic fames? The reason I see that the famer just wants to sell their product make money and let some one else deal with what happens to it. The more food they have to sell the more money they make. But that attitude is wrong. Everything people eat starts at a farm and if food were just made naturally there would be a healthier America. 

Chapter 9: 

The idea of organic food for most Americans is a pure good substance that is made with out chemicals. But organic famers have fallen to greed just like the farmers before them. Organic farm can no longer hold the name as organic after investigations were done.

Gems:
"Indeed, the longer I shopped in Whole Foods, the more I thought that this is a place where the skills of a literary critic might come in handy- those, and perhaps also a journalist's." (p.136)

“The inspiration for organic was to find a way to feed ourselves more in keeping with the logic of nature, to build a food system that looked more like an ecosystem that would draw its fertility and energy from the sun,” (p. 183).

Thoughts:
Like I have said before any human in America wants to make money. But I thought people that ran organic farms were doing it to make America a better place because why else would you do it. This makes me lose hope in peoples willingness to change. America still has not accepted that what we are eat is bad.


Chapter 10:

Joel has a farm that he says is better than organic because it sustains it self by sun energy. The sun grows the grass, which in turn the cows eat then support it. The farm does not fit into our society because it does not fit the industrialized world.

Gems:
“Cows eating grasses that had themselves eaten the sun: The food chain at work in this pasture could not be any shorter or simpler,” (p. 195).

“We seldom focus on farming’s role in global warming, but as much as a third of all the greenhouse gases that human activity has added to the atmosphere can be attributed to the saw and the plow,” (p. 198).

Thoughts: 
This is the most logical thing I feel. It cost no money to feed or grow the crops so why wouldn’t every one do it. I still feel that people need speed in their lives. The faster they sell cows the faster they get rich.

HW 7

Omnivore’s Dilemma By Michael Pollan

Chapter 1: The industrial food chain that feeds most of Americans comes back almost to the same place every time, the American Corn Belt. We are processed corn walking because most of what we have and eat has corn in or on it. Corn is used so often because it can reproduce itself endlessly.

Gems:

“Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescent tubes, the American supermarket doesn’t present itself as having very much to do with Nature. And yet what is this place if not a landscape (man-made, it’s true) teeming with plants and animals?” (p.15)

There are 45,000 items in the average American supermarket and a quarter plus of them have some type of corn in it.

“So that’s us: processed corn, walking.” (p.23)

Thoughts: 
The first chapter caught me off guard because I didn’t realize what value corn has in our America society. It plays a big role in how Americans live. This mad me look around my home to see what was made with corn product. I had found that at least ten things in my house not food related in twenty minutes that had corn based products in them like a bellhops bell I have has corn oil on to keep it moving smooth.

I also didn’t think about how grocery stores portray their products. That they are supposed to have food from the wild but Michael’s description makes me think of a cold hearted felling. I feel and unease or a feeling that a trick has been played in me.

Chapter 2: George Naylor’s has a farm that relies on corn and soybeans to keep it alive. Corn has changed over the years with the new hybrid corns that allow farmers to plant more stalks. The biggest change in corn is the production of chemical fertilizer, were corn did not depend sun energy.

Gems:

“Several human societies have seen fit to worship corn, but perhaps it should be the other way around: For corn, we humans are the contingent beings, “ (p. 27).

"The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants." (p.37)

Thoughts: 
People should look at what they eat because while famers want to make money for less work, they are only doing this by using chemicals they don’t know the affects of on all people. Farmers are like any other people in America, they want to get rich quick. They take the easy way out even if it comes with an unknown risk.

Chapter 3: Corn has to be grown to certain standard before it is can be shown. Farmers who can produce the biggest bulk of corn receive profit from their Farmers Cooperative and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Gems:

"My plan when I came to Iowa was to somehow follow George Naylor's corn on it's circuitous path to our plates and into our bodies. I should have known that tracing any single bushel of commodity corn is as impossible as tracing a bucket of water after it's been poured into a river. " (p. 63)

"Such corn is not something to feel reverent or even sentimental about, and nobody in Iowa, save the slightly embarrassed agronomist, does." (p.59)

Thoughts: 
I thought that it was very interesting that corn is held at such high religious vales even to day in Mexico.

