Blue Gold

While watching, Blue Gold there was number of thoughts that went through my head. What happened to start this "crisis" and if the cooperations are selling all this water for as much profit, then how are we in a recession. it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.

Lets start out with why this all got started. what I got from the film was that industrialization covered the land and didn't allow the water to soak back into the earth and continue the cycle. Apparently we are using too much of the water, I find it to be a really simple solution. Theres a million things that we are doing as a society that is wasteful to our water sources. For one, everyone insists on washing their cars at home, at car washes, the water gets recycled and used again to wash another car. People take hour long showers when it only takes 10 or 15 minutes to get clean. Water parks only serve the purpose of wasting water. Just almost everything we do wastes water, its ridiculous.

Second of all, my question is why the hell are we in a recession if companies like that make so much money, wouldn't it make the economy go up from all the sales. Everyone needs water and so many companies sell it now for so much money and every company in the world uses water in even the smallest way. I feel like so many of the worlds problems could simply be fixed if people would just have a heart and think of the right thing to do instead of what money says to do.

QQC

"A normal pig would fight off his molester but a demoralized pig has stopped caring "learned helplessness" is the psychological term and its not uncommon in confinement operations where tens of thousands of hogs spend their entire lives ignorant of sunshine or earth or straw crowded together beneath a metal roof upon metal slats suspended over a manure pit." I find it interesting that animals learn from birth depending on the living condition that they are put in. Its curious to see that a pig would act in such a way under conditions but merely born in a different location can give it an entirely different opinion on life.

Annotated Bibliography

Possible essay subject: What is the history of the food that is served in san diego schools.

http://www.sandi.net/20451072011452577/site/default.asp

"The focus is on offering meals that are nutritious and well received by students."

"Program Goals

• To provide healthy meals daily to students, preparing them to learn and guiding them in the process to develop positive life-long eating habits.

• To meet USDA and State nutritional guidelines.

• Continue to expand program access to student meals.

• To remain a financially self-sufficient department.

• To continue to look for partnerships and coalitions among public and private sectors to enhance programs and quality of food."

Possible Essay topic: Eating disorders in san diego

http://www.eatingdisordershelpguide.com/trends.html

"Doctors around the country have seen an increasing number of young victims of anorexia-some as young as 8 years old. While this may represent increased parental awareness of eating disorders, it also reinforces current research that suggests a strong genetic component to the development of an eating disorder rather than simply environmental pressures."

Possible Essay Topic: Relationship between fast food and obesity

http://weight-loss.emedtv.com/obesity/fast-food-and-obesity.html

"This means that you could eat fast food on a regular basis and not become obese. In fact, you can even lose weight while eating fast food. This, however, requires knowledge of not only how many calories you are burning on a daily basis, but also the calories in the food that you are eating."

The Cove

The Cove is essentially a documentary about how the Japanese are killing dolphins by the hundreds. The camera and the side we are supposed to be following is the sides of the Americans that are trying to stop it from happening. They show footage of Japanese trying to get Americans arrested and trying to stop cameras from showing what’s actually happening. This movie doesn’t at all allow the viewer to come up with their own opinion because the whole movie is trying to use shock factor and human’s weak side of pity to get them to believe what they are saying is true. They never show the Japanese side. All they show is dolphins dying. As a viewer, I feel like they are trying to hide something, also as a viewer, I don’t buy into pity that’s pushed so hard on me, I want to be able to have pity for cases that deserve it, not ones that are just because someone loves sea world too much. The opinion that they are presenting has lots of video footage to try to get their point across. From the first second of the film, the makers try their hardest to get you to like dolphins so that later when they show them dying that it would hit you harder. Just like I said earlier in the paragraph, they spend all their time showing images trying to play on people’s pity instead of presenting facts, it preaches to the converted.

Local Food Questions

1. Why would one buy locally as opposed to long distance. If they cost the same one, then what would make one better than the other?

2. Why do they send food so far to different places if they have places that are closer making the same things.

3. Does location change quality of the food?

4. Why be a commercial farmer if the benefits are bad?

5. Since the world is getting new technology and new ways of doing things, bigger and better, then why hasn't our way of getting food better?