10 topics for the final paper

1. School vending mechines.
2.Why companies are allowed to add high fructose corn syrap to most foods if it is vary harmful for people's health.
3. Subsidies organic food company.
4. How dairy products are produce.
5. what is the differences between nutritional ingredients and real food.
6. How meat companies are continuing slavery.
7. what FDA actually does for people's health.
8.caning proces.
9. Food company workers regulation.
10.Food flavoring.

Tahmina's personal responce for food stamps

The article "New York asks to bar use of Food Stamps to buy sodas" by Anemona Hartocollis is about the argument that if food stamps should be used to buy soda and other sugary drinks or it should not be used. Mr Hacker said in this article that " the world would be better, I think, if people limited their perchase of sugared beverages". I agrre with him, because too much sugary drinks is not good for health. I Also agree with Tom Laskawy who said that food stamps should be reserved for whole, nutritious foods such as meats, gran, dairy, and fresh fruits and vegetables rether than the sugary drinks, because no one should have right to use public money for unhealthy foods that causes illness for consumers.















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Tahmina's personal responce about supersize me and food inc chapter 2

The documentary movie “Supersize me” by Morgan Spurlock open my eyes to see what inside the fast food especially the McDonalds foods in America. The name of this movie already told you what are making you super in size. There is no doubt. If you want to ask a question about why are Americans so fat? The supersize menu of McDonalds can give you an absolute right answer.

    When I was in my country, I heard a lot about American food safety and believed that American government strictly care about its people’s right and health especially children’s health. I left so much back to my country but was happy to think about that this country would give me and my daughters an opportunity to have a bright future and at least healthy food to eat and live healthy lives. As I go deeper and deeper to know about the American food industry, it always made me so scared and upset. If you could not get healthy food, you never can get bright future because health is wealth. The truth of American food industry threw me up in the dark and made me so wrong- very wrong.

      By reading Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation and watching supersize me, now I could tell you how McDonalds, one of the biggest food companies in the United States are encouraging children to buy their infected foods to destroy their future health by providing play ground in the stores, adding plastic toys in the meal and producing cartoon characters in their commercials.

 The most upsetting thing is that school lunch that most parents and students believed healthy are not different from the food of McDonalds. Now I am really concern about my daughters health because I could help them stop eating food from McDonalds but how could I stop them eating school lunch. Like my daughters most children believe that what they learn from school is very true and what they eat from school must be healthy. There can not be anything wrong in school. Poor children!

 American government should stop going war to save the world from its imaginary enemy before having a war to save American people from its infected foods.

Tahmina self review

Writer’s Name: Tahmina Haque

Paper Title: The quality of Heritage Diet vs. Present Diet

Date: 03/18/11

Editor’s Name: Tahmina Haque

Peer Review Worksheet

1.      What can you identify Introduction: How does the first paragraph introduce both the paper’s topic and the writer’s approach or general conclusion? Is the first sentence attention-getting and relevant to the topic?

 -  I think the introduction is ok. It is clearly related to the topic that writer wants to compare   and it unambiguously gives a view point about the whole essay

 - Yes, its first sentence is attention getting and relevant to the topic. 

1.   As a thesis statement? (Re-write it below) Suggest, if possible, a way to improve the introduction or thesis statement.

- Thesis: “the quality of ingredients for this recipe, like rice, vegetables, lentils and spices has changed over the time because food is now grown and processed commercially by using chemicals that helps make the food less healthy than before”.

- Suggestion: “by using chemicals from soil to food, the ingredients for this recipe like rice, vegetable and lentils has become less healthy than before”.

3.                  Structure: Can you identify the organization of the paper from the main idea of each paragraph? What are the main concepts explored in the paper? Does each paragraph make a relevant point that is distinct from what has already been covered? What are the main conclusions?

- Each paragraph has its thesis statement that is very easy to identify because it is the first sentence of every paragraph. Also the organization of the paper can be identified from the main idea of each paragraph.

- Of course thesis sentence is related to its concept. The main point of this paper is about the quality of food and how this quality became bad over the time.

- Each paragraph explored is clearly related to its thesis. All the paragraph of this essay has a relevant point that already has been covered.  

