Forks Over Knives

This week's video was a long one which took us two periods to finish. But it was a good watch. It gave me a new perspective on how much and what kinds of food I should be eating to stay healthy. I found the statistics they showed us to be quite fascinating in that they could prevent and reverse diseases with a whole-food plant-based diet that medicines simple couldn't. But as our professor pointed out "There is no money in dead or healthy people" so company's want people to stay sick for the rest of their lives so that they keep on buying that company's medicine for the rest of that sick person's life. A student pointed out the fact that there was no need to go and completely change your diet to a whole-food plant-based one as the doctors test on rats revealed that a 5% intake of total food as being protein was fine whereas 20% was not. So we can still enjoy meat albeit at a smaller quantity if we want to increase our chances of not having lots of body problems when we get older. But I get where the Forks Over Knives people are coming from as if they said that meat was okay to eat in a person's diet some people might just ignore all of the other evidence they said about eating a lot of meat as being detrimental to your health. I also liked the lady at the end's quote in which she stated that we should "Eat to live. Don't live to eat" which I took to mean that we should eat healthier foods so that we live longer rather than stuff like fast food which tastes good to a lot of people but is harmful to their bodies. The fact that a MMA fighter was able to compete without eating meat was also surprising to me because one would typically expect fighters to eat a lot of meat as that gives you a lot of protein which is something that a ton of people say those who work out a lot should be doing. But in this case it appears that that was not necessary as he is able to stay in great shape without consuming any meat and fight with other people at that level.

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Honey, We Bought the Company

Today's video was Livelyhood's "Honey, We Bought the Company" which is about people buying or starting up their own companies. One of the businesses that we looked at was a Taxi company that was started by a group of employees that felt they were not being paid enough by their employer. In their company everybody has a say in the decisions they make which I thought was really cool. I thought it was cool because it showed us how not all companies are formed in your typical hierarchy where there is one person at the tops who is calling all of the shots. They also showed everybody else that their goal was achievable even though some people called them crazy for trying something like that which might have put them into a ton of debt. And now their company is making around $5 million a year which is pretty good amount.

There was also a solar panel business that helped get electricity to those who wanted to have a solar panel to save on their electric bill. They also helped out those without access to electricity which is a huge deal as now those people can use light bulbs to see at night instead of lanterns. And this business is successful because they do not charge people that much per month to make sure that they can make the monthly payments.

And another business that was shown in this episode was about steel workers who allowed a new owner to buy their business for $1 as they promised to split the profit 50-50 with the workers. But as you have probably guessed the owner eventually started to hide profits from the workers so that they could make more money. However, one person from the accounting department decided that they should stand up to their boss and tell the other workers how much they were being ripped off. This led that worker to being laid off and the complete ignorance of the deal that the workers had going on with the boss. But after six long years of not receiving the profit 50-50 the boss was finally able to settle a court case with the employees for $97 million.

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