I honestly learned quite a bit of things from this book. I had the idea that the food industry had a heavy impact on all our lives in a bunch of ways, but I didn't think it'd be as big as Kellogg and General Mills standoff as well with Coca Cola and Pepsi alongside Dr. Pepper. I kinda take all of the ideas behind these main brands for granted because they're a small portion of out life, but really they shaped what we eat today. I never thought there was a feud with families and how they were too sugary. I'd think back then sugar was an awesome thing, and to have it in your breakfast to get you up in the morning would be awesome! But people back then apparently didn't like that idea and shut it down from the very moment it was on the shelves.
This book actually taught me what certain tastes can do for someone. I never knew that fat is just a texture and not just some "add-on" to food to make it taste better. Who'd of thought that the crunchy texture from a cookie was actually the well doing of fat and that every time you eat a hot dog, the reason it's not so rubbery is because the fat actually takes that texture away and gives it a more "edible" feel to it? It's amazing!
I for one am now going to look at food a lot differently than I did before reading this, regardless it won't really change my eating habits. I honestly look at a few products here and there and wonder, "Hey. ... I wonder if this brand went to trial." or something like that. It's really funny when you think about it. It's obvious too though because foods can cause life or death, so trial is like a "second chance" I suppose, but that's just rambling about it.
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Sunday, November 16, 2014
10 Personal Things
1. I am grateful that I met my awesome and super adorable sir. Did I mention she's a derp?..maybe a just a little bit.
2. I am grateful for the invention of smash bros.
3. I am grateful for my drawing "talent".
4.I am grateful for my friends sticking with me.
5. I am grateful for still being alive.
6. I am grateful for video games, cause most of my time would be watching paint dry if it weren't for that. (aside from YouTube and drawing... and speaking of Youtube...)
7. I'm grateful for YouTube.
8. I'm grateful for being happy with what I have and not asking for more.
9. I'm grateful for being born with an opportunity to survive.
10. And lastly, I'm grateful that I have been given siblings, cousins and all that so that my childhood could be awesome and filled with happy days.
Sunday, November 9, 2014
Incest vs Family; How Far Back Can You Still Call It Incest?
Think about it; the term "family" is just an idea to keep us at bay with our loved ones, and incest is closer than you think.
We are all "family". That can be a literal term, or a hypothetical term, or even a symbolic term. Family - technically - can go either way with what you believe it is. By a law in space and time, we are all connected in some shape or form. Our ancestors got together with other ancestors and had children to then later have children themselves. Thus after centuries of population growth, it's hard to tell where you came from a long time ago. Science today can tell you who your grandparents came from and then where you're parents came from and so on, but if you dig deep enough, you'll find that, in a long ways away in time, you could be my cousin. You could be my uncle in law, or even a great, great uncle or aunt in law, or what ever. In brief, we are all blood related in some way, because we all came from an ancestor from a long time ago. You are married to someone related to you. Does that make is incest? Where do we draw the line where we aren't 'technically' genetically related so that we can marry and produce offspring?
An interesting thing to think about, is that when people too closely related to one another have a baby, that baby is given birth defects. Whether it be physical or mental. Either way, incest mating will create birth defects. But since we are all related, due to the ancestor law, shouldn't that make all of our children born with defects? It's actually from how far away blood relation goes that depends the birth defects related to incest. It's not always certain, of course because birth defects can happen in a matter of ways such as smoking during pregnancy, but if there wasn't a problem with things like that aside from incest, then could we tell who our long lost ancestor's offspring are? Could science see this and find out how to pinpoint how far back in time can we go to find how genetically close we are to our spouse? ... It's only a thought. We are all blood related either way, so thus, we are always family. Humans themselves are family; a huge family. We share hearts and brains, and we share compaction towards one-another. Incest is actually just a thought brought by humans just as family is. How far back do YOU think you need to go back into your family tree to draw the line between incest and love? ..Think about it.
We are all "family". That can be a literal term, or a hypothetical term, or even a symbolic term. Family - technically - can go either way with what you believe it is. By a law in space and time, we are all connected in some shape or form. Our ancestors got together with other ancestors and had children to then later have children themselves. Thus after centuries of population growth, it's hard to tell where you came from a long time ago. Science today can tell you who your grandparents came from and then where you're parents came from and so on, but if you dig deep enough, you'll find that, in a long ways away in time, you could be my cousin. You could be my uncle in law, or even a great, great uncle or aunt in law, or what ever. In brief, we are all blood related in some way, because we all came from an ancestor from a long time ago. You are married to someone related to you. Does that make is incest? Where do we draw the line where we aren't 'technically' genetically related so that we can marry and produce offspring?
An interesting thing to think about, is that when people too closely related to one another have a baby, that baby is given birth defects. Whether it be physical or mental. Either way, incest mating will create birth defects. But since we are all related, due to the ancestor law, shouldn't that make all of our children born with defects? It's actually from how far away blood relation goes that depends the birth defects related to incest. It's not always certain, of course because birth defects can happen in a matter of ways such as smoking during pregnancy, but if there wasn't a problem with things like that aside from incest, then could we tell who our long lost ancestor's offspring are? Could science see this and find out how to pinpoint how far back in time can we go to find how genetically close we are to our spouse? ... It's only a thought. We are all blood related either way, so thus, we are always family. Humans themselves are family; a huge family. We share hearts and brains, and we share compaction towards one-another. Incest is actually just a thought brought by humans just as family is. How far back do YOU think you need to go back into your family tree to draw the line between incest and love? ..Think about it.
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