Food Production In the United States
On average an adult in the United States will eat about 1,825 lbs. of food each year. To provide food to over 300 million consumers, a lot of procedures must be conducted and followed. This demand has altered the ways of food production. “The average meal has ingredients that have traveled 1,500 miles to our table” (Smith 2). All these ingredients came from a farm. Mass producing food has made local farmers disappear. This disappearance has caused food more likely to be imported and not locally grown. The rise of the commercial food production has led to higher use of harmful chemicals. The effects of these chemicals are negative and never ending. To meet the growing demands of the United States population, food producers must use harmful pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, and hormones to supply the necessary amount of food to the United States. This mass production has lasting effects, when there are other alternatives instead of buying commercially produced food.
Pesticides have been around for a …show more content…
“The pressing issue to feed the increasing world population has created a demand to enhance food production, which has to be cheaper, but at the same time must meet high quality standards” (“Food Additives” 1). The ways that commercial farmers produce food is wrong. Commercial farmers prefer quantity of quality to meet food demands in the United States. Their ways of producing so fast is by adding pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, and hormones that have lasting effects on the human body. Most of these effects are irreversible. There are other alternatives that could be explored, instead of the turmoil of additives. These chemicals affect all living animals in every habitat and the planet. This creates a chain reaction for animals and their food cycle and environment. It is not what goes in your mouth that kills you, but one day this might not be
On average an adult in the United States will eat about 1,825 lbs. of food each year. To provide food to over 300 million consumers, a lot of procedures must be conducted and followed. This demand has altered the ways of food production. “The average meal has ingredients that have traveled 1,500 miles to our table” (Smith 2). All these ingredients came from a farm. Mass producing food has made local farmers disappear. This disappearance has caused food more likely to be imported and not locally grown. The rise of the commercial food production has led to higher use of harmful chemicals. The effects of these chemicals are negative and never ending. To meet the growing demands of the United States population, food producers must use harmful pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, and hormones to supply the necessary amount of food to the United States. This mass production has lasting effects, when there are other alternatives instead of buying commercially produced food.
Pesticides have been around for a …show more content…
“The pressing issue to feed the increasing world population has created a demand to enhance food production, which has to be cheaper, but at the same time must meet high quality standards” (“Food Additives” 1). The ways that commercial farmers produce food is wrong. Commercial farmers prefer quantity of quality to meet food demands in the United States. Their ways of producing so fast is by adding pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, and hormones that have lasting effects on the human body. Most of these effects are irreversible. There are other alternatives that could be explored, instead of the turmoil of additives. These chemicals affect all living animals in every habitat and the planet. This creates a chain reaction for animals and their food cycle and environment. It is not what goes in your mouth that kills you, but one day this might not be