This Essay is about how the food industry is killing America. The multinational corporation’s emphasis is food and making large production of food at a low direct inputs resulting in enormous profits. Health and safety are often overlooked by the companies and the government in an effort to provide cheap food. The issue is that the Companies are making the family owned farms go out of business, selling unhealthy food to the people of the US, and not telling the media what’s really going on.
In the past the food industry needed family owned farms to help produce and ship livestock to be processed into edible foods and shipped to local markets. With the use of science and mass production many of these family farms had to sell their livestock to local butchers or farm markets to stay in business or receive money to feed the livestock. In the present family owned farms are having a hard time staying in business because it cost much more to keep up with the demands of feeding the livestock. The food industry is making farmers go out of business, but the food industry is producing unhealthy and unsafe food in America.
Once the multinational food corporation started to riley on mass production, they started to overlooking health and safety. A crisis sooner or later was about to break out. To stop a crisis before it happens, they focused on science and technology to come up with ways to side step this disaster. Since using science the food industry was just bandaging the matter not finding the root cause of the outbreaks of salmonella or e-coli in meat. To secure the outbreak of salmonella and e-coli they went back and bandage up the setback but not change the main reason the outbreak of salmonella and e-coli started.
The science and technology the food industry use makes the food unhealthy and hides the facts on what they employ to clean up and strip food from deadly agents like salmonella and e-coli. One of the processes the food corporations use is sending meat to an ammonia tank to be cleaned and then sent to work stations to be processed. After being processed, this meat is sent out to local markets in America. Foods in the market have to label what’s in the meat, but the food industry does not label what they use to clean the meat or chemicals before they add the ingredients.
The food industry are sending small family owned farms out of business because the price of food from food industry are to too low for the farmers to hit. At the Grocery store there is not enough laws put down to keep the food clean and safe to eat. Food industries are hiding the process they use to clean the meat. The government needs to intervene and regulate these food industries to stop overlooking health and safety. Watch the movie “Food, Inc.” and see the truth.
