open letter katarzyna harasim

20-07 Woodbine Str 3L

Ridgewood, NY 11-385

31 May 2011

Assistant Minority Leader Robert L. Hedlund

State House

Room 313-C

Boston, MA 02133

Dear Senator Robert L. Hedlund

This is Katarzyna Harasim from New York City. It’s time we had a talk.

I grew up in Poland a country that isn't one the wealthiest, but I grew up with healthy foods. There are

so many farmers there. In fact my grandma and grandpa had their own fields of carrots, potatoes,

tomatoes, strawberries, greens, fruits. They had their own cows and chickens and pigs that they fed with

healthy grass. They knew what went into the animals and the food. I grew up eating healthy, wholesome

foods. Right now I’m attend school at LaGuardia Community College in New York city and am taking

English 101 course in which we are watching Food Inc. movie and I cannot tell you how angry it made

me also sick to my stomach to see how workers at shutter house treat the animals. How there is no

respect. How the cows and chickens die because of fear, dirt also oversight. My point is that latter on

these same meat we are consuming on our dining tables. According to Stephanie Ernst author of article

” Animal Use and Abuse Statistics” says every year, 10 billion farm animals are slaughtered for food in the

United States , 27 million each day and 19,000 every minute also Animal agriculture uses 37 percent of

all pesticides and 50 percent of antibiotics and produce huge to water pollution, danger for human and

nonhuman animal health and life. I am writing with the hope of appealing to your heart, your

conscience, and your common sense. We need new regulations for slaughter houses right now animals

living out their lives in darkness and immobility without the sight of the sun, of a generation of men who

see in the animal they rear only its conversion to human food. We must change the way animals are

raised put new regulations and laws on slaughterhouses and made them naturally organic farms . Farm

animals have the right and deserve to live a good healthy life till it's time to be food.

USDA and FDA should more care how farm animals became our meat at the grocery store, make sure

that these animals are treated right and slaughterhouses clean and and not so horrifying.

Everyone loves chicken but when we take a closer look how they got from farm in to our chicken table

We would not be capable to take a bite. Paul Shapiro in his article “Time to crack down on chicken

abuse” is talking how chickens are terrified before they end packed . 300,000 of chickens are tightly

growing in a dark, dusty, dirty chicken house at once. They are eating from the machines above them or

stuff that end up on the ground .Employees every day are sent in to throw out dead and sick chickens

after that put them into compost, that will find direction to get back into food chin. Also in past

chickens use to grow in to the adults age in 3 months, right now it’s six weeks.Its just because Because

companies want to have chicken with bigger breasts. These birds are that grow in 6 weeks can not walk,

balance and support them selves , their bones are so easy to break, because of growing too fast and

making growing their big.And its not just chickens that are obuse pigs are eating trash or caws that are

ment to eat gras are feeteng corn witch is not cabyble for them to digest and growing deep in manure.

That frome our meat comes from, And im truly against these disgusting farming. We need changed that.

Farm should be full of love and respect for animals that we will eat. The USDA and FDA should make

sure by making new laws that all farming animals are raised in

natural way, grass feed, and free walking.

In United States legal system we don’t have any specific laws that specify describe at what condition

farm animals should be raised. Farm animals the one that are raised for meat, egg, milk are most

abused by industries in the United States, according to the author of article “farmed animal and the

law” numbers are phenomenal almost abstruse . Investigations and industry whistleblowers have

discovered abuses on farms and at slaughterhouses that are so awful. Normally people cannot abide to

see them. Contempt their huge amount, and the badness of abuses farm animals. Farmed animals

receive not enough protections by our legal system today.

We need changes, and we need them now. In our country we should develop creative legal plan that

allow us to progression also develop above current law, and farm animals get finally protections

under our law. Please fight for each animal that we will eat. I would love to see green, lovely

and not harmful farms. That respect and treat animals without putting in them antibiotics and making

them sick. That would allow all of as to eat healthy meat. Thank you for reading this and your precious

time.

