Final HumanGeo Test results

                                                             I got a 47 out of 50.

Human Geo Test

Practice Test on Map

38 out of 50

Kelly Food Map

Click this link to see my google map of where my food in my food journal came from . . .

When you click on the link clike om the My Maps tab. Then, click it again! Then choose the Kelly's Food Journal Map!

Check it out!

http://maps.google.com/

My food traveled about .......  19,300 miles.
A average diesel truck gets about ............... 5 miles per gallon.
The average price of diesl gas is .........2.825.
It cost about .............. $10,900.

My Personal Essay:

Throughout this project, I have found many surprising things about food and where it comes from.  These facts have made me think about what I eat and why I eat the things I do.  It has made me stop and think before I take a bit out of something as simple as a cheeseburger. I become plaqued with thoughts of possible food poisoning, the inhuman treatment of the animals, the bad working conditions of the people who made it, and so on and so on. What I have learned these past few weeks have changed me and the way I eat.

 The movie Food, Inc. scared me and showed me the truth behind my food. I found out that I was being tricked. I don’t know about you, but I do not enjoy being lied to or deceived. You would think you would have the right to know about the food you eat. I also found in this section that the products with pictures of olden time farms are most likely not pictures of the farms themselves. For example, Hidden Valley Ranch is most definitely not in a hidden valley. This you may say you knew already, but I am positive you didn’t know that it was a factory. I even ask myself what a hidden valley has to do with the dressing I put on my salad. We constantly fall into marketing traps and other lies simply because we don’t know any better. People have the right to know about their food, but the people who work for food companies are doing just the opposite. They are taking every step possible to insure you do not find out! Now whether you call this lying is a judgment call, but either way I can most certainly tell you it is not right to treat people this way.

Honestly, before this project, I had not put any thought into where my food came from or what it could do to me. From the beginning of our life put our trust in my parents that they will provide us with good, healthy food for us to grow and thrive on. Our parents put their trust in grocery stores and food corporations. What happens if this food is not healthy? Personally, I did not think that food poisoning and E. coli were something realistic that could affect me in my own home. The movie showed me that E. coli in fact is very common or that it could go as far as to kill you. I am not sure about you but I had never imagined that I would die by eating a cheeseburger! People die every day from there food. This makes me think. Is food not to help us survive and thrive? Is food not designed to make you healthy?

One thing, I found interesting from the movie was that food is designed in chemical labs and plants to taste good. Scientist create foods, however unhealthy as they may be, to be the best tasting and somewhat addictive. The reason junk food is the so addictive and tasteful for us is because it is one of the more rarities in nature. This means you don’t usually find a bag of potato chips growing on a vine. However, you might find a potato. What I get out of this is the question of if we can engineer food to taste good why can we not engineer good healthy tasting food for everyone to eat?

Do you have a vegetarian friend you make fun of? Well, ironically, they are the smart ones. The meat you eat is most likely from a large cattle farm. That cow you ate probably stood around for mouths because there was no room to walk because of how many other cows he was shoved in a tiny pen with. That pen probably had over a foot of cow poop in it and tons of flies smarming around. Plus that cow ate corn. What is the big deal you might say? The big deal is that cows are not supposed to eat corn. They are designed to eat grass, but on these “farms” you will not find any grass.  In nature there is not just a bunch of corn laying around for cows to eat, so then why do we feed the cows corn? The reason is that corn is extremely cheap and easy to get.  Government programs pay money to support farmers who produce corn. In fact, they strongly try to get farmers to produce as much corn as they can. Therefore, the factories find corn to be the easiest and cheapest way to for them to feed their cows, but this corn, once digested in the stomach will created terrible things because it is not properly digested. This is because cows are supposed to eat grass. Inside a cow who ate corn diseases like E. coli form. This is why my vegetarian friends are smart. This discovery made me think about becoming a vegetarian.

I found in my food journal all of my food comes from North America. This fact surprised me as I had heard many of my fellow classmates have a lot of food from outside the country. I know that most likely this is not the case all of the time. If I had eaten more out of season fruits, I probably would have had more food from other countries. Still, my oranges had come all the way from Florida. Also, if I had eaten more meat, I would have most likely had more food from the center of the United States of America, because that is where most of the large cattle farms are located. Even though I didn’t have a large number of my food from out of the United States of America, my Oreos were from Canada.

