Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Redoing a Coppertop's Life Artifacts, Typing in CATWS/Blog 8 Part 1


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MSG stands for Monosodium glutamate which a flavor enhancer usually added to Chinese food, canned vegetables, soups and processed meats. Especially Mcdonalds, Burber King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, you name it. Many people have reported to the food companies that they have received many complaints about feeling headaches, weakness, nausea, chest pain, sweating, etc. Although now some foods are labeled to notify us which food has MSG it is definetely noticeble that it's in defense to the drug companies and they will stop at nothing to continue their profit out of this. I chose this because I live by some of the foods mentioned. You see it everywhere especially Mcdonalds at every. Even in your long road trip you see Mcdonalds ads every 10 minutes or so. There can't be nothing that doesn't have MSG. After one order of Big Mac with frecch fries I can still be hungry and order more. Especially when I was a kid you think you would be eating something regular. But it's not what we think. If there wasn't a drug then why would these hamburgers take so long to get spoiled. But still we do eat it because in the real world ignorance is bliss. All this has done to me is given me pleasure when I ignorantly eat Chinese food all day without knowing that it can either get me more fatter or give me pleasure. I do get chest pains for some reason and sometimes I get headaches and don't understand it. This is why it's too hard to prove weather or not MSG causes these because they are mild. Commonly what these foods do is they send you to the doctors so they can profit also and then the doctor reveals to you the truth, which is not to eat fast foods because it gives you cholesterol and all you can do is eat the less pleasurable foods like veggies, fruits and lots of exercise. It's hard to know this truth because you thought that once when eating fast food it was something normal but in reality it's not. Just not everyday. One thing is for sure, people keep on going and going to fast food stores because of MSG and some don't know it or don't care and the food and drug companies profit from us like if we were batteries.

5 comments:

  1. I really like that cartoon and I also think that fake chemicals are very odd.

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  2. @Chris O-- hilarious!

    @ Chris P: MSG and other additives help create the "more tasty food for less" mentality.

    The companies that put forth the idea that messing with the chemistry of things is a-ok, no problemo, really believed that back then in the 1930s and 1940s. One company, DuPont, even had the advertising slogan, "Better Things for Better Living...Through Chemistry."

    Now we know better, but very few companies want to change what they have been doing for decades because 1) it would be admitting that what they had been doing is wrong and 2)they are scared that profits would go down...

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  3. Interesting, I guess no more pork fried rice for me....

    The cartoon is funny!!

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  4. Exactly Dr.X I agree with you. My point was to simply address how I felt with eating fast food and how much people go into these stores not knowing what's behind it all. As a kid most of us would think eating these foods are "cool" and "great" but ever since I read this and with all the animal cruelty(etc) it shocked me, changed my life and hopefully for the better.

    Definitely, "no company will ever admit this", true. Similar to the Illuminati. Spreading the word and changing is all we can do, I guess.(?)

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