Introduction
Today, consumers have easy access to unhealthy foods, especially with many fast food places. Citizens of America are unaware of the health risks when they consume the unhealthy. Maxfield introduces “Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating” because with eating unhealthy foods “we’re a nation stricken by heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.” (Maxfield, 2006) Another one of the health risks is bacteria found in the processed meat that people have died from. The reason for the for the health risks is due to companies taking shortcuts in their raising of livestock and production lines followed by the layout of the grocery stores. Companies have made millions from the sales with their products on the shelves of many …show more content…
There, it mentions a child that was two years old getting E. coli food poisoning from a hamburger that was sold at a local fast food restaurant. This innocent child eventually died from this new strain of E. coli. However, the food industry continues to feed the farm animals corn even though there is a high possibility that this was the primary cause of the development of a new strain of E. coli. Smithfield had made a response to Food Inc. “We believe we have a moral obligation to protect and promote the wellbeing of our animals, and this, in turn, promotes the production of safe quality food. So, not only is it the right thing to do, but ensuring quality animal care is also good for our business.” They had made the comment due to them not wanted people to see the inside of their farms. A person on the film then had said the reason for that is because Smithfield does not want people to see because they probably mistreating the livestock.
The Proposal of Action
In order to solve the problem regarding the American diet, the American citizens must be educated about the devastating effects that the food industry as a whole has on society. As mentioned earlier, the food industry only cares about the profit they make and nothing more. Moonkyu Lee a professor at Yonsei University in the marketing department had introduced that “A growing number of US fast‐food franchises are expanding operations to overseas markets.” (Lee, 1997). The U.S fast food industry mainly focused on expanding to make profits they are not concerned with the health risks or anything alike.
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Today, consumers have easy access to unhealthy foods, especially with many fast food places. Citizens of America are unaware of the health risks when they consume the unhealthy. Maxfield introduces “Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating” because with eating unhealthy foods “we’re a nation stricken by heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.” (Maxfield, 2006) Another one of the health risks is bacteria found in the processed meat that people have died from. The reason for the for the health risks is due to companies taking shortcuts in their raising of livestock and production lines followed by the layout of the grocery stores. Companies have made millions from the sales with their products on the shelves of many …show more content…
There, it mentions a child that was two years old getting E. coli food poisoning from a hamburger that was sold at a local fast food restaurant. This innocent child eventually died from this new strain of E. coli. However, the food industry continues to feed the farm animals corn even though there is a high possibility that this was the primary cause of the development of a new strain of E. coli. Smithfield had made a response to Food Inc. “We believe we have a moral obligation to protect and promote the wellbeing of our animals, and this, in turn, promotes the production of safe quality food. So, not only is it the right thing to do, but ensuring quality animal care is also good for our business.” They had made the comment due to them not wanted people to see the inside of their farms. A person on the film then had said the reason for that is because Smithfield does not want people to see because they probably mistreating the livestock.
The Proposal of Action
In order to solve the problem regarding the American diet, the American citizens must be educated about the devastating effects that the food industry as a whole has on society. As mentioned earlier, the food industry only cares about the profit they make and nothing more. Moonkyu Lee a professor at Yonsei University in the marketing department had introduced that “A growing number of US fast‐food franchises are expanding operations to overseas markets.” (Lee, 1997). The U.S fast food industry mainly focused on expanding to make profits they are not concerned with the health risks or anything alike.
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