This project has made me look at my food and my world in a different. If they hide something as simple as where my food is from me what else are they hiding? What is really in my food? This project has made me think when I am in the grocery store. Now I think I will reach for the food that has the U.S.D.A. Official Organic Stamp on it. I think I will even try to go to the farmers market more. I have really enjoyed this project as a chance to learn about my food because it has changed my view on food.

Food Journal

Monday October 4, 2010

7:30pm - Dinner

Soup:
-Barilla Whole Grain Rotini(Made in Bannockburn, IL;U.S.A.)
-Birds Eye Mixed Vegetabkes(Made in Rochester, NY;  U.S.A.)
-Mama Lucia Meatballs(Made in Shillington, PA;U.S.A.)
Drink:
-Zeigler's Apple Cider(Made in Lansdale, PA; U.S.A.)
Rolls:
-La Brea Bakery Rolls(Made in Van Nuys, CA; U.S.A.)
-Smart Balance Butter(Made in Paramus, NJ; U.S.A)



Tuesday, October 5, 2010

6:20am - Breakfast

Cereal:
-General Mills Honey Nut Cheerios(Made in Minneapolis, MN; U.S.A.)
- Giant Skim Milk(Made in Landover, MD; U.S.A.)

9:30m - Brunch

Food:
-Armor Bacon(Made in St. James, MN; U.S.A.)
-Aunt Jemima French Toast Sticks (Made in Allentown, PA; U.S.A.)
Syrup:
-Aunt Jemima (Made in Allentown, PA; U.S.A.)
Drink:
-Poland Springs Water(Made in Wilkes Barre, PA; U.S.A.)

11:00am - Lunch

Drink:
-Juice Tyme Lemonade (Made in Chicago, IL; U.S.A.)
Food:
-Transit Fare Gummy Bears(unknown)

1:20pm - Snack

Candy:
-Now and Later(Made in Round Lake, Minnesota; U.S.A.)

7:00pm - Dinner

Drink:
-Well Water
Salad:
-Giant Rotisserie chicken(Made in Landover, MD; U.S.A.)
-Giant Sharp Chedder(Made in Landover, MD; U.S.A.)
-Foxy Iceberg Lettuce (Made in U.S.A.)
-BoltHouse Farms Carrotts (Made in  Bakersfoield, CA; U.S.A.)
-Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing (Made in Northfield, IL; U.S.A.)



Wednesday, October 6, 2010

7:00am - Breakfast

Cereal:
-General Mills Honey Nut Cheerios(Made in Minneapolis, MN; U.S.A.)
- Well Water

12:50pm- Lunch

Drink:
-Coke(Made in Atlanta, GA; U.S.A.)
Food:
-Calise Bakery Rolls(Made in Lincoln, RI; U.S.A.)
-Boars Head Deluxe Ham(Made in Landover, MD; U.S.A.)
-Pepperidge Farm Goldfish (Made in Norwalk, CT; Baked in U.S.A.)
-Nadisco Oreos(Made in Canada)

4:00pm - Soccer Game


Drink:
-John Carrol water


7:00pm- Dinner


Drink:
-Well Water
-Coke(Made in Atlanta, GA; U.S.A.)


Food:
Bagelmeister Bagel Plain w/ Cream Cheese (Douglasville, GA  30135  U.S.A.)


8:30pm - Dessert
Candy:
-Reeses made by Hersey(Made in Hersey, PA; U.S.A.)






Thursday, October 7, 2010


7:00am - Breakfast


Food:
-Homemade Zucini Bread (From the Garden)
Drink:
- Well Water


8:30am - Snack


Drink:
-Starbucks Double Chocolate Chip frapicino(unknown)
Food:
-Safeway dounut(unknown)


12:50pm- Lunch


Drink:
-Coke(Made in Atlanta, GA; U.S.A.)
Food:
-Calise Bakery Rolls (Made in Lincoln, RI; U.S.A.)
-Boars Head Deluxe Ham(Made in Landover, MD; U.S.A.)
-Pringles made by Pringles (Made in Cincinnati, OH; U.S.A.)
-Nadisco Oreos(Made in Canada)

4:00pm - Soccer Practice

Drink:
-John Carrol water

7:00pm- Dinner

Drink:
- Simply Orange Orange Juice(Made in Apopka, FL; U.S.A.)
Food:
-Craft Food's Oscar Mayer Bacon (Made in Northfield, IL; U.S.A.)
-Giant Nauture's Promise Eggs(Made in Landover, MD; U.S.A.)