Do we really know what is in our meat?

What is really in our meat? Up into reading chapter 9 of Fast Food Nation, I didn’t know. I always knew that ground beef wasn’t the most healthiest thing to eat, but i never really knew that it could kill children and the elderly as well as get people seriously ill. Ever since I was a little girl i would eat ground beef, so to find out I could have suffered being ill or could have lost my life over one specific food that was popular in my family is tragic. E coli is what was found in the ground meat caused by mad cow disease. E coli is known for causing deaths in children and also bringing a disease to people who suffer with bloody diarrhea.
Another issue i found disturbing was reading about the three teenagers who got caught on a video tape showing them putting their spit, urine, and cleaning products into the food while preparing it in a Burger King in New York. Also in Los Angeles local fast food workers were caught on video tape sneezing into their hands , picking their noses, licking salad dressing of their fingers and flicking cigarettes into food being prepared to be served. I can only imagine what other things fast food employees do to the food being served. This disturbs me because we as customers eat that food and we don’t even know if their hands are clean or if they prepared it right. This can endanger our lives and can possibly lead to death.

Food and their flavors

The (I)nternational (F)lavors & (F)ragrances is the worlds largest flavor company and produces approximately two thirds of flavor additives that are sold  the U.S.  What is food without flavoring ? It would probably taste bad or like nothing, but then again all those different types of flavors have so many bad chemicals that can effect us health wise. We basically get manipulated into eating foods because of how they smell, taste or look. Every food has a certain flavor or flavors and its all added chemicals to that food. Just knowing about everything people can add to food that can improve the flavor of a certain food is disgusting because reality is we don’t really know what we are eating anymore. I knew fast food and junk food was always so bad for you but really didn’t know how bad. Chapter 5 talks about french fries and where they come from and reveals the secrets that were hidden behind fast food corprate walls. Mcdonalds french fries secret to the best tasting french fries was because 93 percent of the french frie had flavoring of beef tallow and the other 7 percent was the flavor of the oil they used called cottonseed oil. This percentage of oil and tallow in the fries is more beef fat then in a hamburger.  It makes me mad that corporates are so selfish and eager to make money and they don’t think about us as the people who consume their foods will get affected by these different chemicals and not knowing whats really in the food. We shouldn’t have to be scared to eat something because we don’t know what it contains, we should be able to know what exactly is in the food and what our food is being cooked in, but for that to happen that means most of all fast food restaurants would be out of buisness because part of their buisness is all there hidden secrets about the food.

Mcdonals and vegetarians

Invention blog :
The issue I will conduct research on and write about is Mcdonalds and vegetarians. I will research the problems that mcdonalds has had in the past, effects their food have gave people , and why they really don’t have labels. The reason I picked this problem is because since I have been reading Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, I have been paying more attention to the fast food and noticed that not one food wrapper or cartage has a food label saying what it contains. With no food labels we don’t really know what we are putting into our mouths, this is what attracted me to this problem because on page 278 the issue was about a jainism man Hitesh Shah who’s religion prohibits them to eat or wear animal products, not to mention is also a vegetarian ate mcdonalds french fries and found out they had animal products for flavor. He was then very angry because he went againts his religion but really didn’t know until he read it in Fast Food Nation. Mcdonalds lost a costumer who regularly went there to eat due to this. I believe everything should come with food labels just like the grocerys we buy at the store so we can know what we are going to put in our mouths to eat. Not knowing what is in the food doesn’t only affect vegetarians, it also affects people who are allergic to certain ingredients.