the idustrial food system

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Industrial food system

Intro:

Americans are obsessed by convenience, saving time and buying cheap. The pursuit of these goals is apparent as we get our daily menus from drive-up windows, carryout meals and sealed products. The industrial food system is a structure where an amount of food is produced by highly developed technology and is packaged to many supermarkets. The system engages the fabrication of stocks and crops. Farmers are the caretakers of many of these stocks; which includes pigs, cows, and chickens.

Health and safety also are essential measures of a food system. Meals away from home contain more calories and fat and less fiber. One third of Americans are obese, up from one quarter a decade ago. Obesity is a major risk factor for heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer. With the production of many factories overproducing their stocks and crops disease spread. When the industrial size of farms raise too many animals producing manure on such little land, we must, question the industrial concentration of our food system. Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser, argues that fast and cheap food has helped transform our diet, landscape, economy, workforce and pop culture.

The majority of citizen doesn’t know where their meals came from or who made it. The richer you are the healthier you eat, since the rich likes to keep to them selves, most of the food production is fast food for the common people. The common people would be ranked as middle class who works a 9 to 5 job. This may seem not fair but this is the way our food system is functioning. The sizes mixed with value are defiantly out of proportion. An American dollar today can buy someone a burger, which holds 879 calories. According to the book Fast Food Nation, one in every four hamburgers contains cow shit. Most of the food made in these factories is distributed to fast food restaurants like Mc Donald’s, Wendy’s, and Burger king. These major corporations are doing major damage to our population growth matter. The obesity in our country is way more discreditable than any other countries in the world. When scientists from around the world tell us the vitamin and mineral content of our food has fallen significantly over the past 60 years, we need to question our reliance on the corporate food system.

The way our culture is distributing food is disgusting, to think that the high tech, high production, industrialized agriculture is the way to feed the world. It seems not, millions still starve, the U.S. is obese and we still have tainted food. What does that tell you about our food system? We as consumers have allowed this to happen. We have become complacent and dependent on this industrial food system. We must remember that the vast majority of contaminated food has come directly out of the industrial food system, not local markets.

Asking to change the way eat is very rigid, because the use of eating an over size proportion as a meal is something we have grown accustom to. Getting an over size meal for 5 dollars is something most people could afford than the good quality stuff.

Conclusion:

Since the United States is not collectively a whole, many citizens lack the qualities of deliberation of others. This shortage trait is often over looked by benefiting oneself and family. The way of living is not agreeable because as time pass the greed of an individual is just going to expand. Ignorance and less compassion is the resulting matter at the end of this problem. The awareness of this topic should be spreaded to many so something can be done to benefit our future of humanity.

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