Sincerely,

Katarzyna Harasim

Stephen's Open Letter

Secretary of Labor Gary Locke

200 Constitution Ave., NW

Washington, DC 20210

Dear Secretary Locke:

First and foremost, I wanted to thank you as head of the Department of Labor for promoting and developing the welfare for the workers of this country. Because of your efforts, average workers like myself enjoy rights that are protected in the workplace and the opportunity to make advancement for a more profitable employment through training. But what caught my attention is something tragic that has been happening in the workplace for the past several decades. The owners and managers of our country’s fast food restaurants have not been providing the proper training their workers need to be safe and productive. Instead, they are left on their own to figure out how to work and how to run a piece of machinery. As a result of their lack of training, fast food workers have suffered countless injuries and have unknowingly served unsanitary food to the public. I urge you to examine the fast food restaurants’ training policies and fight for the welfare of our workers.

The lack of training provided by the fast food chains has endangered the lives of their workers, sometimes even causing debilitating injuries. That is what happened to one man in Jefferson County, Texas named Richard Stubbs in a fast food chain called Sonics Drive-In. Although he wasn’t properly trained and didn’t receive assistance or proper safety equipment, Stubbs was told to clean the filter on a deep fryer. Because he didn’t know to how to properly clean a fryer, he injured and aggravated the disc and nerve root in his lower back. The injury caused permanent and debilitating damage (Holleran). Can you believe that? Imagine working in a dangerous environment without any adequate training. You are almost bound to end hurting yourself or others since you don’t know what you are doing or if it is safe. But many fast food workers find themselves in this very situation. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) found that “adolescents working in the restaurant industry in general were at six times greater risk of sustaining a work-related burn injury than teens working in any other industry. Nearly half of all burn injuries involved hot grease. Such injuries can be prevented by … training employees in safe work practices, among other precautions” (Blosser). I understand that training takes time and money. But the time and money used for training more than compensates the time and money lost because an employee can’t work or can’t be productive due to an injury (Daniels). But most important, fast food workers are more than just employees. They are our neighbors, relatives, friends, cousins, brothers or sisters who are trying to make a living. With all the work they are asked to perform, the least fast food companies could do is show their workers how to do it properly. After all, we are humans, not cogs in a working machine.

Proper training for fast food workers not only benefits the employees, but also the customers. Since they handle and serve our food, the quality of a fast food worker’s training can be directly related to the quality of our food. Unfortunately, we at times get the short end of the stick. How many times have you heard of hair or pieces of a rubber glove served with the food? I’ve heard enough horror stories regarding fast food to make even the strongest stomachs turn. In a Dateline NBC report, they surveyed thousands of fast food restaurants and compiled their inspection reports. They found that McDonald’s “averaged 126 critical violations for every 100 inspections, the highest average in our survey. McDonald's was the only chain where hand washing was the most commonly cited violation. Either inspectors witnessed employees not washing their hands or the restaurants had inadequate handwashing facilities” (Thompson). Can you imagine that? And these are the very people who serve the billions of people who eat at fast food restaurant. Yet we misplace our trust in them, thinking that they are trained to be conscious about food sanitation. That is why your help is so important. Our health and well being are in jeopardy without someone to intervene in our behalf.

To make matters worse, our government has provided fast food companies with subsidiaries for training. But instead of using the money for its intended purpose, fast food companies have provided minimal to no training while pocketing the rest of the money. In 1996, an investigation conducted by your department confirmed the restaurants’ treacherous dealings:

Through federal programs, the [fast food] chains have for years claimed tax credits of up to $2,000 for each new low-income worker they hired. [The] investigation concluded that 92 percent of these workers would have been hired by the companies anyway – and that their new jobs were part-time, provided little training, and came with no benefits. American taxpayers have in effect subsidized the industry’s high turnover rate, providing company tax breaks for workers who are employed for just a few months and receive no training (Schlosser 72).

I was shocked to learn how my taxes are being misused to support minimal training and or zero training. We face enough economic problems in this country. Police, teachers, and hospitals are cutting back due to a lack of funds. Yet, why are fast food companies receiving subsidies for something that they don’t provide? Are they more important than the services provided by policemen, teachers, and hospitals?

