Blog # 13

What does it mean to be an "informed citizen?" If more people were "informed", what would it mean for our local community and for our country?

Being an informed citizen means that people are being aware of the things that happens around our community and the world. They are hearing both side of the story instead of one. If more people were informed in our local community and our country they would be aware of things that are happening around the world and can make a big difference. They can pass on information faster to other people. Also if more people our informed about something  bad that is going on we can prevent later on in the future. By being aware, it would make people around the world have a happy life. It make us think about things that happens around our world. By being informed we can plan and maybe have an outlook of the future.....

blog assignment #12

Step 1:

What is your purpose in doing this research?

We wanted to learn more about the coke company after watching "supersize Me". Also since it's the biggest soda company in the world it would be great to see what part of the world consume this product. We also chose this topic because we wanted to know the good and bad benefit of coke. We want to educate others about this company and make people realize that it isn't good for your health.

• How coke affect the environment, health, and consumers.?
  

What do you need to find out and why?

• Process production and why it's cheaper than water sometimes?
  

Step 2:

Make a List of Specific Question

• What is the price of making coke?
  
• How they produce coke/ types of people that work there?
  
• How they produce coke?
  
• How much profit coke makes?
  
• Why coke became popular?
  
• What national economy consume coke?
  

Step 3:

Develop your research plan

What are the three main issues you will research and report on?

• cost of coke, health, violation on workers.
  

Key words:

• cost of coke, health, violation on workers, globalization
  

Key phrases:

• comparing the price of water to coke....
  
• consequences of drinking to much....
  
• salary for workers a good pay or not....
  
• history of coke and what part of the world drink coke....
  

blog # 11

Should fast food companies be held responsible for the obesity problem in the US?  Defend your point of view.

 I think that fast food companies should be held responsible for part of the obesity problem in the U.S. I would blamed corn farmer that have an over production of corn and are making product for business to buy and sell to consumer. Instead of doing that they should grow those crop and distributed evenly throughout the world, that is one of the factor of hunger. Fast food should be held responsible for some part of it because they should know if their food that consumers are buying health or not and how will it affect the consumers health after they buy the product. Fast food restaurant should put the nutrition fact on the label of what consumers are buying so that they won't buy so much and realized how much calories they are intake form fast food than from the food they eat at home. If fast food company make healthy product for the consumer to buy than later on they won't have law suite against people being overweight from fast food product. If business like fast food didn't buy unhealthy product from other corporation and process food to sell to the consumers I think that our society right now wouldn't have an obesity epidemic.

Why do you think these messages (from Supersize Me, Omnivore's Dilemma) are being sent?  Why the current interest in food politics?  Explain your answer.

 

 These message from supersize me and Omnivore's Dilemma are being sent out there because they want to make people realize how eating fast food can lead to obesity and the main place it came from was eating at fast food restaurant a lot and corn farmer who produce so much but end up feeding so little people by making the choice to process the food in many ways. The decisions that farmer decided to make after  growing their product depend on a lot of people around the world. Some part of the is starving and other parts are eating too much. If we distribute are crops evenly throughout the world and make less process food the obesity epidemic would be lower.