blog 7.

1) Post your favorite lyrics, poem, or quote for this week.

Hurry up and waitSo close, but so far awayEverything that you've always dreamed ofClose enough for you to tasteBut you just can't touch

2) Develop two reflection questions that you would ask your students at this point in the course if you were a UN100 Professor.
What was the most rewarding lesson of this class?
What would you change about yourself, your habits, your priorities after taking this corse.

3) What are you passionate about? Why?
I'm passionate about people in my life. I'm passionate for friends, family, and people that left an impression on me. I feel this way because i feel life wouldn't be life without friends... family.. and strangers who leaving with the question what if?

4) How are you going to finance your three years of the Radiology program?
I took out student loans, I'm going go work and start to pay it off, and once i get my job, i will work at paying it off.

If you will be in debt from student loans at the end, calculate roughly how much you will owe upon graduation.
about 30,000 dollars.

5) Have you changed your mind or do you have any new concerns about your program of study after our guest speakers today (Dr. Foley & Joanne)? Yeah, i started to change my mind. i don't want to sit around like I'm going to have to.

Are you thinking of a different major or are you dead set on Radiology?
I am indeed thinking of a different major, not sure what but something in the medical feild.

What behavior(s) will you maybe have to change in order to keep up with and make the cut?
its just based on getting my prereqs done and going from there.

6)

FAST FOOD NATION (You should be reading through Chapter 7 at this point)Reflect upon the opening lines of Chapter 7:"You can smell Greeley, Colorado, long before you can see it. The smell is hard to forget but not easy to describe, a combination of live animals, manure, and dead animals being rendered into dog food."
yeahhh.. umm this is gross. I'm so glad marquette is normal and not easily described by its smell :)

-Have you ever read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair? If so, how does it relate to FFN?
No i haven't read this book. It seems like it would talk about the meat packaging places and how unhealthy dirty it is.

-How high is the employee turnover rate in the meat industry and why don't the packing plants see this as a problem?
The turnover rate is about 80%... The meat industry doesn't care because this job is so easy to master without any specified skills. Anyone can package meat without education or other training besides the on the job training when they start the job.

We discussed captive supplies of cattle versus regular farming. Reflect upon this quote from page 150:"To supply the beef slaughterhouse, ConAgra operates a pair of enormous feedlots. Each of them can hold up to one hundred thousand head of cattle..During the three months before slaughter, they eat grain..The grain fattens the cattle quickly, aided by the anabolic steroids implanted in their ear."
This is so gross and sad. How would you feel to know your born to eat and be slaughtered. It makes me sick how this world resorts to such extremes to make a profit.


-Do you think that these animals' emotions (fears, stress, anger) affect the meat we eat derived from them? How?
I never really thought about it, but now i'm sure it does. It's just like any human, your stress, anger, and fears affect your health so im sure it does the same to these animals. You can get high bloodpressure, heart disease, and other illnesses that are effected by your mental health.

-How do you feel about eating steroids via consumption of "USDA Inspected" beef?
I almost want to become a vegetarian.. it really grosses me out to think my meat isn't really meat at all.