Food Is Cheap, At Least Compared With 4 Years Ago By Dan Charles

It has become common today to dismiss the idea of personal responsibility, however, Radley Balko,  author of “What You Eat Is Your Business,” has not. The article, published on Monday 23, 2004,on the website Cato Institute, reminds us of the importance and significance of personal responsibility in dealing with obesity.  Additionally, he argues that  government’s  attempt to  restrict American diets and without consumers being  held accountable for their unhealthy lifestyles is useless .

In Nicolette Hahn Niman's article, "America's Good Food Fight" the author illustrates the benefits of supporting local farming and the problems with argibusinesses to advocate a change in public policies. Niman describes her personal experiences with her family opinions on the food comidities at a family dinner, while going into even further detail about government policies and background knowledge. Niman advocates changes in public polies in order to give the public a larger idea about what the government is doing to our produce.

The land culture of the Ents in The Lord of the Rings differ greatly from the orcs, thus, providing readers a view of Tolkien’s perspective of agrarianism and current culture. These relationships to land correlate to modern views of the land. In the book The Good Food Revolution, the author, Will Alan, has similar views of land.

In the article, “Another Year of the Chicken: U.S. Beef Supply Will Fall Again in 2015” (2014) the author, Vanessa Wong, analyzes how the the price of beef and been increasing resulting in more of a demand in chicken. Wong goes on to state that the increase in beef resulted from an extreme drought in 2012 “caused feed prices to spike and, in response, farmers thinned their herds” (Wong, 2012). More of a demand in chicken has also been noticed in restaurants. The price of chicken increased five percent as opposed to the nine percent increase in beef at Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants. However, by the year 2016 Tyson Foods has projected that the cattle supplies will be down to has little as one percent. In truth, the price of beef will decrease.

American society has grown so accustomed to receiving their food right away and in large quantities. Only in the past few decades has factory farming come into existence that has made consuming food a non guilt-free action. What originally was a hamburger with slaughtered cow meat is now slaughtered cow meat that’s filled with harmful chemicals. Not only that, the corn that that cow was fed with is also filled with chemicals to make them grow at a faster rate to get that hamburger on a dinner plate as quickly as possible. Bryan Walsh, a staff writer for Time Magazine specializing in environmental issues discusses in his article “America’s Food Crisis” how our food is not only bad for us but dangerous as well. The word dangerous

price will rise on your favorite fast food restaurants like McDonalds, Taco Bell, Subway, KFC and

Many Americans today may not realize how much money is spent on food to support a family. In the book Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser he talks about how fast food affects American Society. He talks about how much money is spent on fast food, which is $110 billion dollars. Eric Schlosser says that many Americans spend more money on fast food then they do on cars and education. He mentions many food companies such as McDonalds, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and how it can be “the world’s largest provider of death care services”.(Schlosser 5) In Fast Food Nation, “Working class families could finally afford to feed their kids restaurant food.”(Schlosser 20) What Eric Schlosser is saying is that many people who are rich can afford to buy a lot of food.

What is the price of cheap meat? Is the mistreatment of animals, immigrants, manipulation of local politics, and monopolizing industry really something that people want to support just so they can purchase meat cheaper and in larger quantities? Ted Genoways book The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food dives into the meat packing industry, specifically Hormel and the Quality Pork Processors Inc. He investigates how the factory is run, how the employees are exploited and mistreated, the abuse of the hogs that are used for the meat, and the overall disgust that stems from the industry. Big business has always had a reputation for being shady and always looking for new ways to manipulate rules and regulations in order for them to maximize

Food and eating as we know are important for our body maintenance and growth process, but can we eat anything we like and trust it? As long as you live in the Western side of this world, you cannot always trust what you digest. As Michael Pollan mentioned, most of the Western food is processed food, which you cannot trust. Pollan is focusing on getting rid of Western diet in the United States and guiding Americans to start eating healthier, and having better eating habits. I agree with his idea because the Western diet is threatening our health and it might become uncontrollable in the coming years. Replacing processed food, and changing bad eating habits can save Americans from many dangerous health problems they are suffering from.

The essay “trash food” by Chris Offutt is a very interesting essay. Chris talks about how he himself faces daily discrimination because of his background and how the term ‘trash food’ is very insulting to him. I think that in our modern society this is a very big issue. In this day and age we don’t have any trepidations about throwing around words like trash, in fact these types of cruel, demeaning words are part of our regular vocabulary. Walking down a high school hallway, I can recall hearing the word ‘trash’ thrown about with no care.

In “Food Security and Climate Change: The True Cost of Carbon” by Paul Epstein, he states about climate change’s effect on food, “Climate change-warming and altered weather patterns-is contributing to production short-falls and rising grain prices.(Increasing demands for meat and dairy products, higher fuel prices, and displacement of food crops by biofuel-bound crops are compounding factors.)” (149). This shows that climate change is affecting food sustainability, now it is harder to afford things to eat. We humans eat lots of grains but now due to rising grain prices it is harder. The increased demand on meat and dairy products are causing for them to be produced out of fake foods. Meat might be made by other things and just be given the flavor and color of the meat to make it look real. As you can see as time passes all our foods are going to be artificial because of the lack of crops and to expensive food at the supermarkets.

Grocery stores tend to make their own market brand products because of high priced retail products. These "market-brand " products are sold at a cheaper price, which helps the wallet wary shoppers. The wholesale price index (WPI) has been negatively impacted by inflation. Wholesale price index measures and tracks the changes in prices that retailers pay for finished goods. Inflation only becomes negative when it goes beyond 5.5%. Inflation should be reduced to aid more shoppers in the U.S.

At this rate, food prices for a few key ingredients have increased significantly over the year 2015 and are likely to go higher in 2016. Having said that, bad weather, and the mandatory animal welfare criteria that goes with their Food with Integrity focus also contribute to the change in price and availability of ingredients. All of this could eventually affect the menu offers, and may adversely affect

Service of 31 percent food loss at the retail and consumer levels, corresponded to approximately

There’s nothing you or I can do to change it. So we might as well “hedge” our rising food costs by investing in the very commodities whose prices