This week, in our blogs, we have been asked to find 3 of the most interesting quotes that we have read. Along with finding our quotes, we are supposed to respond to them by connecting them to ourselves or with the book. I find some interesting quotes from what I have read over the past few weeks...

"Twenty-five years ago, only a handful of American companies directed their marketing at children... Many working parents, feeling guilty about spending less time with their kids, started spending more money on them" (Schlosser 42). This is relevant to me because I have seen many parents do this to their children. They ask the kids if they want to go to McDonald's and of course, they'll say yes. That way, the children are happy and the parents feel good because they have made their kids happy. This happens everyday and has happened to me, too.

"The taste of a fast food fry is largely determined by the cooking oil. For decades, McDonald's cooked its french fries in a mixture of about 7 percent cottonseed oil and 93 percent beef tallow" (Schlosser 120). Everyone thinks that McDonald's has a secret recipe that they cook their fries in, but really all restaurants use almost the same thing. It just depends on how much of each they use to get their taste. The fries are really unhealthy, but people still keep going back for more and more.

"Tyson supplies its growers with one-day-old chicks. Between the day they are born and the day they are killed, the birds spend their entire lives on the grower's property. But they belong to Tyson. The company supplies the feed, veterinary services, and technical support...It hires the trucks that drop off the baby chicks and return seven weeks later to pick up full-grown chickens ready for slaughter. At the processing plant, Tyson employees count and weigh the birds. A grower's income is determined by a formula basted upon that count, that weight, and the amount of feed used" (Schlosser 141). Tyson gets it very easy. They supply the chicks, don't have to worry about taking care of them, then get paid. When the company gets the chicks back, they are already full grown so they can kill them and then sell them. Even though the growers get some money, it is nothing compared to what Tyson gets for doing no work. I think the company should have to raise them because then they would be working for their money, instead of having other people do the work for them.


Lastly, we were asked to look at a classmates blog and respond to one of their level 3 questions. I chose Calli's blog to respond to. She asked: How would you deal with the pain of losing a family member?


If I lost a family member, I would be very upset and probably be in a stage of not knowing what to do anymore. Eventually, I would start to accept the fact and move on. It isn't easy losing a loved one, but sometime, you just have to let go and go on with your life. It would be tough, but we have to realize they're in a better place. To deal with the pain, I'd think about all of the good times we had together and then start to move on because there is nothing I could do anymore to make them be with us still.