industrialize food system

Industrialize Food System

Arlen N. Molina
Pluto D
Food Course

Industrialize food system, is believe to be a system made in mass production to make us follow certain way of living that other powerful people impose in us. It is also a way of how we eat, what we eat, and why we eat it.

This semester in our food course we learned how was the food we ate mass produce, by who was it mass produced and what was in it. I did not realize that the food we eat is anything but healthy nor safe in the long run, what I discover during this semester has impact the way I eat and in the general way I view food and the people that offer it to us. For some this concept may seem a bit ‘tree hugger’ because we are given all this information in how the meat we eat is not killed nor clean properly leaving the meat full of bacteria that could kill us, and be excepted to give up meat because of this information. But seriously you have lived for about an average of eighteen or nineteen years old been omnivorous and some one comes up to you and tells you that meat and the food your eating right now is bad for you, will you believe them? Realistically, I wouldn’t believe them right away, and even if they had a lot of evidence I will still be a bit wary of them.

Because of this reason in our food course we have embarked in a way to prove to others that the way we are eating and the stuff (because of its processing I don’t think its food) we are eating isn’t healthy for us. We have look in every aspect of industrialized food system, we have view it from its processing and cleaning, to its market price, to its nutrition and finally to its social view.
In the next paragraphs I will be trying to open your minds to a reality that has evade us, and just as the matrix some of us will believe it, some won’t.

The big fast food companies have since there existence try to manipulate us into spending large amounts of money from our pay to eat their processed and addictive food. And we have fallen for this trap; they have caught us because we are always searching for ways of getting our food and others things faster. We have become “a nation with a health disorder”.

They began by buying the little farms and grouping them together to create one massive one, they fired all the competent farmers because they did not agree with their rules, and in their place they hired immigrants that weren’t trained in the correct way to clean meat. Their only care since the beginning has been for the profit and not for the consumers.

This food that big companies process and give to us to eat are not only fill with bacteria, but our vegetables and fruits are also fill with pesticides that kill insects but also are harmful for us and the environment. So, the big companies give us process food that is harmful for us, so how do they keep us faithful to them and not organic farms? Well, that’s were the industrialize food system comes in play, it markets, it manipulates us to get their food only, it makes gives us variety like mangos from a South American country or chesses from a European country. Those foods are also process and full of bacteria and pesticides, but we American love to have the upper hand to the rest of the world, that’s why we buy mangos in winter that don’t grow in our country and that travels thousand of miles to get to our supermarket.

Another point in their industrialize food system, is fossil fuel. A very important part in this manipulation, it allows the mangos to travel thousands of miles for us; it gives power to our cities and allows us to move faster than before. It uses fuel to kill the environment.

One may think that because they are processing the food the only thing they are damaging is our health, but in actuality they are also damaging our environment with their massive industrialize factories that kill our land and our air with its waste. They also over use a non-reusable source in our planet, fossil fuel. And like everything else it will run out soon and their manipulative way will be over.