I also thought it was interesting that corn is and under ground business and that its not simple. 

Chapter 4: Cows have moved off farms and ranches to concentrated animal feeding operations to be feed corn. This corn also called corn–fed is filled with drugs and other proteins to up the time it takes for a cow to become right to slaughter. This change from feeding cows grass to feeding them corn-fed comes from the logic protein is protein. Researchers suggest that eating cows fed on corn-fed is bad for us because the cow now has more fats, which put us at a higher risk for heart disease. The problem is not with the cow but rather the corn its being feed.

Gems:

“Corn the plant has colonized some 125,000 square miles of the American continent, an area twice the size of New York State…” (p.65)

“(about 60 percent of it, or some fifty-four thousand kernels) goes to feeding livestock,…” (p.66)

Thoughts:

Why did Americas obtain a strong love for greed during the industrial era?

What need was there that they needed more meat faster? Where there people with money in America not being feed.

The questions above to me are what have made America what it is today. But greed is what drives everything in our country. Farmers wanted to get rich quick so they found a faster ways to make cows fat. So they could sell then quicker. But really no body needed all these cows but some one will buy them, so that they can sell them for more money and get rich. This is a cycle till some one eats it but we cant eat all of it. 

Chapter 5: Corn that is not eaten by animals is broken down into many different oils, vitamins and for complex carbohydrates. These carbohydrates are used in almost everything we eat. We are cutting the nature out of food by making chemicals out of bonded carbohydrates and using it in foods.

Gems:

We eat a ton of corn a year. (p.85)

High-fructose corn syrup is the most “valuable food product refined from corn.”(p.89)

Thoughts:

Corn that is used for everything is a thought I do not like to have but it still does not stop me from eating no corn-based products. Because for real, they’re good. The health hazard is not high enough that I feel I should stop eating corn-based goods. 

HW 6

Day 1:

Yogurt 80

Granola 140

Milk 120

2 chicken sandwiches with Mayonnaise 450

Salad with tomatoes, cucumber, cheese and onion with dressing 150

2 burritos 600

Ice cream sandwich 360

Total 1900

Day 2:

Yogurt 80

Granola 140

Milk 120

Roast beef sandwich with lettuce tomato and ketchup 500

Chinese food 300

Salad with tomatoes, cucumber, cheese and onion with dressing 150

Hamburger 350

Ice Cream sandwich 360

2 Powerads 120

Total 1950

Your calorie goal is 3432 a day

http://www.thedailyplate.com/

As a growing and very active boy I should have an enormous appetite but I don’t. I eat little amounts of food at a time to make up the almost 2000 calories. I should be eating about 3500 according to my mother, a nutrienist, and http://www.thedailyplate.com. I eat so little because I take focus pills called concerta and one of the affects of the drug besides helping a person focus, it leaves a lack of desire to eat. I can be really hungry at times and in the next moment, I’m not. I’ll eat a little and then just stop because I’m “full”. I just can’t eat anymore but I know I have to. I’m not getting enough calories and protein in my body. I am a very active boy and needs energy. To make up for the pills, I eat a lot of small meals to try to eat more in a day.

All meals of mine need to have a great balance of nutritional substance in them. So I start my day this way, with a banana & strawberry light yogurt with a fourth of a cup granola in it. Yogurt is made up of milk, which gives me protein. Granola is good for your digestive track and nuts and cranberries are fruits good for your health but especially nuts are because there, “high in protein have fiber and antioxidants” and good for you. My chicken sandwich with mayonnaise is a very good source of protein with five slices of chicken on each sandwich.

http://www.helium.com/items/824263-the-different-kinds-of-nuts-and-their-nutritional-value

  

I feel that in the last 48 hours I have eaten good food that is good for a well-balanced protein diet but I also know I have not eaten enough calories for my activity level. As I said before I take concerta, a focus medication that cuts my appetite. I feel that I have to push my self to eat but I don’t want to. I don’t know what to do about it except don’t take it over the weekend and eat as much as I can but that’s not the thing to do.

