Animal Food Essay

Every time I tell my mother “ I don’t want to eat this. It’s full of saturated animal fat” she goes “When I was your age, we ate what we had in our plates, so now eat it”. Not only technology has changed during the years, but also food. Nowadays people try to eat healthy by going organic, gluten free, vegan, etc. if you notice, the things that we eat now are not the same that our parents ate when they were young. How much food has changed during the years? Are we eating more healthy or unhealthy? Food is probably one of the most important things we need in order to survive.
Back in the day people used to have farms with animals to grow their own food to satisfice their needs. Now there are multimillionaire companies who grow animals in their backyard. Most of the time the animals live in unsanitary conditions. It’s cheaper for the company to not provide the proper treatments to the animals in order to grow strong and healthy. They just modify their food by adding chemicals to make them grow faster. What we don’t realize is that if we buy those products, we are not just only eating the animal, we are eating all the chemicals too. According to “Has Your Food Changed Over the Past 100 Years?” by Dr. stroll “a recent study showed that only 11% of Americans eat 2 fruits and 3 vegetables every day. This unhealthy combination of nutrient poor …show more content…
We are so busy with our responsibilities at work or school that we don’t take care of our bodies. Actually people think they save money by buying fast food but the reality of this is the more they eat it, the more they will get sick. If they get sick, in order to get well they have to visit the doctor or sometimes the hospital and this comes with bills and we all know that hospital bills are no close to be