Final Food Essay.

When we go to the supermarket, there’s a section for every kind of food. The Frozen section, the canned foods section and the section for fruits, vegetables and meats. When we look at the fruits and vegetables section in the supermarket the image of them being grown on a farm , sitting in the sun being taken cared of by farmers usually comes in mind because, that’s what industry commercials on T.V display to us. When in reality there being modified and sprayed with pesticides. Nor are they being hand grown by farmers, but are industrialized for production. Same goes for the meat industry. The abuse of animals has increased dramatically. The reason for why food industries must abuse there animals to get from them what they want is very unclear to me. There are more humane ways to kill an animal and its not to slit its throat and electrocute it. The living conditions as well for these animals is kept private because they don’t want us to know what they do to the animals before its sent to the nearest McDonalds or Wendy’s. The cows at a lot of these industrial places are kept in small confined areas with many other cows and its impossible for them to move and it adds stress onto the cow. The feed they also give the cows is meant to fatten the cows very quickly which isn’t healthy for the cows and it affects the quality of the meat. For the unfortunate chickens that get to be killed for McDonalds menu’s, the chickens are kept in unhealthy living conditions are beaten, electrocuted and have there throats slit before being into chicken nuggets or chicken sandwiches. By doing this to the chickens, they become extremely stressed making the chicken unhealthy, and making the chicken itself unhealthy. We may think that there may be one or two things on the menu that could possible be healthy but no. even the salads from McDonalds contain sugar and from the McDonalds Website it states “None of our products is certified as vegetarian” They also claim that 50% of there chicken nuggets are actually meat. I think that’s a bunch of shit because chicken is only one ingredient & there about 500 other ingredients so I don’t see how that takes up half. http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/nutritionexchange/itemDetailInfo.do
There’s probably a percentage of Americans that do know this already but what percentage of Americans actually change there eating habits because of it.

America is big on the food industry because it’s a system that can make a lot more artificial food and it will cost us less but this system is affecting Americans health. In the present 1 in every 3 children is overweight or obese. The people who work at these slaughter houses are usually immigrants who will do a lot for very little pay. A lot of what they make these workers do is very dangerous, working with high powered and very sharp objects. A lot of these workers become severely injured and cannot work but have to because they cannot afford to take days off from there jobs. We rely on food to keep us alive and healthy. Food industries make it hard for us to make healthy decisions on food because fast food like McDonalds and Wendy’s is so accessible to us. Its much cheaper then going to the store and buying fruit that is expensive in some places. Its also comes faster then having to come home and cook all day. Because of all the artificial flavors and chemicals they put in fast food it taste good and makes us want to come back for more. The government sees the increase of health problems within the United States like heart Diseases, high blood pressure and diabetes within adults and children. It seams impossible to buy healthy food because its to expensive and the un healthy food is very cheap. Growing our own looks to be the only other option because there seams to be no other alternative for the industrial food system. I think we don’t speak up about the problem is because its not directly in front of our faces, we don’t see the damage it does and it makes it harder for us to do anything about it. I think the Future for American isn’t going to be good, the percentage of BMI (body mass index) for the average healthy person has increased dramatically meaning people are coming more overweight and obese. Its becoming harder for people to exercise and eat right, people are dying at younger ages and we seams to be ignoring the reason why.