Saturday, October 16, 2010

Problem Posing method

The problem is that MacDonald’s corporation has gotten in to controlling every single aspect of it branches. The form in which this problem takes is the actions of MacDonald’s in how they treat the people who work for them. It causes their workers to be treated without respect and unfairly. They also control the congressman by bribing them to oppose laws such as OSHA was trying to enforce. The consequences of these actions are shown by its workers, robbing the MacDonald that they work at, because they are fed up with how they get treated and their minimum pay job. Also the congressman taking money from bribes leads to the unregulated laws that could help these workers avoid being victims and statistic to how many die in a MacDonald robbery. This relates to how capitalism politics works. Those with money have the real power. One quote I found in the books is “spokesmen for MacDonald’s admitted that polygraph tests had been administrated but dined that any coercion was involved “p.g. 76 P2. This shows how much MacDonald’s is controlling their workers. I choose this quote because it’s a tactic that MacDonald uses to stop any unionization of one of its branches. The speaker is the author of the book. When I use to work for my older brother, He would want things to be done in a certain way, and at a certain time frame. It was difficult because he didn’t understand it took time. It’s his own private business so he runs it the way he needs it. Over time he came to understand it was hard work and he gave me more time. But this isn’t happening to MacDonald’s. The first step I would take to solve this problem is to start bribing congressman to oppose laws that MacDonald’s is trying to input for its own benefit, especially those with a lot of control. I would work with many of the groups that study McDonalds and those which try to help the worker. The second step would be to regulate the unfair laws in existence that gives big corporation like MacDonald unfair advantage towards their business. This would allow fair completion in the free market and an equal chance for everyone. It would help workers all over create unions and raise wages since the congressmen won’t think about the next paycheck from MacDonald but the next pay check from me and they would be glad to help the people with less power in the workplace for money of course.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Descriptive Writing

A familiar smell captures my attention; the noise all around me goes numb for a second.  My eyes ferociously moving side to side, my nostrils opening  up wide, looking for any sign to match the smell with the source. Around the corner there is a glowing yellowish light across the floor of a parking lot. My stomach begins to grumble. Walking towards the light the smell begins to fade away, almost as if it where fake in a way. Lights are reflecting from the outside lamps in the front, inside the lights of the restaurant and the big archers standing tall like a casino light with an M right on top of the jackpot.  
As I open the door the familiar symptoms of the Archers appear, the janitor mopping the restaurant with a tired look on his face, very old man at least in his 60s. As I walk by the janitor he mumbles about something. I want a big Mac with the meal, she begins to type I gave her the cash. The people in the back begin to move around. By the time I turned around I had my coke and fries, the big Mac came 30 seconds later, never wondering where my food came from, I start to chew.  Food taste great, as am walking away from the known and into the unknown the feeling of the archers stays with me even long after my next visit.

Monday, September 13, 2010

welcome to food ethics by peter

Hello welcome to my blog, my name is Peter, am posting this blog for my College class Research Paper about food ethics, me as a person I like to eat food, their is something special when a certain taste or craving is meet.
       My eating habits are not the best, but I do like to cook food at home, it gives me a  satisfaction of knowing how my food was prepared, I try to cook at home as often as I can, 4-5 times a week. I haven't gone shopping for food since I was a child, but everything in my refrigerator is organic.
       The foods I eat at home are, rice, beans, oven roasted chicken, fried beef, green beans, and spinach, combined with mixed  salads that contain fresh, carrots, lettuce, tomato, green peppers, and red peppers with a little balsamic vinegar. when am outside all bets are off am talking about ,cheeseburger's pizza, hot dogs, salads, battered fried chicken , if its eatable I will eat it.
       My favorite food has to be grilled (anything) , there are many things a person can grill, I like to grill, red onions, chicken, steaks, ribs, potato's, and corn. I really love to grill things because it brings back a warm feeling I had as a kid were the whole family got together at someones house or at a park. the women would gossip about everyone and the kids go out and play and the men cook in the grill, when the food was ready no matter how far away I was I would be running towards the smoke of the grill. Sundays were a whole day long of eating, relaxing and just having a good time.
       There is always that x factor when your eating your food, were did your food come from not just from the supermarket but what farm it came from. When we eat are food we don't really like to think about it because maybe the truth will make us sacred to take other bite of our delicious food. I want to believe that my food isn't mixed with manure or that no killer pesticide were added or that the animals had a good life while on earth and that they are not genetically modifying their DNA to make them bigger.  I think our vegetables and fruits still some from fields but our meat comes from factory like buildings that contain hundreds of animals and they are killed and packaged.

Thank you for reading
- peter