Role Of Government Agencies During The Food Manufacturing By The Small Scale Farmers

Farmers are using different technology for breeding. They used selective breeding to produce animals that exhibit desirable traits and they get more benefit from it. For example, using breeding techniques farmers makes cows which produce more milk with less lactose, and sheep which produce more wool. Farmers accept this new selective breeding technology because in the past, farmers would use growth hormones to promote such qualities. This became problematic when residue of the hormones remained in the meat, leaving it with a foul taste. When researchers began to clone transgenic animals, it became possible to develop certain traits in animals, which increased the quality of their yield. When a farmer would like to raise the standards of a herd, the breeding process is very slow and sometimes incomes can decrease (Wilmut 23). Many times when relying on sexual breeding alone to mass-produce these animals, there are chances of breeding out the desired traits (Freudenrich). Transgenic animal cloning will result in higher quality meats and dairies without the use of artificial hormones. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released in January 2008 concluded “edible products from normal, healthy clones or their progeny do not appear to pose increased food consumption risks relative to comparable products from conventional animals.” After 2008, US Food and Drug Administrative agree to use

In the history of America “Food was all you could eat” (Pollan, p. 2). The prime issue in the system of American food is what the food quantity we daily eat.

Food plays a vital role in our society today. Not only is food essential as a means for survival, but food can also be a source for curing diseases and benefiting one’s health.

Due to reading “Stuffed and Starved” by Raj Patel this semester, I learned about how foods are produced and impact the world. Ever since I visited the farmer’s market in October, I became more aware of whether or not I am consuming genetically modified crops. Raj Patel revealed some of the many truths about the Green Revolution regarding genetically modified crops that influenced my choice of eating. Prior to reading the section of the book that made me aware of what I am eating, I believed that genetically modified crops were more beneficial than harmful to everyone. Not only did the genetically modified crops produce a higher yield to feed people, but the negative impact of technology outweighed its benefit. For example, Patel states, “domestic

When dealing with food, Americans are forced to put their trust into the food industry. Although, there has been an increase of awareness, not enough, on how the industry grows food, processes, and what Americans consume. The United States is riddled with food industry immorality, obesity, and inadequate nutrition education. The government should have more control of the food industry, beyond the mandating of Nutrition Facts labels. In order to enhance the life quality of Americans, the government should partake in a more significant role with food industry regulation.

Food is one of the most important aspects of the human body. Over time it has been proven that food is the key to survival. Food for human beings has definitely made a drastic change throughout the centuries. With that the food industry has been talked about quite a bit. We consume so much processed food to the point where we adapt unhealthy diets which causes us to develop unhealthy habits. In order to combat this we humans have taken different approaches to including buying organic produce as an alternative to conventional, going vegan, as well as just plain watching what they eat

Genetically modified foods should be banned more than now because they are harmful for people’s health, farmers are damaged by mass production and can not help improvement of economy.

To be able to grasp the stakeholders arguments it is important to become familiar with these concepts: genetic engineered food, industrial farming, sustainable farming, and deregulated. The first concept is genetically engineered food, which is when scientist introduces new traits or characteristics to an organism from another’s DNA. There are multiple terms used to describe genetically engineering, some of the other terms that all mean the same thing are modified living organisms and genetically modified organisms. Foods created from genetically engineered plants were introduced into our food supply in the 1990s (FDA,

The nutrients in food are something that a human cannot live without, yet so many people are deprived of a nutritious diet. Healthy eating habits are hard for many to obtain with the economy being as bad as it is. Healthy food is pricey and many low income families cannot afford the correct groceries. A healthy diet is not only costly money wise but health wise as well. Quick unhealthy meals can cause very pricey health problems. Even with assistance, finding the funds to support a nutritional diet in the United States is very difficult. Obtaining and keeping a healthy diet in the United States seams merely impossible to most citizens, with no change looking bright in the future.

For more than a century, the U.S. government has been telling people what to eat. In the beginning of the book, the author gives a history of American diets and health over the last 100 years. This is important for readers to understand how dietary advice has affected what and how people eat. In 1900, the leading causes of death were infectious diseases, nutrient deficiency, and malnutrition, especially among the poor. Government nutritionists urged people to eat more of a variety of foods in order to prevent nutritional deficiencies and related diseases. Throughout the 1900’s, housing, sanitation, and nutrition improved due to an expanding economy, which resulted in a decline in diseases caused from nutritional deficiencies. Today, the leading causes of death are chronic diseases associated with excessive or unbalanced intake of food and nutrients (p 31). Despite the tremendous advances in medicine over the years, conditions directly

Around the 19th century, Wilber Atwaters, a USDA chemist, introduced to concept “science of nutrition” (Mudry, 395). Scientific evidence began to dictate what was considered good and healthy. The introduction of this concept led the USDA to quantify the daily American meal through the release of the “recommended daily allowances, serving sizes and portions per day” (Mudry, 395). In 1917, the USDA published its first food guide which encouraged people to view food in scientific and numeric terms (Mudry 338). As globalization gradually progressed, the USDA continued to use quantitative language in regards to food until the food pyramid became a central figure in the language of nutrition as well as a symbol for common sense as it is based off of a scientized approach to eating. A key component in nutrition science which pushes the USDA to published food guides is “how ordinary foods can be used in the kinds and proportions fitted to the actual needs of the body” (Mudry

In today’s political game of chess, whoever has the best strategy wins. In the last few years there has been a significant support for genetic modified crops, by the United States Government. Monsanto, which considers itself to be a friendly agriculture organization, is a company with several of its ex-employees working inside the government; maybe due to their significant influence on the government. A research about the food industry has revealed the way Monsanto has genetically modified much of the food supply, putting their consumers health in question, as well as the excessive power and control.

Genetically Modified Crops are a damaging thing not only to the health of it’s consumers but to the environment as well. When genes are altered and changed it goes against everything their natural state has to offer. The possibilities of this new engineered plant are endless and can essentially in one aspect lower the nutrition levels. When plants are taken out of their natural state and placed into a lab for genetic modification the levels once found in the natural plant can become lost and or not as strong. The companies who produce these genetically modified seeds are altering creation; the genes. When food is consumed, portions of that food are taken into the cells to replenish, repair, and make new cells. If those cells are surrounded by toxic substances such as the chemicals in the food, it becomes easier for the cells to take in that material as well.

From my current understanding, genetically modified food is artificially altered from experimentation. Doing so, helps farmers grow a greater yield and, therefore, helps such business. Another sensitive topic known related to this subject is the mistreatment to the animals that are involved in this process. Factory farming provides poor livestock conditions in order to have higher productivity.

Cloned sheep aside, genetic modification has been infiltrating its way into modern livestock farming slowly but surely. The livestock themselves, the animals whose products are marketed for human consumption, are not genetically modified directly. However the concern is that a large amount of their food is comprised of GM crops. Plants and grains produced for a high yield and fast growth have been proven to possess fewer nutrients than an animal would consume in the wild, and often this specially engineered produce is all that livestock are fed. A battery diet of vitamin-deficient, mass-produced crops can have some serious side effects. A lack of nutrients in a cow’s diet, for example, can lead to less energy and fat production, less digestive efficiency, and severe issues in reproduction such as weak, blind or even miscarried calves. The outbreak of a disease dubbed ‘the yellow death’ in Denmark shows rather convincing evidence of being influenced by the use of GMOs to feed pigs, as the animals