Family/pg. 442: two or more people who consider themselves related by blood, marriage, or adoption.
Most people do not really pay attention to the fact that our families have a great impact on the types of foods we eat. For the most part, yes, our food choices are our own, but our family and people around us also influence the types of things we eat. If we are with people who want to eat at a fast food restaurant, we are likely to join them even if we would not ordinarily eat from such locations. The video showed a mother who had to feel her family on a relatively small income, so often times she would get inexpensive fast food. She was falsely under the impression that this food had health benefits for not just herself, but her husband …show more content…
This e coli laced hamburger made her son very sick, and killed him in twelve days. Is there anything more a hospital could have done to assistant this young boy and his family? Maybe not, but the video showed this situation as having been treated more as a disease in a child rather than a child who had a disease. The family impacted by this tragedy was set to the side, and the illness was put in the limelight. Fortunately though, the video emphasized how these were real people in a real situation. They showed video of the young boy, Kevin, on the beach right before the tragedy, and the mother’s movement to prevent other families from having to experience what she and her family have, by passing Kevin’s Law. When diseases are being treated, they should not be personified more greatly than the human beings who are being affected by diseases. When food factories manufacture their food, they need to be aware of the people this food is going to, and how the health benefits or lack thereof in these foods affect those eating them. …show more content…
The poultry is not just one animal in a package, but hundreds, maybe even thousands. Each individual animal is at risk of disease, and if just one of them is sick, then the entire vat is contaminated. With the way these assembly line type farms are run, it is impossible to check every animal for illness. Even if they could though, chances are they would not do this, because it is not efficient to do so. The animals are kept in unsanitary housing situations. The industries involved in these processes do not want the consumers to know what goes on behind the scenes that bring us our foods. The corporation’s heads are perfectly fine with having their farms be run like factories. Since food is in such high demand, farms are no longer raising chickens, but instead they are raising food for slaughter. By doing so in such bulk, it leaves little room for the sanitation needed.
Most people do not really pay attention to the fact that our families have a great impact on the types of foods we eat. For the most part, yes, our food choices are our own, but our family and people around us also influence the types of things we eat. If we are with people who want to eat at a fast food restaurant, we are likely to join them even if we would not ordinarily eat from such locations. The video showed a mother who had to feel her family on a relatively small income, so often times she would get inexpensive fast food. She was falsely under the impression that this food had health benefits for not just herself, but her husband …show more content…
This e coli laced hamburger made her son very sick, and killed him in twelve days. Is there anything more a hospital could have done to assistant this young boy and his family? Maybe not, but the video showed this situation as having been treated more as a disease in a child rather than a child who had a disease. The family impacted by this tragedy was set to the side, and the illness was put in the limelight. Fortunately though, the video emphasized how these were real people in a real situation. They showed video of the young boy, Kevin, on the beach right before the tragedy, and the mother’s movement to prevent other families from having to experience what she and her family have, by passing Kevin’s Law. When diseases are being treated, they should not be personified more greatly than the human beings who are being affected by diseases. When food factories manufacture their food, they need to be aware of the people this food is going to, and how the health benefits or lack thereof in these foods affect those eating them. …show more content…
The poultry is not just one animal in a package, but hundreds, maybe even thousands. Each individual animal is at risk of disease, and if just one of them is sick, then the entire vat is contaminated. With the way these assembly line type farms are run, it is impossible to check every animal for illness. Even if they could though, chances are they would not do this, because it is not efficient to do so. The animals are kept in unsanitary housing situations. The industries involved in these processes do not want the consumers to know what goes on behind the scenes that bring us our foods. The corporation’s heads are perfectly fine with having their farms be run like factories. Since food is in such high demand, farms are no longer raising chickens, but instead they are raising food for slaughter. By doing so in such bulk, it leaves little room for the sanitation needed.