HW 5

The discourse among Americans about fast food had changed over the past years. It stated out as a good thing that everyone would eat because it was cheap, good and made fast. But it then turned into a problem because people were blaming fast food companies for making them fat. The companies were at fault according to the people because there food was so good but it was bad for you and people could not stop eating it. Then the truth was told about the food and people still ate it, so it finally hit on the main issue how they were advertising and selling it made it appealing.

People in the modern age want convenience and cheap prices for everything, which fast food is giving them in the item they use most in life; FOOD! But the people who were involved in this discourse started out small and got bigger and bigger till people realized what fast food does to people. The discourse became a dominate discourse and a big deal in society. Scientists started looked in to the link from obesity to fast food and found just as Kelly D. Brownell, the director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale found out that everyone knows that fast food is bad but the environment that people live in makes it hard to stop eating it.

The marketing of fast food became the major issue but there’s nothing that people can do beside take action for themselves and stop eating it. No one in America can tell fast food companies what to do. They don’t have to raise there prices, they don’t have to stop advertising because we live in a free county and that’s what it comes down to. There is a dominate discourses about fast food and health foods but in reality that all does not matter because the real discourse that is happing is do the companies have freedom to do what they want even though it is hurting people. I say that the companies do because if not it breaks the amendments in the constitution, which was put there to make our countries a free place. Where people get to do what they want. People should be able to stop eating it if they know its bad and if not its there fault because there is nothing making them eat it like there is nothing making them go to work to make the money to pay for the food.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/business/22stream.html?_r=1&emc=eta1 

HW4

The eating habits I have now are a lot like my eating of my parents and there parents. My mother’s parents had good food habits and she had a father who worked out. They always ate three good healthy meals a day, two of which were always spent together. My mother became a nutritionist when she grew up and got even better eating habits than her parents instilled on her. Her eating habits now are the most prices habits a person could have. Every day she eats a bowl of rice chex and low fat milk, a turkey sandwich with two thin slices of turkey on whole wheat bread and one low fat yogurt, half a red pepper and a slice of watermelon. Then she eats two measured out cups of chocolate ice cream, the only thing with calories all day. My mother only likes certain things and she watches her wait very closely. She had lived with these habits for more than 20 years.

My father came from a family with ok food habits but then he developed bad habits when he moved to Jersey. When my father got married he moved to Jersey and had an Italian wife who ate a lot and cook in oils and grease. My father then devolved better habits after marrying my mom. On the daily my father eats no breakfast, a small lunch, take out and popcorn or ice cream. He has gotten healthier since living with my mother.

My food habits have changed between both my parents’ food habits. In my younger years I was more like my dad eating what I wanted to till I was full which made me fat. Then as I got older I started acting more like my mom by eating mostly healthy food and watching calories and only eating small amounts of sweets but I don’t hold these habits as much as a life style as she does. I just watch what I eat and I need to have verity in my food. Both my parents have no verity in their food habits, which is mind blowing to me. A lot of these differences between my food habits and my parent is generational.

There are generational differences in my grandparents eating habits to the current eating habits I have to day. My grandparent’s made my mom; aunt and uncle eat together every day. They would not start eating till every one was there. My other grandparents ate together but not as much. They ate together when they could but when my dad was 13 he started working two jobs to help his family so he doesn’t really remember eating together. My parents raised me were we only would eat together on Sunday but it would not be us just eating together. It would start at 7:00 when 60 minutes was on and we would only talked during commercial, which I didn’t mind but every other night I sit in front of the TV around 6 to eat. The big change in why people don’t eat, as a family anymore is a big part of the 21^st. People before didn’t have TV’s or computers to occupy them so they did the family thing as a form of entertainment.