I exhort you to act on our behalf and cut programs that provide federal subsidies to fast food companies to “train” their workers. Create stronger policies on fast food owners and managers to ensure that they provide the proper training fast food workers need and stiff penalties for failing to do so. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

A concerned citizen

Stephen Sanidad

Works Cited

Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The dark side of the All-American meal. New York:

Houghton Mifflin, 2004. print

Holleran, Kelly. “Fast food worker claims boss knew of previous injury when assigning task.”

setexasrecord.com. 14 May 2009. Web. 24 May 2011

Blosser, Fred. “Most teen worker injuries in restaurants occur in fast food.”

cdc.gov. NIOSH. 22 Dec 1999. Web. 23 May 2011

Thompson, Lea “Dirty Dining.” msnbc.msn.com. Microsoft National Broadcasting Company.

13 March 2005. Web 25 May 2011

Daniels, Stephanie. “Cost of Workplace Accidents and Injuries.” ehow.com. Web. 1 June 2011

Huining Chen's open letter

67-29 197st
Fresh Meadows, NY 11365

24 May 2011

Senator Patty Ritchie
Dulles State Office Building, Room 418
Watertown, NY 13601

Dear Senator Ritchie:
I am a college student in LaGuardia Community College, New York. I am writing you because of a very universal issue that happened on children has deeply touched my heart. In my childhood, the package of food is not as colorful as today’s. Yet back that time would also have cartoon characters in order to attract children. Nowadays almost every snack packages would covered by various of cartoon characters. I feel like it is quite a normal phenomenon, however, I recently noticed that there are some hidden problems for this issue. In David Orr’s report “Cartoon Characters Are Making Your Kids Fat” on the news web called “Change” he states that “The researchers found that an overwhelming majority of kids in the study — 85 percent — chose snacks with a cartoon character on the packaging over an identical snack with unadorned packaging”. The fact that these cute and attractive cartoon characters can in some way influent children’s choice toward food which might lead to unhealthy eating habits makes me pondering whether these lively appearance on package is good or not. Maybe neither you nor me cannot deeply understand this reality issue since we haven’t experienced by our own, but face to the more and more serious obesity rates of children, how can we not paying attention to it?
Once step into any grocery store, the most possible place where children would running to is snack shelf. And of course, since the biggest mart for snacks is always children, most snack companies like to corporate with cartoon companies then put their characters on the package to attract kids. However, the consequence for this could be negative towards children. In Arielle Levin Becker’s study “Kids Think Foods Labeled With Popular TV Cartoon Characters Taste Better” Christina Roberto, a graduate student at the Rudd Center and lead author of the study said that “To me, what this shows is that the influence of characters is really so powerful, they're powerful enough to actually have kids think that the food tastes better and that they want to choose it for snacks". Cartoon characters influent children’s choice which will encourage them to get more snacks since they like the characters, yet by doing this, they will also get more weight virtually. Adult can figure whether one food tastes better than another by “really” taste it, but from children’s aspects, all they think is that they like some certain cartoons, thus, what they most likely to figure the concept “better” is their preference appearance.
After buying some “pretty looking” snacks, what would you think kids would likely to do? Combining with my personal experiences, I can really understand how kids will get bad eating habits by having bunch of snacks before meals. If you have ever had a kid in your family, maybe you could possibly find out that kids can really having snacks instead of their formal meals. Proper amount of snack won’t bring bad effect, but, they are children, how would we expect them have enough ability to consider the consequence of eating excessive snacks? Once a bad eating habit has been developed, it’s hard to alter. Nevertheless, obesity is not the only consequence brought by bad eating habit, but also might lead to anorexia.
According to every articles or reports I have ever read, I found a “funny” similarity, that is, all the packages which have cartoon characters laying on would work out only if they advertised on junk food, but for those that contain healthy food would certainly not work out efficiency. “Using the power of cartoon characters for good--to market healthy foods--may be less effective than restrictions on junk-food marketing”, says Roberto in Sarah Klein’s study “Cartoon Characters Attract Kids to Junk Food” in “CNN Health”. The use of characters to brand healthy foods might not be and effective strategy because whatever on that package, there is always a concept inside children’s mind—healthy food won’t taste better than snacks, or, in other words, junk food. After knowing this matter of fact, would you feel sad about the reality? For me, definitely, yes.
In my opinion, set a limit for snack companies to get access putting cartoon characters on package would be feasible. The cartoon companies shouldn’t indulge junk food companies to label their characters on the package only for their business profit but ignore the serious outcome it would bring to children. Kids are innocent, they shouldn’t be the victim of companies’ revolution of profit ambition. What if the kids involved in this revolution are the persons you care about? Do you willing to see they are getting health problems just by eating the pretty covered “devil”? I think nobody want to see this sadly result.
I hearty hope you can pay attention to the issue I stated and take a deeper pondering of it. Please fight for our younger generations, do not let their favorite cartoon characters lead them to an unhealthy condition. I would love to see our children can grow up happily and healthily. Thank you for your time; I know how valuable it is.

