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The In Imitation of Film, Nicholas Balaker states that many of kids around globe are sometimes affected or influence by the actors in the movies they see. Thirty-eight percent of children started smoking by watching their favorite movies.

In the findings of Dr. James explaining that the “R-rated movies contain twice as much smoking “as other films, I think that a child picking up the habit in smoking just because they are watching a movie or television is outrageous.

In reading reading describes, Dr. James D Sargent, the lead author on the study for pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical school, who interviewed 6,522 children nationwide about their movie watching, children who had the highest exposure to watching movies with smoking scenes, they are more than two and a half times likely to start smoking as those who had the least contact.

The reason for me saying that is the fact that, every individual is different and the makeup of everyone is. Now, if a child is watching a R-rated movie and see’s one of his or her favorite movie star smoking ,and that child decided to follow in their footsteps, and that child took the first pull and hated the fact that it don’t feel right, that child might not turn out a smoker.

However I think R-rated movies are influential to a child, who may have grown up in the environment seeing his or her parents smoking and watching a favorite actor or actress doing the puffing, as a result of that I think that child might turn out a smoker. Yet I do believe that it’s the upbringing of that child will tell the future, poor or rich.

In reading this piece in my life growing up, my mother and father smoked and I have tried doing it but grew it out of it, I will never put that in my mouth again.

Or what about the percentage of a child who started smoking who can’t watch movies or the child who has no television,

In conclusion the affect that the parents have on a child is great impact on his or her life not the television or a movie star .

Blog 9 Food safety

Food safety 

With the increases in industrial farming and corporate consolidation in the U.S food production system, mass production (quantity) has become of high importance. Because of this, the quality and standard of the food being produced suffers greatly which can lead to serious health concerns.

 Two areas, of the production process, where this quantity over quality approach has become most apparent are in the areas of Waste Management and Processing.

Concentrated farming creates situations where massive amounts of animal waste are produced in very small areas. Because of this, the waste produced is not disposed of properly. According to the USDA “ One dairy farm with 2,500 cows produces as much waste as a city with around 411,000 residents^. Unlike human waste, however, in most cases the law does not require that livestock waste be treated.” A more scale back approach to production would allow for waste to be disposed of in a more appropriate manner, but this is not the case with the current system.

Apart from this waste management issues, the processing part of this mass production approach has equally poor standards. Serious sanitation lapses occur that leads to “the presence of fecal matter from slaughtered animals, which can contaminate meat with high levels of bacteria such as E coli.”

As I have shown, serious issues can arise in the areas of waste management and processing due to the mass production of the food we eat. These problems will continue to exist with serious health consequences if this quantity over quality approach continues.