Corn

After reading An Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollen, I was astonished by the amount of corn that one person consumes. It’s amazing to see just how corn affects our lives. This one vegetable that no one really pays attention to actually has a big impact on our diets. From soda to meat, corn plays a process in it. There was a part in the book in which Pollen talks about how corn was being fed to cows; however a cow’s stomach is not acidic enough to break down the corn which causes health problems for the cows, even lung cancer. However because of the cheap prices of corn it makes it more affordable to feed the cows. A way to help this situation is to inject these drugs into the cows, but what is that doing to the quality of meat? Is that really healthy for the consumers, such as us? After reading about this I wanted to stay away from red meat. It would be nice if our foods could be safer, however it would be more expensive, and people always want more for their money. They would always go for the less expensive, less quality items that can help save them money. Not only that but for a nation has big as ours there has to be industrialized food companies, so that people can get fed. Although things are changing a little bit with farmers markets, those markets only last for the summer; so there has to be food coming in from somewhere else to feed the nation. The topic of where our food is coming from and how it’s being made is a really sensitive subject and it’s also amazing to know that corn plays such a big role in it.

The World of Advertisements.

Ads make us think that we really need the product that they are endorsing. They manipulate us into buying things that most of the time we do not need. They attract us either by using celebrities, catchy phrases, or by making the product look like its better than it really is. People fall into them all the time. Ads just go to show how materialistic this world can be. People are always looking for the next big thing, the next big product and ads live off of that. They use people’s materialistic needs to sell their products.
Covergirl always uses young beautiful models/actresses to advertise their make-up. Though their models do look beautiful they have a lot of make-up on and it takes make-up artist hours to make them look like that. The model’s lips are always the perfect shape, their eyelashes are always long and full, and their eyes are always a clear crisp color. However that image is not realistic; a lot of people want to look like that, but it’s unrealistic. It’s just an image to attract people to buy their product. Advertising companies know what the people want and they always use as an advantage to make a profit.