Sincerely,

Huining Chen


Becker, Arielle Levin. “Study: Kids Think Foods Labeled With Popular TV Cartoon Characters Taste Better.” Courant.com.
http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-cartoon-food-marketing-0621-20100621,0,2776506.story. [Web.] 21 June 2010

Klein, Sarah. “Study: Cartoon characters attract kids to junk food.” CNN.com.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/06/21/cartoon.characters.junk.food/index.html. [Web.] 21 June 2010

Orr, David. “Cartoon Characters Are Making Your Kids Fat.” News.change.org.
http://news.change.org/stories/cartoon-characters-are-making-your-kids-fat. [Web.] 23 June 2010

Sojie's Open Letter

1360 Broken Dreams Boulevard, Cryogenic Freezer 10

26th of May, 2011

Mayor Michael Bloomberg
City Hall
New York, NY 10007

Dear Mayor Bloomberg,
Greetings. I am a current student at Laguardia Community College, and I am writing to express my concern over a little touched upon but, in my opinion, important subject. Though it has been more than 5 years since I left middle school, and even longer since I attended elementaryschool and kindergarten, one aspect of those times in my life keep coming to mind as I study the food industry for English 101. Once a year, from kindergarten up until 8th Grade, my school would hold fundraisers, which were usually sponsored by a large company. The idea was simple; you would get a prize depending on how much money you raised selling candies, magazine subscriptions, and other stuff. The prizes would range from plastic bracelets to headphones to a radio or speaker system and onwards, with the highest prize I remember being a motorized scooter. All of the students gathered in the auditorium would scream and yell and gasp as the announcer for the fundraiser held up some of the prizes, demonstrating their uses and exciting a few hundred children by waving a tantalizing, potentially fun item in front of their faces. Afterwards, the children would be in a hurry to receive the large white envelopes containing the order forms and brochures. As a
further reminder of what they could be rewarded for their hard work, a poster showing
all the prizes in order of value was included in each packet. My sister, who is five years younger
than me, went to a school in Brooklyn that took the fundraising idea a step further. For three years straight, not only would she come home with a packet of order forms, but also a large box containing 5 different types of candy, fifty chocolate bars and twizzlers in all.

The reason why this concerns me so is not because this would encourage children to sell products door to door( the people who organize these fundraisers do not approve of door to door selling) but, the fact that prizes are being used to bribe children into selling chocolates, and a lot of the time, the candy never even leaves the house. My main concern is the health risks involved with this. Many of the children who bring home these boxes of candy wind up getting their parents to buy the entire box so they could give the money to the school. Then, they eat the candy themselves. I am sure you have heard of the recent policy in Santa Clara, California banning restaurants from using toys as an incentive to get kids to eat more of their meals. Passed in April of last year, this ban is meant to counter the rise of obesity in California. I am also aware of your role in fighting obesity in NYC. Your suggestion to tax soda and making it so that people can not use food stamps to buy it convinces me that you would not be against a proposal that would help promote healthier eating.. School fundraisers that manipulate kids into selling candy sends them a negative message; it will make them associate food with reward, and unhealthy food at that. I have read Eric Schlosser's acclaimed(and controversial) book Fast Food Nation , and he describes how the fast food industry attracts kids with toys(47), much in the same way these fundraisers operate.
Both the fast food industry and these school fundraisers are ideal for companies to promote their products- the more kids eager to acquire their products, the better for them.

