HW #5

Dominant Discourse is basically how people are with eachother depending on there specific position and there specific background. An example is like when im pitching and my catcher and coach are telling me to throw a certain pitch I would listen to them or argue to them that I can throw another pitch that I am confident on they are in the dominant discourse if some one from the stands says throw this pitch then they wouldnt be in the discourse becuase they dont have the authoritity or the specific position to be in the discourse. Food fits in the conversation because many people have different things to say about food and what is healthy, or what tastes good there was a qoute in the New York times that said, “Before we want health, we want taste, we want convenience and we want low cost,” Mr. Balzer said in a New York Times article. He argues that most people care for what tastes good and is cheap instead of what is healthy.

The articles were basically on doctors explaining what is healthy and what is good for someone to eat or not eat it shows that doctors should be visited when it comes to getting information on what is good to eat and what is not good to eat. It seems like obese people are not being asked questions and they are being over looked in the whole food and weight issue. I feel that obese and overweight people should as much say as a doctor or someone from the food industry.


A reasonably informed member of the society would most likely eat healthy and would try to inform them selves of the risks of fat foods and they would check the calories of the back of the labels. She would probably get food from a place with healthy foods and things that are fat free. She thinks of food differently then the people who just go off buying food instead of looking at what those calories and sugars can do to your body. She took the time to look at articles and shows talking about the food problem. 

HW #3

Well there were a couple of similarities and differences in both the green market and McDonalds. They both had plenty of costumers but there was a difference in the age group in McDonalds there were a lot more younger people then there were in the green market. Both places have different variety of foods but in the green market there were a lot more healthier foods, there were a lot more greens and there were a lot more healthier meat such as turkey sausage. The reason why I think that McDonalds was a lot more succussful  then the market was because it had a lot more younger costumers and more costumers that were most likely unaware of the health risks of eating McDonalds. This relates to the discussion we had in class about how younger people eat a lot more unhealthier then older people. There eating habits change.

Honestly the food in the green market was a lot healthier then the food that they sell in McDonalds. I over heard some one who worked with cows in the green market, he talked about how with McDonalds they fatten there cow with hormones and with the cows he uses they dont fatten them with anything and they treat them for different things. In the green market there were also at least 2-4 different areas with fruit and or other greens that were healthy. I think that food is pretty sacred because there were plenty different people who actually brought there business to the green market to give people a taste of there food. There was a guy from Arlington, New York there talking about his beef and there was a guy there who had Wild Arugala. I go to McDonalds way more then I do go to the green market and when I think about that I feel like I should go to the green market I felt that the food there wasnt that bad but it was a lot more expensive.

HW #2

Today we started the food unit. We talked about food and it the way we were talking about it made me think about it a different way. We talked about food being sacred and i think that food is sacred and that it is important everyone has there own favorite meal and many different countries have there own kind of food which makes me think that food is sacred. My favorite meal is something that can fill me up and keeps me satisfied for the day and i think i should be eating a lot more healthy and i should start to spend less money and start to eat a lot healthier. I have many priorities in food they have to taste good and it has to keep me full and it should be cheap so i can save money for other things. Things like pizza or chinese food, or maybe subways are great places to buy food and it satisfiy my priorities.

My typical meal usually fail to meet the desire for my ideal meal. My typical meal usually something my mom cooks that really doesnt satisfy me or doesnt taste as god as my ideal meal and i think that if i would want to get my ideal meal everyday it would satisfy my desire. To me it goes back to is food sacred having a typical meal is pretty much sacred and to me seems like a ritual for me i always have breakfast, lunch, and dinner and that is like a ritual to me and seems very sacred to me.