WHAT THE WORLD EATS

I am currently reading a book called What the World Eats by Faith D’Aluisio. It’s about a guy who travels around the world to see what other people in other places eat he follows 1 family around to see how much they spend and what they boy and what they eat.

                This week he’s following the browns around that live in Australia 3 adults and 4 kids. They spend $28.79 on grains or other starchy food,$ 24.55 on dairy, $117.99 on meat, fish and eggs,$ 20.54 on fruits, vegetables, and nuts, $35.44 on condiments,$ 4.59 on snacks and desserts, $4.28 prepared food, $28.28 on fast foods, $37.92 on beverages, and $64.07 on miscellaneous (cigarettes). The browns spent $376.45 in one week.

                The browns is a family of 5 that live in Riverview Australia, the 3 adults all have diabetes and are all over weight. Every two weeks the family goes food shopping. Since its supper hot in Australia they mostly just sit around under the AC and watch TV with KFC, McDonalds (in Australia they call it Mackas), and sizzlers.  The browns family says that fast food isn’t a treat to them so they don’t get all excited when they go to get it.

LIVE FROM MARS

I read an article called “Live from Mars” by Jeffery Kluger. This article is about when NASA a $2.5 billion SUV-size sent rover to mars so that it can study mars. They spent plenty of years trying to master it not crash landing it, they had to master unmanned soft landing before Neil Armstrong was able to step foot on the moon in 1969. Mars curiosity rover has been a complete success, so far. Funding for mars missions is set to fall from $587 million in 2012 to $360.8 million in 2013 that has forced the U.S. to drop out of a partnership they had with the European Space Agency for two missions they had. “We can just barely afford those missions” says NASA’s john Grunsfeld.

I think it’s really cool how they have a rover on mars that tells NASA everything that happens up there & that learns about it. Instead of sending people up there all the time.

POLAR BEARS IN DANGER

I read an article called “Polar Bears in Danger” by Elizabeth Winchester. This article is giving awareness about polar bears that are in danger. The artic sea is melting away making it much harder on the polar bears to survive in the wild. The zoos are really trying hard to save them. In the artic there are few ice patches in the sea and not much land left but the polar bears need that artic water in order to survive. By 2050 20,000 polar bear will be gone by then. “If you save the polar bears, you are doing something dramatic to help the environment” says Jeffrey Bonner he’s the president of the St. Louis Zoo. There is a group of people that are dedicated to saving the bears and where they live. “The more people who see bears and understand their plight, (a dangerous situation) the better the chance we will [change our ways} in time to save them,” someone told TFK. Someone else that is very dedicated to helping the bears is Steven Amstrup he’s a scientist that helps the bears.  Zoo’s provide the cubs with safe homes to live in & experts work  to breed the bears and try to keep their population going & healthy.  

I think it’s a wonderful job  that people are working hard & trying to save the polar bears because their species are really almost gone…. The zoos are trying to make homes for them & fast enough to save them but it’s going to take a little while.