Mister Bloomberg, I hope you will take my words seriously and do something about the way fundraising companies manipulate the children of New York. I think that changing their methods is a vital step towards a healthier city.

Sincerely,
Sojourner Hughes

Cited Work:
Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001
McKinley, Jessie, “Citing Obesity of Children, County Bans Fast-Food Toys”, NY Times, April 27 2010 ( http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/business/28mcdonalds.html )
(Will be edited and reposted)

Edgar's Open Letter

99-16 67road
Forest Hills, N.Y. 11375

24 May 2011

Safety Director Barry White
200 Constitution Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20210


Dear Safety Director White

Hello and good day. My name is Edgar Pal and I live in Forest Hills New York. I attend school at Laguardia Community College and am taking an English 101 course in which we are reading Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. I am writing this letter because this book has opened my eyes to the dangerous working conditions in our countries meat packing industries that are faced by workers everyday. This all ranges from the daily slaughterhouse employees to the over night cleaning crews that clean up the daily messes. Their are way too many workers getting seriously injured and killed while working in our countries top three largest Meatpacking Companies (ConAgra, IBP, and Excel) and not enough is being done to prevent these things from happening. I understand that the purpose of your company OSHA is to prevent work-related injuries, illnesses, and occupational fatality by issuing and enforcing standards for workplace safety and health. However you guys are doing a very poor job and many uneducated immigrant workers are paying the full price through pinching nerves, losing fingers, and limbs, as well as many losing their lives.

Barry, let me first begin with saying that these workers have very demanding and difficult jobs. Jobs that you would never want to have. Today, the rate of injury in the meat packing industry is three times that of private industry overall, and meat packing was noted by Human Rights Watch as being "the most dangerous factory job in America”. They work long hours that sometimes are inhuman. Their work is all physical and there pay is very low. Supervisors constantly force these workers to work as fast as possible like an assembly line while wielding and swinging knifes at meat and carcasses in crammed conditions in order to reach company earnings, profits, and goals. Most of these employees are immigrants, however they are human beings like you and my self. Now do you think that just because they are immigrants, it is all right to treat them in this manner?

Adding to all of this, Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows (from 2003-2007) the rate of illnesses and injuries for workers in "animal slaughtering and processing" was over twice as high as the national average, and the rate of illnesses alone was over ten times the national average. This shows that your company is not doing its job correctly and as good as it can when it comes to the safety of working conditions faced by slaughterhouse employees. What is the point of the presence of a company such as OSHA if the rate of illnesses and injuries in these slaughterhouses are constantly on the rise. Conditions should actually be getting better, and so many of these workers should not be getting injured. To top this all off, “a cleaning crew member by the name Henry Wolfe had been overcome by hydrogen sulfide fumes while cleaning the very same tank that had caused the death of three men, eight years earlier. Another worker, Gary Sanders had tried to rescue him resulting in the death of both men. Then OSHA later fined National Beef for its negligence that was $480 for each mans death”. Now these two men have names that sound to be American which means that they were legal workers in this country. Do you think that a human beings life is worth such a low sum? That not only is it not fair to the death of that individual, but embarrassing and selfish that you guys would put such a low cost on the life of a human being especially when your suppose to be looking out for us.

I believe that the solution for the safety and the well being of these meatpacking factory workers is very possible, however will take some time. I believe that the change starts with the company you work for, and you because these meatpacking slaughterhouse don’t care much about there workers and your the only ones that can help them. There are no strict rules that they have to go by as well as no one that they have to fear. You as well as the rest of the OSHA company need to reinforce better safety rules and regulations at these plants as well as remember that every human has to look out for one another. This is because I promise you, that if it were you who had no choice but to work in theses slaughterhouses under these dangerous and life threatening conditions, you would also want someone to do something about it.

Sincerely,
Edgar Pal

Work Cited


http://www.osha.gov/html/Feed_Back.html. May 28, 2011


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_packing_industry. May 28, 2011


http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/processing. May 28, 2011


Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation the dark side of the all-american meal. New York, N.Y. 10022: First Harper Perennial edition, 2005.

