HW 5

It seems as though most experts in our society are saying that it is very important to eat healthy. In turn much of the view of common people is that we need to eat healthier. However, it doesn't seem that the idea of eating healthy is being stressed as much as it should be. All food experts speak on eating healthy and staying away from fast food but still fast food is immensely popular. It is becoming more popular to become healthy and therefore healthy eating is one of the dominant discourses. Any well informed member of society can tell you it is important to eat healthy.

A well informed person in our society, if they have enough money, probably eat at healthier lunch places. Stays away from fast food. If they can afford it they probably shop for organic food. I think people are well informed about health or informed enough. However, eating healthy takes effort and is not always the most convinient and I think that a large amount of people still value convience over health. There are also the people who do not have enough money to consistently eat healthy. It is quite expensive to eat at healthy places for lunch or shop for organic food. It is not made as easy to eat healthy as it is to eat unhealthy.

HW 4

My family is semi-traditional when it comes to food. At least a few times during the week we all sit together and eat dinner. One or both of my parents cooks and we set plates, forks, and knives down on the table and we all eat together. The same thing when I lived with my grandmother she would cook and we would eat dinner together. This was a tradition since I was little and that my parents also had and we still do it today. However, other meals such as breakfast and lunch we don't eat together. No one cooks for every, everyone just makes their own meal and usually eats doing their own thing, such as watching t.v or using the computer, etc.

My family's cuisine is pretty diverse. My parents cook many different types of meals. Even when we order food, we order indian food, or mexican food. There is alot of variety in my families diet. We don't have a particular way of eating our food. When we sit together people talk throughout the whole meal. My mother makes sure people have good table manners usually when we all sit to eat, pretty typical for the most part. However there is no one way we eat or food is approached. The most important thing is taste and then health is considered as well but not to emphasized.

I can see how my ways of eating are similar to my parents. I enjoy sitting down with my friends to eat rather than eating on the go but at the same time I enjoy it not being formal. Ways to eat or approach food is not strict in my household and therefore I am pretty flexible with how I eat and my main criteria is taste. My food ways are heavily influenced by my parents.

HW 3

Green markets and fast food places are basically opposites. I think it's safe to say most people shopping at the green market are against fast food. The green market has stands full of organic and locally grown food. It is emphasized that the food is organic and much healthier and green markets generally appeal to people who are conscious about what they eat and whether it is healthy or not. Where as fast food is completely different, it's cheap, hot, fast food thats unhealthy and usually isn't to sanitary. Yet I find myself at fast food places all the time and millions of other people eat fast food quite frequently. On the Mcdonalds sign it says "billions and billions served." Fast food consumers in general are much less concerned about where the food came from and how healthy it is. Fast food emphasizes convenience rather than health.

Green markets pose a threat to fast food places such as wendys and mcdonalds and therefore they have switched up their advertising. People have become more worried about health, as it is one of the new trends. It is evident in the mcodonalds commercials where the say their food is 100 %fresh and they advertise organic food where in reality the quality hasn't change. Mcdonalds response to green markets and their strategy is staying successful is adapting and pretending to be on the side of the people who sell food at the green markets and pretending to be healthy.

This is what makes fast food successful. They tailor their advertisements to fit the concerns or obsessions of people and they provide convenient fast, tasty food to people. Convenience is the most significant part to me, for the most part we are obsessed with convenience. We always try to find the easiest way to do things and fast food is one of the easiest ways to get a meal.

HW 2

Food is one of the many things in our society that is essential to us as human being but we still don't take much time to think about it. This is including myself. When i eat I am most concerned with taste and whether or not what I am eating will fill me up. This is porbably because I have yet to have a problem with my weight and therefore pay less attention to eating healthy and such. But when I think of an ideal meal which for me is being able to sit down and enjoy my food with friends I realize that my typical meal is very different from this. I hardly eat breakfast and when I do I'm busy doing other things and am in a rush to get to school. At lunch we don't have that long to eat so I find myself being a bit rushed as well. As for dinner it is a much more relaxed meal but I usually do not eat dinner with my friends. My typical meal is hardly ever my ideal meal.

Food and diet is becoming more of a topic of interest in Americans. There are much more health and food shows on now and people are becoming much more worried about what the eat. However it seems almost like a fad, it has become cool for some people become vegetarians and such. However this is a fad mostly amongst middle class people and much less amongst working class people. There are also a very high amount of people with food disorders and many celebrities suffer from food disorders. This is a very harmful thing that is not surprising to be found in our society.

We have a lot of different things connected with food in our society many of them being negative things and many being positive. We are so accustomed to some of the aspects of food in our society that we dont think much about the food were eating and the process it has gone through before we eat it.