These theories about food ways in my family are proven in my refrigerator. My mom has her stuff, I have a verity of things but no junk food and my dad has his take out. My refrigerator is always packed because I like a verity of foods. There is no one big meal my whole family can eat together in my refrigerator.

HW3

McDonalds is what most people think of as fast food but isn’t and apple or some hand held food, fast food as well. Fast food can be health but most people look to big corporations that have taken the title as the fast food world.

The McDonalds in Union Square has bright signs where you order food. The pictures of food that looks perfect because it’s food art not the real food. When you get your own food it never looks as good as the picture. The rest of the place has dark colors and low lighting in order to make the signs look better and brighter. This is only one of the ways the fast food industry is so successful. The main reasons they are so successful is that they have cheap food in large quantities and it tastes great. The food at McDonalds as well as most fast food places is bad for you because of all the greasy that goes into the food but people like Dave B. a Native New Yorker still says, “ the food is good here and why should I go to a grocery store and pay high prices for good food. Then have to cook it; when I can pay under 10 dollars and eat till I am full.” That is the ploy that fast food companies use to bring people in. Dave is one of many over weight American with this attitude that it is just easier to eat fast food. The green market across the street would never appeal to him with high priced food not ready to eat.

Then I crossed the street to see the other side of things at the Greenmarket. The Greenmarket was outside and had very bland colors beside. Everything you see looks fresh. The vibe walking in to a green market for me and all other uninformed people is that everything is organic and fresh unlike when I walk in McDonalds. Where I know that it is all processed food. But as I walked around and talked to stands like S&So Produce Farms and Di Paolo Turkeys, which were family run farm they told me that all their veggies were conventionally grown and were not organic. I was told that the meat was all natural but not organic as well. I was shocked. I thought probably as many other people do is that the little stands would be organic that’s why they are special. Still the food at the Greenmarket is healthier for you than McDonalds.

Though the fast food industry is very successful, “the sale of organic food has been increasing by 20 percent per year for the past 10 years. It has been the fastest growing segment of the food industry.” (Tick) Organic food, which is healthier food, is coming back in to American life. It could one day change the fast food world by getting a company to make a fast food place that is healthy as well.

Tick, Paul. "Big Business Enters the Organic Market Place." Organic Consumers Association. Organic Consumers Association, n.d. Web. 23 Sep 2010. <http://www.organicconsumers.org/organic/big_business.cfm>.

Hw 1

Food is the ultimate emotional controller device in humans; it can make us happy, sad, mad and many more emotions just by tasting or seeing it. What we eat is a big part of how we act. All people eat food for a different reason weather its to get skinny or to bulk up or just for the love of eating but everybody eats.

My priorities for food have change a lot threw out my few years realizing what I eat. I used to not care what or how much I ate as long as it was good, but I ended up a heavy kid. Then I stopped eating with my best friend. We would not eat breakfast, get a small lunch if any, eat a medium dinner and NO snacks all because I wanted to be skinny. But that also changed after I was skinny, I wanted to bulk up. I still eat to bulk up so I eat a lot of protein, which is my priority when I eat food now. I hold off on the junk food, only eat three good meals of day full of protein, and drink no soda. I know that my priorities now are much better than they were in my past but they do not fill my love and joy for sweets.

My typical meal, which is, fish or eggs or chicken and always milk and salad on the side are good but I would love to just eat what I want. Like eating penne al a vodka or chicken potpies other good delish food but all really good foods are fattening. They have a lot of calories for a little amounts of food. I know I’m 16 and I should not be this worries about what I eat but image matters and I want a strong health body. I don’t mind my typical meals they are really good. And I do treat my self; I don’t live by these foods as laws. I eat sweets and pig out on a weekend but I always come back to my strong protein diet. Every night I have my special treat, an ice cream sandwich I can only get at a certain store and I’m in heaven.

Food is the internal struggle for humans in the modern era because of the way eating makes you look.