The Fast Food Dilema

Aleksandar Markovic
English 101
Essay 3 First Draft:

Aleksandar Markovic
70-19 65th PL, 3L, Glendale
Queens , NY , 11385

5/20/2011

McDonald’s Corporation
2111 McDonald's
Dr Oak Brook ,IL, 60523



Dear Jim Skinner, I am writing to you and all of the executive's of the McDonalds
corporation in a desperate plea to help fix all the wrongs with the way McDonalds
conducts all there meat purchasing through dirty and dilapidated slaughterhouses.
McDonalds is supporting dirty slaughterhouses who mistreat not only the poor animals
who they slaughter inhumanely but the individuals who work there. Not only are a great
amount of those workers immigrants with no papers and no way to complain to proper
authority without risking deportation but more importantly they are human beings with
rights. Just as they have rights the animals that are being slaughtered inhumanely have
rights as well. Not as many rights as we have granted but they should at least have the
right to live there short life in better conditions.


For example in the movie Food Inc written by Kim Roberts , Elise Pearlstein and Robert
Kenner and directed by Robert Kenner "The chickens that are engineered to have bigger
breasts because of our appeal for breast meat are so much heavier that they can’t even
support their weight beneath their feet. What we end up seeing is chickens that can
stand for a moment and then plop back down". It’s sad to see that these chickens are living
there short and miserable lives not only in a dark and stuffy chicken house but they cant
even walk around and end up spending their short miserable lives sitting in their own
feces. Now that’s only the chickens what about the pigs and the cows? While I was
researching this I came across an interesting article of pig slaughterhouses. "Did you know
that 76% of local slaughterhouses kill pigs inhumanely?" In the article three quarters of the
slaughterhouses were killing pigs in a merciless fashion. Rather than stunning the pig
with electroshock so they would feel no pain a simple procedure these slaughterhouses
are suspending the pig in mid air by hanging them upside down by one of their legs and
then beaten unconscious with a stick before being slaughtered. "Several of the woman
lawmakers were even brought to tears after watching the cruel treatment of animals in the
slaughterhouses". The same could be said for all those poor cows that are killed
improperly. Just try to compare the situation to that of the blood diamond if it makes
it easier for the top tier executives from the McDonalds corporation. Does
McDonalds really want to be supporting such cruel practices?


This brings me to the next issue at hand diseases. We all know about E.coli. In Food Inc
Michael Pollan begins to explain about how we feed our cows corn instead of grass
because its cheaper. That struck a chord with me because he stated "If we fed our
cows grass instead of corn they could remove 80% of that E.coli virus from there
stomachs." I understand it’s a lot cheaper to feed cows corn but McDonalds is the largest
Fast Food chain in the world. I mean if anyone can start their own clean and humane
slaughterhouses its McDonalds. In terms of profit it wouldn’t pay itself off for at least a
decade or so but think of all the good the McDonalds corporation could do. Not only that
but the fact that you can police your own slaughterhouses and make sure everything is up
to McDonalds standards is beyond doing good in the public’s eye. I took an article from
Business world that provides us with the information that "more than 80% of our
slaughterhouses are dirty". "83% to be exact do not comply with government sanitary
standards." "The problems range from unsafe working conditions to , inhumane killing of
pigs and cattle to unsanitary working conditions and lack of cleanliness on the bloody
killing floor." It’s just a shock to me with such a high rate of problems in slaughterhouses
how they manage to stay up. Mind you if McDonalds is purchasing from these dirty
slaughterhouses not only can it effect the McDonalds corporation in case of someone
getting sick but McDonalds is supporting these cruel slaughterhouses by purchasing meat
from them just as people were supporting the blood diamonds in Africa by purchasing
them. Not only that but McDonalds is supporting the cruel treatment of these workers that
get injured every day in these assembly line food factories. These poor workers get
injured and killed every day while trying to keep up with the pace of the production line.
"The old meatpacking plants in Chicago slaughtered about 50 cattle an hour. Twenty
years ago , new plants in the High Plains slaughtered about 175 cattle an hour. Today
some plants slaughter up to 400 cattle an hour"(173). As you can see these plants try to
work at their own pace and have the workers follow which is extremely dangerous. These
poor workers try to keep up with the production line and often proves to be disastrous for
the worker. Ranging from serious injury to death it’s pretty common to find that in a
slaughterhouse. Most of these injuries also go unreported because the supervisors and
nurses get bonuses for the less amount of injuries reported. It’s just a sad and vicious cycle
for worker and animal alike.



