Potato Industry Comparison Paper

All of the options on the menu may seem appetizing to customers, but the secret behind the fast food makes customers rethink their decisions. French fries may seem to solely be hand cut slices of potatoes fried in vegetable oil in a deep fryer, but that is not all that goes into McDonalds French fries. The company adds “artificial flavors” to the oil, but is not specific on what the flavoring itself is. Schlosser and Wilson discover that McDonalds adds beef juice flavoring from the hamburgers to the batch of fries to add a distinguishing factor to their fries, despite advertising them as “vegetarian friendly”. They also use cruel methods to make their infamous chicken nuggets. McDonalds pays butchering farms to kill their chickens with inhumane tactics. Chickens are hung by their feet in chains and then dunk them into a water-filled charged with electricity. Some chickens are not knocked unconscious from this cruel tactic due to moving too much and feel the pain from the next slaughter step, rotating blades. Every chicken is hung upside down, shocked, sliced into pieces, and then boiled in bloody liquid just so that customers can have chicken nuggets that are not even all chicken. They are made with the random pieces of cut up chicken, a sticky glue-like paste, and more “artificial flavors” of beef flavoring. This addition of beef flavoring to the

Malcolm Gladwell uses some very shocking facts about French fries and how unhealthy they are for the body. He states the average American eats about thirty pounds of French fries a year. In 1990, health concerns arose about using animal-based cooking oil to deep fry them. This

The conquistadors eventually used potatoes as rations on their ships and took it back to Spain (Chapman, n.d.). From there, the potato spread to other countries. Unfortunately, the potato was “regarded with suspicion, distaste and fear.” (Chapman, n.d.) Only animals were fed the potatoes at first but as time went on, the aristocracy of Europe began to encourage the lower classes to begin cultivating potatoes. Potatoes, however, did not become a staple until roughly 1795 and the food shortages that came during the time of the Revolutionary Wars in England. (Chapman, n.d.)

these crops and others back to their countries where people began to grow them. Potatoes, for example,

Potatoes were prime to the Americas and even Europe (when they were shipped back) as they were resistant to cold and could grow in very thin soil. In Europe, it supported the sailors, and even the lower class, only adding to its value. It had also saved Ireland from extinction as it was their only choice to avoid starvation (and began a huge Irish stereotype, among

We all know that hamburger does not go well if it does not have fries. This company provides a lot of fries to McDonald’s restaurant.

* Products that are commonly exported from the United States are things such as medicines, aircrafts, and cars. These are products are also important to humanity of different countries.

Potatoes became a staple in the diet of many as they were discovered around the world. They are still an important part of the diet of many today. ("International year of," 2008)

Introduced to Europe in the mid 1500s, potatoes were able to strongly impact European lives. They originally grew in Peru but spread throughout South America and later in Europe. Potatoes were able to thrive in Ireland, Scandinavia, Germany, and Poland. Potatoes were able to feed many people and improve food supply. The potato was able to supply a steady amount of calories and nutrients which was able to provide a better life for people of the Old World. Potatoes quickly spread throughout Europe and became an important crop. Today people still use the potato for food and other uses such as making stamps and soothing headaches. When growing potatoes today, many diseases can occur. Some include early and late blight, potato scab, and bacterial ring rot.

Potatoes began prospering with the Incan people in the Andes in the form of polyculture. The environment surrounding the Andes was harsh and unforgiving and where one type of potato would thrive, another would perish. The Incan people then changed their needs in order to satisfy the potato and began growing different types of each in different areas of the mountains. This method was extremely successful and resulted in massive genetic diversity for the potato. On the other hand, once potatoes were transported to Ireland, they underwent a change subject to human desires where only one type of potato was grown excessively, otherwise known as monoculture. The Irish had discovered that a single type of potato prospered in their soil and provided substantial nutritional support for the masses, resulting in the cultivation of a single genetic strand. The consequences of this endeavor would come later with the blight, but in this case, the potato had succumbed to the needs of humans. Lastly and more presently in the United States, potatoes have altogether lost their say in evolution by being grown only based on their requirement to feed the many. Certain strains of potatoes have become prevalent due to their need for food purposes, such as “perfect” French fries provided for restaurant chains. Besides

Figure 4 in Appendix A demonstrates the supply and demand of white potatoes. In the short run price, demand and supply with all increase because of the commodity being added to the program. While in the long run both supply and demand will increase. Price will decrease because consumers will keep demand high enough to have equilibrium at a lower price than in the short run. By adding the proposed changes white potato farmers will be better off.

Known as the fast-food icon around the world, McDonald’s French fries have taken the world by storm. In Eric Schlosser’s essay, “Why McDonald’s Fries Taste So Good”, he uses the popularity of McDonald’s French Fries to begin his essay and to effectively capture his audiences’ attention to make them realize that there is a problem with our favorite fast-food meals. What is really put into the foods we eat and why it smells and tastes so good, specifically McDonald’s French fries, is effectively answered in Schlosser’s essay. The reality of what is really going on behind the scenes of fast-food restaurants is revealed through Schlosser’s facts, intricate detail, and personal experiences to effectively come to the conclusion that processed foods are

The potato seems to us today to be such a staple food that it is hard to believe that it has only been accepted as edible by most of the Western world for the past 200 years. Our story begins thousands of years ago, in South America—Peru,

McDonald’s is growing from time to time by expanding the number of restaurant. The main source that McDonald’s used as for packing and ingredient is nature. Every-day they are using a huge amount of napkins, tray lines and others. Moreover, another major ingredient that McDonald’s used is oil and gas.

New farming methods came to use during late 16th century. Farmers in many parts of Europe, including Ireland, France, started to raise potatoes. A plant from the “New World”, that for a long tome was seen with a big suspiciousness. A higher rate of potato