In Mark Bittman's article "Bad Food? Tax It and Subsidize Vegetables", he talks about the ideas of taxing unhealthy foods. He thinks that if he makes them more expensive people would stop buying the and choose to eat something else that is cheaper and hopefully healthier. Corporations will continue to advertise unhealthy foods as long as they keep getting paid. These corporations don't necessarily care about the consumers as much as they care about the money that is going into their pockets. In Alice Waters and Katrina Heron's article "No Lunch Left Behind", she is mainly talking about the National School Lunch program and how bad it is for the kids. The foods that are served do not meet the food standards and the kids aren't getting the proper nutrition that thy need. These children are being taught at a old age to eat the wrong this. The obese rates are going to keep rising especially when the kids continue to eat unhealthy.

For my research project i am talking about low income areas and why they have so many unhealthy places for the people to eat without having healthier resources.

https://search.proquest.com/science/docview/215086421/2BC56F7F680A47A9PQ/1?accountid=164484

In Mark Bittman's article "Bad Food? Tax It and Subsidize Vegetables",  he suggest the idea of taxing unhealthy foods, such as; soda, fries, chips, and doughnut. Bittman believes that by taxing these food it will discourage the purchase of them. Companies don't care about the consumers' health, only their money. So corporations continue to advertise and influence Americans to bu and eat bad foods. By creating this food tax, it is estimated to generate $13 billion a year income and reduce consumption by 24 percent. In Alice Waters and Katrina Heron's article "No Lunch Left Behind", it introduces the idea that the National School Lunch Program is not a good program at all. In this program it gives $9 billion for school cafeterias, but that money isn't just for food but other services in the cafeteria. Schools offer children unhealthy and bad quality foods that are pre made and heated before serving. Many of the foods sold fail to meet nutritional standards. We start teaching our children unhealthy eating habits at a young age. The food served to them is no shock to the rising child obesity rates.

My essay is on food related diseases in America and one source I found to be very informational is the movie What the Health on Netflix by director Kip Anderson. It has a lot of information the relation between the food we eat and the diseases it causes.

In Mark Bittman's article, Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables, he addressed the concepts mainly about placing taxes on unhealthy, more processed food. He stated that there's a high obesity rate and many other health problems across the country that must be changed. Placing these taxes would influence people to buy foods that are healthier because they'll be cheaper, avoiding foods with higher taxes. People today want to eat healthy but it's become too expensive. Taxing "junk" foods can effect companies but at the same time may help the public to choose better organic foods. This can only happen if the government gets involved in the public's health so people can contribute to healthier food choices.

In Alice Waters and Katrina Heron's article, No Lunch Left Behind, there is an issue with what the government funds for school lunch programs. Most foods served at school is more unhealthy than fast food meals. They keep doing this because it's cheaper. Resulting meals continuously fail to meet the lowest basic health standards. Every student deserves to have a good and healthy lunch provided to them at school concerning a child's health.

My topic of my research paper is about how plants and animals are produced for food and if it's safe, healthy, and humane for consumers. This source gives information on exactly how animals are slaughtered and treated so people can understand that something has to be done about it.

http://www.sustainabletable.org/274/animal-welfare

Greed over health

When reading over the Bittman article, I was surprised at what I found. Bittman explains the idea behind taxing unhealthy food and making the healthy food cheap and easily accessible, the opposite of what it is now. This seems like such a logical and intelligent plan to lower the amount of diabetes and heart disease patients in the country, yet, this plan is hardly being used anywhere in the country. Just because it's cheaper to produce processed foods, they get marketed more and appeal to those who can’t afford organic food. This shows where the government’s priorities lie. It isn’t the people they are concerned about, its money. This is further explored in the article by Alice Waters, only here the focus is school lunches. Schools have similar priorities as they hardly have any money to begin with. When there is so little money to work with, you start having to cut corners and make sacrifices. In this case, the sacrifice is the good health of the students. The health of the students should be one of the most prioritized aspects of the school. What good are top grades if the person behind them is slowly killing themselves with the food they consume?

https://www.epa.gov/safepestcontrol/food-and-pesticides

The topic I am writing about has to do with pesticides in food. This website above talks all about the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and what they do to ensure that consumers are not in any danger from the food they eat.

[KC]: First Course of the PoF Blog

Hi all!

Here's your first course of the blog.

Task 1: Read and understand the Bittman and Waters articles in your packet.
Task 2: Respond to them in a blog post:
   --- What main ideas are presented in the articles? What information do they provide about the food industry and how politics ties to it? Are there any great points which might help your research?
Task 3: Provide one reputable source you've found that might help someone with a similar research topic as you. This could be a link to an article, a video, a chart, etc. Be sure to state what your topic is so that others will know whether or not this source will help them.

Then, comment on at least one other post.

This first course is DUE Wednesday, March 21st by 6pm. 

[KC]: "Your Food Story" Instructions

Remember, we're writing this in class tomorrow during our Freewrite Friday time-slot. Brainstorm a bit tonight to get your ideas gather. It's reflective, but you are also a CREATOR in this.

One of the short stories that was really my favorite was the one about the Romero and Juliet love affair. I was hooked on it from the beginning and it was a page turner. It really broke my heart how he had died at the end and she just threw his body. What a dang shame. I know how each short story is suppose to tie in with the main story however I never really understood how that short story connected with the main story. I have a feeling it might be with how estroven and ai was kind of flirty. It was almost like it was Romero and Juliet. Especially how ai has hated Estraven for a good part of the book and then it was almost like he started gaining feelings for her or him.