I urge you Jim Skinner and any executives who may have also read my letter to consider
opening up a chain of McDonalds slaughterhouses with emphasis on having the cleanest
and safest working conditions for the worker. Also of course take care of the animals with
great care and respect in terms of living conditions starting from birth all the way down to
their killing which should be done in the most humane way possible. Thank you for
taking the time to read my letter.



Sincerly , Aleksandar Markovic

Aleksandar Markovic
English 101
Essay 3 Citations:
Food , Inc . Director Robert Kenner , Writers Robert Kenner , Elise Pearlstein and Kim Roberts .
Schlosser Eric "Fast Food Nation" , 2005 , Pg 173
"Most Slaughterhouses Are Dirty." Business World. 28 August. 1998.LexisNexis.Web.20 May 2011


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first darft open letter

35- 46 74st Jackson Heights
Queens, NY 11372

24 May 2010

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President Obama;


I am writing you because of an issue that has been bothering me ever since I was in high school. Ever since I was in the ninth grade I have become terrified of eating school lunch. Everyday at school during lunchtime I would line up in front of the cafeteria of my school lunch ready to eat this food I use to call “trustworthy”. I did not think there could ever be anything wrong with this food, I mean how could they be anything possibly wrong if it is prepared by people who are certified by the health department to prepare meals for public schools. But I was mistaken when one day I was sitting in the cafeteria ready to eat a pizza along with French fries and a chocolate milk, when I noticed the pizza wasn’t really cooked well it didn’t even have any sauce in it, besides chess and crust. I think that if I had eaten this pizza it would have gotten me sick. And as I opened the milk and began to drink it, it began to taste like it was already experienced. When I went to reach for my French fries they were very hard and cold. After a couple of days of going back to the cafeteria I began to noticed that the same meals were being served over and over again; cold pizza, fries, Chile, and mozzarellas sticks.


School lunches have a lot of fat and cholesterol. According to a nutritionists Kathy strong “ most schools lunch are packed with hot dogs, pepperoni pizza, and beef burritos”. Each of these food products are extremely high on cholesterol and I think is very unfair to be given a child these types of food. By schools serving kids these foods are basically lie they are contributing to the obesity rates and diabetes rates among young children’s. I need your help to try to put a stop to schools serving meals that are not well cooked and foods that may cause children to develop horrible disease later on in life. These foods are getting our children to come home feeling sick with a stomachache or a several headache.


The National School lunch program was created in 1946 according to Beth this program was created to “safeguard the health and well being of American children”. However in the couple of years since its inception this program has began to do less and less to provide healthy meals for kids. Today schools get $1 per every child in order to buy ingredients. But One dollar is not simply enough for cafeteria managers to provide healthy fresh foods for kids if the congress keeps deducting schools budget.


On Dec 13, 2010 you introduced a bill The Healthy- Free Kids Act that would “reauthorize the child nutrition Act”. I see this bill would bring positive results since its policy help schools send messages about healthy eating throughout the school by providing healthier vending machines, and snacks. I thank you for being concerned for your citizens. I have no doubt that you wouldn’t let kids health be in danger.


I would like for you to take a liitle bit closer look to the frozen foods that are giving to kids everyday for high cholesterol, make sure that these lunchrooms are cooking its foods right and not leaving it raw. Today every frozen food products contains “natural flavors or “artificial flavors”. According to Eric Schlosser in “Fast Food Nation”, natural flavor are flavors distills from a natural source while artificial flavor is completely chemicals. “The ingredient helps too explain not only why these foods taste so good but why most fast foods taste the way they do”(120). “But freezing and canning and dehydrating techniques used to process food destroy most of its flavors”(120). This could be dangerous to a child’s health these kids are just eating a bunch of chemicals which are extremely unhealthy for them. Thank you for taking the time to read my letter, it really means a lot to me.

Sincerely,
Mabel Arias