4.                  Clarity/Style: Did you find distracting grammar, punctuation, spelling, or word usage problems? Identify any patterns or themes you detect. Is the tone of the essay formal? If you find awkward sentences, try to explain why they don’t make sense to you.

- This paper has some grammar and clarity issue.

- There are some repetitions. Some sentences are really long.

-Need to pay attention to the verb form and word form.

5.                  Resources: Does the author clearly identify his/her sources? Is proper in-text and reference format used?

- Sources are very clear and that can be identified very easily.

- Writer paid attention to use qualitative sources and she put the work cited at the end of this essay that is really important.

6.        What is/are the paper’s greatest strength(s)? Explain.

- The strength of this paper is to its good organization. It also provided all the information that is collected from the reliable sources.

Five sources

The five links that I decided to use in my revised essay.
1.http://www.healthywyze.org/index.php/fertilizer-dangers.html
 this link will help me to know and write about the senthetic fertilizer and their effects on foods and human body.
2.http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs225/en/
this link is about the dioxine used on vegetables and how they effect in human body.
3.http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/pesticides.htm
this site is about the pasticide on fruit and vegetables and their bad effects.
4.Book: Fast Food Nation- Eric Schlosser
this book will help me write about the secret of American food Industry and how they captured American people's diet.
5.Article: Unhappy Meals-Michael Pollan-New York Times
this artical will help me write about what we should eat and what we should not

Food Inc reading response

                                                           Food Inc

       In Food Inc, film maker Robert Kenner tried to display our nation’s food industry. He actually tried to expose the highly mechanized food processing system that has been hidden from consumers with the help of our government’s regularity agencies USDA and FDA. The nation’s food supply is now mainly controlled by some corporations that are making profit ahead of customer’s health, the American farmers, the safety of workers and the environment. Even though we have bigger-breasted chickens, perfect pork chop and insecticide resistant soybean seeds, we have E. coli- the harmful bacteria that cause illness and death.

 In this documentary film, we saw how cows, pigs and chickens are growing very faster in the factory by getting high caloric chemical based foods and antibiotics. Chickens we saw grown in a factory could not walk and its organs barely worked but never seen daylight. Caretaker pushed the food in a fantastic way directly to the cow’s stomach, so it does not matter if a cow wanted to eat food or not. Farmers sometimes do not want to do that but they are being under control by the food corporation. The owner of the chicken farm (the lady) said that they are (farmers) treated by companies like slaves. Farmers didn’t even open their mouth to anyone. The author and co-producer Eric Schlosser went through a supermarket and said that most of the colorful variety foods stuffs come from five corporations like Tyson, Farmland or Smithfield that now control 80 percent of the food market in the USA.

       The industry does not want you to know the truth about what you eat by getting their foods. Barbara Kowalcyk lost her 2- year-old little son Kevin because the boy ate food (hamburger). Kevin was infected by E. coli bacteria and died 16 days after he ate two E. coli bacteria infected hamburgers. Yet, if Barbara knew about the food she gave her son, she might not lose her son forever. Barbara now is an activist and she carried a picture of Kevin with her when she lobbies on Capital Hill.

        Producer Robert Kenner introduced us to a low income family buying burger from a fast food drive-way that makes real economic sense to me. It is cheaper to buy double burger with soda instead of buying the non-subsidized head of broccoli or an apple. Yet there is that hidden childhood obesity and incident of diabetes for adult. The real fact is that low-income persons like the introduced family who know the fact about the effect of fast food, but they have no choice.

     We know the organic foods are good for us, but are those affordable for everybody in the USA? Joel Salatin, a farmer who tries to help people by producing organic foods in his own farm. The good thing is that, he is an independent farmer. The government never subsidizes for his farm to sell the food in cheaper prize but the government always subsidized a lot for all the food processing companies to make their foods cheaper. The most interesting thing is that, the government tried to close Joel’s farm because they think he made the environment polluted by processing chicken in an open house.

         In conclusion, even though the film Food Inc scared me about the processed food, it gave me an excellent opportunity to know the hidden information about the food. This film made me think about what I should eat and what I should not eat. What I learn from this film is that we need to think about our health before make food choice.

     

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