Hidden Ingredients

MY NEW PROJECT:
            I did not like my original blog project so I thought of a different topic. My new topic will be based on food recalls and how bad food is effecting people in the United States. I will be finding my information from the past five or ten recent years and post my findings on my blog one a week. I will write about how and why these things happened in certain places and where the food that was recalled came from. The themes of my project are food and health and the morality of big food companies. What I hope to learn about are the foods that I should be eating less of and why these foods make people sick. I already know that these problems are the companies fault but I hope to further learn how they can avoid these problems.

MY OLD PROJECT:
             My weekly blog for class will be based on a research project of how many of our foods contain high fructose corn syrup, soy bean, and modified ingredients. Every few days I will look at one supermarket item in my refrigerator and look at the ingredients they contain. I will keep my eye on the foods that contain one or more of the three ingredients and report on what supermarket food I examined. Most of the foods we thought would never contain these ingredients probably do because of all the many different forms corn can be morphed into.

Our class has recently watched a movie called “Food Inc.”, and in the movie it mentioned that the supermarket is basically fooling us. All the foods that we think are so different from each other are actually very similar because they contain at least one out of those three ingredients. Corn and soy beans have recently been modified for mass production and used for many things. This includes feeding cows, pigs, chickens and even fish corn because it is so cheap. Corn has become revolutionized in America. 

            The themes of my project are basically food and health. What I hope to learn from this project is about my food and exactly what is in it. We are fooled by all these big companies that we think produce all this diverse and good tasting food, but we are really just eating the same thing over and over and not receiving the right nutritional values . The kinds of thoughts I hope to inspire my readers with are to also do the same thing that I am doing for my project. I am hoping that they will do investigating in what they eat too like checking labels and researching certain companies and how they produce their food. It will be very educational to myself and all of my readers and knowledge is power.