Real Food Vs. Fake Food

When it comes to seafood, I just can't get enough of shrimp. Shrimp is often used as an appetizer or party starter for gatherings, or can just be used as any ingredient to a good meal. I often use fake shrimp when I cook pasta for my family or friends because it's a unique topping with flavor. Real shrimp on the other hand just give foods the same spice, style and taste. Fake shrimp is the more cost effective choice, but that doesn't mean that real shrimp is not good because it is great.
Fake shrimp is cod and fish put together that is coated and flavored with real shrimp, then it is molded into looking like real shrimp. Fake shrimp often contains the same nutrients as regular shrimp, but is much more cost effective. The advantages to having fake shrimp over real shrimp besides the fact that you can get it cheap is that it often comes pre-cooked. This means that all you have to do is either boil it or bake it depending on your preference. In this economy buying real food is very expensive because of the lack of income or frugality that people are tying to maintain. Buying real food is just not plausible. Shrimp is a delicacy in someways because you don't really eat it everyday, but when you do want to you don't want to spend so much money which shows the advantage of fake shrimp. Though fake shrimp is combined with a lot of preservatives and fats it is not much more than that of regular shrimp.
Fake food to me is really not a problem due to the fact that I often just care about taste and price. If I can't rell the difference between real shrimp and fake then it's no problem to me. I want food that taste good at a good price and sure there might be some helth risk involved. Shrimp though in my opinion is not consumed on a daily basis where it would become a great problem to my health. With the money that I save I can put use towards other things that I enjoy in life.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-04-24-food-games_N.htm

I don't really agree with this article that states that fake food has become a leading problem in the obesity of young kids in America. I don't argue with the fact that it is part of the problem, but I feel there are more factors to it as there is with everything. Children these days lack the necessary exercise to maintain good health. With video games, movies, and other types of entertainment to keep children busy, they are often stuck at home. This takes away from precious time that they could be playing and exercising like in the old days when there weren't so many distractions before. z

Peer Response: Joy's Blog

Joy's blog discussed about how she prepared a meal for her family this past weekend. She talks about the convenience of having all the ingredients and how much her family enjoyed her well prepared meal. She talks about the enjoyment of food and not just about getting the necessary nutrients in food. Her family and herself actually enjoyed the food which goes along with how she talks about disagreeing with the claim that Pollan makes that people don't take pleasure in eating food anymore. I agree with Joy completely because it's not that Americans don't enjoy the food or try to savor it, but rather the people around them make food more compelling. If the envornment and people around you when you eat is cherry and upbeat then food always taste so much better because you are truly enjoying yourself.

Alcohol? 18 or 21?

I decided to compare two articles concerning the legal drinking age in the United States of America. Since under-age drinking is a big debate in America, I thought it be interesting to look at and understand both sides of the issue.

The first article I read comes from CNN and talks about how the legal drinking age of 21 is able to save many countless lives and is necessary for America to have. The article talks about the history of under-age drinking and the consequences that have arrived from it. Recently over 100 college presidents have started to question whether the legal drinking age should be 21 or not. The article takes examples from how New Zealand has reently lowered there drinking age and the result has been a wide-spread of vehicle accidents which furthers justifies the legal drinking age of 21.

The second article comes from CNN also and discusses how the drinking age of 21 just doesn't work at all. The article talks about how in the past legislation decided to change the legal drinking age to 21, but did so without even teaching the young how to prepare for alcohol consumption and its effects. The second article stresses the point of drinking in a controlled envornement and one where people have knowledge of alcohol to limit its effects and what not. It talks about how even in the college environment, students are still able to get there hands on alcohol.

After reading the articles my opinion on legalizing the drinking age to 18 still remains the same. I still think that having the legal drinking age at 21 just makes younger people more eager to dirnk and when they do they go all out. The more young people are prepared for drinking and alcohol the less they will want to do so, because eventually it'll just be an activity where they get tired of because they can do it so easily.