It all taste the same and has no feelings

     Recently I’ve been reading “Eating animals” by Jonathan Foer. He has been talking about how the companies that have these animal plantations don’t care about how they are feelings. Many of these animals are abused and left to die.  These corporations believe that these animals a piece of property and that they don’t have feelings. They hide the truth from their customers and don’t let them see what really goes on. People eat the burgers not realizing that the burger that they are eating was a cow or chicken that had feelings. There are many people in different countries that eat different animals. To them is a habit and it’s their culture but to us it’s a culture shock. We have man’s best friend with us every day and we care for them as if there were our own children. We have a connection with our animals and can’t bare the sight of our companion getting hurt and left to die. Although to these other countries its more meat that they have but to them it’s like having a burger and Mc Donald’s: it all tastes the same.

Bliss Point and Homeostasis

David A. Kessler. M.D wrote an article which talks about the end of over eating. A main point that he brings up in his article is called “Bliss Point” (pg 14). A bliss point is when a person gets to the highest point in pleasure from what they just ate; they then lose the essence of the product. Many food corporations understand that by adding more sugars, fats, and or salt to their products that some customers would not want to come back. Many fast food companies balance out what they put in their foods so they can continue having the customers come back for more. This causes many of the customers to become overweight. Since we continue to back to these fast food restaurants, our balance (homeostasis) of eating when hungry and stopping when full becomes unstable. We continue to eat because of the palatability that we get in return.

Connections

In the book Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser he brings up three points that I thought were significant in the book. He talks about how “the organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization” (p5). On page 172 he also talks about the slaughterhouses are not safe places for people to work. Schlosser also talks about what and how these animals are being feed and made bigger.

I think that the connection between the three things that stood out to me the most was what some of these companies do behind our backs. They feed animals other animals and other harmful thing; but this benefits them. Therefore many of these companies want the customers to trust them rather than the other way around. This way they can do whatever they want with the food and know that the customers won’t know. Also many people get hurt when it comes to producing the food. These slaughterhouses are not safe places.

Throughput

In the book Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, he talks about the labor practices of these fast food businesses. He mentions that these businesses have a high "throughput' rate. I believe that throughput is the amount of work/goods a business can produce. In the book he says that a small amount of people can produce a massive amount of goods for a business. Since these businesses produce a lot of goods, they can send out the goods to the businesses. The faster the throughput is the happier we are.