Blog Entry 9: Food Perspective Video: Pink Slime

The topic trend continues once again as I bring to you, my fellow classmates, an entry about fast food. Everyone has heard of McDonald's pink slime found in the US or credited to US fast food chains. Everyone has seen the video and everyone has come to some conclusion about the wholesomeness of fast food, and to that I say "Well duh, it's not wholesome."

America has become the trademark of consumer culture. We make money, we buy things, repeat. In the consumer culture, we, as a nation, want to spend as little money as possible for as much as possible. Whether we know it or not, we are endorsing practices such as "pink slime".
'You cannot get something for nothing', 'You get what you pay for', 'Have it your way'. Do these phrases sound familiar? They may as you probably grew up hearing one. Flashy products such as iPhones are hip and in the now and everyone must have one; little do people realize, by buying an iPhone they are supporting child labor. Does it matter? I think to most people it wouldn't. They would just shut it out. It is not really a part of "our" world. "Our" world is a place where you can have Mongolian for breakfast stop at Bestbuy for the newest flatscreen, catch Mexican food through a drive through and going on a shopping spree at the nearest shopping mall. Child labor doesn't fit. Food that is the cost of what you pay for doesn't fit. "Our" world is a place where you are given money that has value only because of faith in the almighty dollar, so you can buy a meal for under two bucks.

    The food industry is just the most recent thing to come under fire of a newfound conscience in America today. Hopefully, it will spread to other areas and maybe even other countries, but I doubt it. The machine that is the American people cannot run smoothly with too much strife. Thanks for reading, I'd love to hear other peoples' horror stories behind products that we buy.