The Truth about the Food Industry

The Truth About Our Food Industry Are you really aware of how your food is produced and what it consists of? Food production and consumption has significantly changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000 years combined. James Brewer’s article, “Food, Inc.”, focuses on the main idea that food production in the United States does not depict what’s on the packaging, but rather consists of large manufacturing companies that operate factories with harsh conditions. The article also talks

the book Fast Food Nation (The Dark Side of the All-American Meal) over this summer. This book was written by Eric Schlosser who has received many journalistic honors for his books. This book was published in January of 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company in New York, NY. This was a medium sized book being that it was only 288 pages in length. I enjoyed this book and enjoyed learning the secrets of fast food establishments. Schlosser shows us in this story two different subjects; fast food post WWII and

I chose the film “Food Inc.”, it was a documentary film released on September 7, 2008 directed by Robert Kenner. I watched the film on Thursday, July 9, 2015, I watched it on my computer and I was watching it at home. The filmmaker, Robert Kenner showed us the truth about our nation’s food industry. And the industry doesn’t what us to know the truth about what we are eating because if we knew we won’t want to eat it. He brings us into farms and the slaughterhouse where they grow bigger breasted chickens

the food industries, the facts clearly show that they are the cause of the obesity epidemic. The film also focuses on children who have become overweight. According to Katie Couric, “many people think that kids are overweight for two reasons: a lack of exercise and increased appetites.” (Fed Up). Soechting’s film, it tackles the producers main claim and that is corrupt food making industries and reveals the truth behind the overweight and obesity epidemic of our nation’s children and the food industry

The food industry has changed drastically over the past decades. Livestock were formerly raised in the open range in the western United States. Today, livestock are mass produced in factory farms. This change raises a question for many Americans; “Should there be concern?” Americans should absolutely be concerned about the food they are consuming. Billions of unhealthy animals are slaughtered each year for human consumption. In contrast to the former farms that livestock roamed freely, todays factory

Agriculture Myths and Facts Melissa Clark Murray State University Over the years agricultural industries, especially the food industry, have developed negative reputations, all due to made up myths that people have chosen to believe in. Some of those myths include: farmers are trying to hide the way they run their businesses, the food system is controlled by select large corporations more worried about money than consumer satisfaction, and crops that are not affected by herbicides are bad because

Kids love fast food. And the fast-food industry loves kids: it couldn't survive without them. They are, after all, the industry's biggest consumers. In the national bestseller Chew on This, available in paperback April 2007, the award-winning journalists Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson share with young readers the fascinating and sometimes frightening truth about what lurks behind those sesame seed buns. Addressing the same issues as Schlosser's groundbreaking Fast Food Nation, the authors focus

simply choose to be oblivious about the truth or the basic idea that puts all non-vegetarians on a pedestal only to increase their ego, comfortably forcing everyone else to look away from the ugly truth about meat consumption, therefore reinforcing the senseless debate about humans being at the top of the food chain, as if people were savages and need meat to survive. If that’s the case, then why not eat raw meat? There’s no connection between human prevalent position in food chain that could justify

Food Industries     Throughout the years food industries have become the primary source of food production, consequently causing diseases. Food industries promote themselves as “improved” or “less fattening” to provoke the audience to buy their products. In reality the effect that the overconsumption of the junk food does is cause obesity, hormonal change, respiratory issues, and plenty other health issues. Worldwide, there are people that are not educated on food industries and the chemicals or

deteriorations. Human beings, through their peculiar habits and thoughtless actions have brought about dilemmas for themselves. It is the human actions which have put the environment and ecology in danger. But human beings have not taken any lesson from the environmental degradations as it seems because even today large corporations are contributing thoroughly to the deteriorating conditions of human life. Food, which is the primary mode of survival, is yet another aspect which has been made the target