Food Log Reults

                After researching the ingredients in food that I ate over a twenty-four hour time period, I realized that organic food is not necessarily organic. Also, I learned that there are some ingredients in food that cause sleepiness. For example, after looking up the ingredients in turkey, I found that there are different types of cold cut meat products. First there are whole cuts, which are the more expensive because the meat is cooked and then seasoned with spices or sugars then sliced. Secondly, there are sectioned and formed meat products which are made from different pieces of meat and then bonded together to make one single piece.
Finally, there are processed meats which are made through emulsion or non emulsion. Emulsion is where the meat is finely chopped, then hydrophobic proteins react with fat, and hydrophillic protein reacts with water to hold in the fat solution. Non emulsion is in a way the same process; however, no massaging or grinding of the meat is needed. Another thing that shocked me about the meat was that there are enzymes as well as nitrates and compounds which are known to cause cancer. The reason this shocks me is because the FDA does not seem to interveigne on this, nor do other organizations. The companies that produce meat and meat like products seem to be backed by some organization in order to continue the production of their meat.
                  When I was looking up information for a bag of Sun Chips, I found some of the ingredients such as pork enzymes quite interesting. Due to the use of pork, it is not kosher or vegetarian. There are chips made that ay do not contain pig enzymes, but to me, the fact that chips have a meat product in them is quite interesting. I feel that if there are meat products in chips and they are labeled so people could actually read the ingredients, then people would not eat sun chips as much.
                  After looking for the ingredients I ate within the twenty-four hours, I realized that not only have I consumed a large amount of calories, but I also consumed many different acids, enzymes, and oils that I would not think are in certain foods.
          

Born Into Brothels Reflection

         The documentary, Born into Brothels, deals with children in the Red Light District. The Red Light Ditrict is a place where buildings are close together, there are small dirt paths for the roads, children are chained up to posts, and women are lined up along the streets at night. In the first paragraph of the first chapter in Half the Sky, it describes what the Red Light District is like. It also talks about how mothers raise their children to be prostitutes like they are. In the documentarty, one of the mothers does not want her daughter to attend school, because she wants her to enter the line. Later on in the reading, it talks about how the more wealthy girls are more likely to stick to their virtues; whereas the women in poverty are more likely to compromise or overlook their morals. Also, people tend to ignore the needs of people in poverty more than they do with those who are wealthy. Another thing that is relevant to the documentary is that women are beaten down both physically as well as emotionally in the brothels.
               In the second reading, A Crime So Monstrous, it talks about slaves in Haiti. The story begins with a descrption of what it would be like to purchase a slave and what you would see as you go to Haiti. In class, we did group projects on various subjects, and one of them was child slavery. Although we don't see much of it around Michigan, but it still very much exists. We talked briefly about how we don't know much about it, because we are not around a place where it is well known. In the reading, it talks about how police rescued a twelve year old from a home in Miami. They took bought the girl, brought her to the United States, and forced her to clean their home, sleep on the floor, and eat garbage. The police found out that the son of the couple had raped her since he was 9 year old. We did not talk much about this in class, but it just brings the slavery closer to our world. In the documentary, a little boy was briefly shown chained to a pole, not wearing any pants. This little boy was chained up to be sold; whether it was for slavery or to be in the sex trade, the little boy was considered an object, not a person. When people are trafficked, abducted, sold into slavery, and forced to become prostitutes, they are not seen as people, but objects that people can use however they choose. In the documentary, viewers are able to see the Red Light District through the eyes of the children of prostitutes and drug users. They too, are beaten for not doing anything, their parents got upet at the children for not doing something they were not asked to do. Also, the children are in an environment we'd see as negative, but it is normal to them, because it is what they have grown up with. It is normal within their societal structure to see people do things that we may consider improper, illegal, and wrong. To the people in the brothels, it is all they know. Some people know that it is not good to participate in such behaviors, but some see it as good. Near the end of the second reading, it talks about how bad is good for people involved in slavery as well as prostitution.