By: Emma Hersh & Marina Stuart

Staff Writers

The Rocket Press 

This week's "Man on the Street" question was: What's your favorite food to eat in and around school? 

 Maxime Damis, 10th Grade

"That Stand; bacon, egg & cheese."

Dario Rainone, 12th Grade

"I usually eat lunch during class otherwise I'd  probably get it across the street."

Ms. Bowers, Librarian 

"TamPoPo; I the tuna bim bim bop."

 Ayanna Robinson, 10th Grade

 "Scoop De Ville, it has the best ice cream ever."

James Seward, 11th Grade

"The school store, I get noodles." 

Most know that the current economic state of america is low recorded as being headed towards another depression. This means anyone who is middle class may be hit pretty hard and anyone who is strugglinf is now struggling a lot more. Sadly this happens to be the case for most people in philadelphia.

In the beginning of every school year they ask parents to fill out a little slip that says how much they make and stuff of the sort. Its mainly to determine if there child can.

1. Pay full price for food
2. Pay for small discounted food
3. Pay for grossly discounted food
4. or Get free lunch

"Activists who have long pressed the District to enhance its feeding
programs are pushing changes in policy that they say will result in
students eating more free meals at school" (Dale Mezzacappa).

It would sort of work like breakfast at the public schools. Since breakfast ingredients are usually cheaper and breakfast is actual valued more than lunch by most it is free. This new policy will hopefully get lunch prices discounted.

There are still some issues though. We need healthier foods in school, but that would increase prices. So we are sort of at a stalemate. Should  we sacrifice the health of the kids to save money like we have been doing or overcharge the kids for a healthier lunch? I'm not the professional but I am someone who is affected and who cares and we all should care about the childrens health.

Have you ever been in school and gone to the cafeteria and see the most aweful looking food in there world? Yes, no, maybe so?

Well even if you answered no even though the food in your cafeteria make look, taste, and smell pretty good chances are the food itself will be bad for you.

Already this school year there are apparent cases of food born illness in some of our nation's schools.(Chris Hansen)

These kids get sick and spread it all of over the food by simply breathing around them. And they food contains so maybe food bourne illnesses from being exposed, not stored right, or even undercooking it. And the good can have illnesses like the following. 

Illnesses

• Campylobacter
• Salmonella
  
• E coli.
• etc

Also not only will the kids have the this common infections they will also feel horrible. Almost every one of these leads to diarrhea and we all no that diarrhea can be quite the painful illness. (Infections)

We really need to have better courses of action to keep food stored and cooked properly. As well as handled properly so we don't get these infections and more importantly so the kids don't get the infections

Blog #1: The work ended up being harder than i thought it would be.  To start off a lot of the topics i was trying to find  were not on websites like google news.  Also, I felt like my topic was not good enough at times and would switch topics. Finding topics that you truly find interesting can be really hard.  So far, half of the information i needed for my topic could be found in the book i was reading for English as well.  I hope that this topic is not just important to me, but also to other      People in the world who worry about what happens to people when they eat at fast food restaurants and work at them as well. 

Mr. Baird assigned us a difficult but interesting task. In a group of our own decision, we had to organize and create a festival for Per-Wadjet’s (village now known as Buto) 3000th Anniversary for its Summer Solstice. But to make this festival even more special, the king at the moment, King Tutankhamun (King Tut) is the royal guest. We are not only satisfying His Royal Highness, but also the villagers of Per-Wadjet, who will also be attending.

Me despertè a las sies.

Ducha

No desayunar

Correr para el autobùs

Colegio

Mi casa

cena

    About how much does America or any other country waste when it comes down to food? A whole lot, in an interview a guy name Tom Smith, an anthropologist who’s been studying food waste for the pass 10 years states that about 9 billion kilos of food is wasted each year. And this waste comes from convenience stores are running about 26%, fast food restaurants about 10%, regular restaurants, full service sit down restaurants about 4%. Supermarkets are very efficient - less than 1% loss rates. When you look at their garbage it looks really high but that's because they handle a lot of food.
    It also states that households lose about 450 billion pounds, the retail food industry about 54 billion pounds and we haven't fully calculated the exact weight of all the farm losses at this point but it's runs somewhere around $25 to $30 billion. If we calculated all the waste that we make we could possibly feed other countries with it.   
    But the question is why is so much food being wasted? It is stated, “The core reason, and it's all the way through from the farms to the retail industry to the household, is that Americans have lost touch with food. We have been away from the farm for so long that it's not something that we consciously think about, it's just there.” Said by Tom Smith. This is true when you go back in to time when everyone was farming or getting their supplies from farms. However if we go back to farming are our people who are starving now still be starving or will they eat? The food we waste here has to stop, but how does it. We waste a huge amount of food here and don’t even know it. The problem is we have too much food. Since we have too much why not give it away!