Industrial farming poses dangers to our health, In Pleasures of Eating, Wendell Berry describes the importance of understanding the connection between eating and the land in order to extract pleasure from our food. When A Crop Becomes King is like Wendell Berry's article, however it focuses on corn and corn production in our food. Unlike the two articles listed above, David Barboza’s article: If You Pitch It They Will Eat It is about the advertisement part of the food industry, and how they manipulate us to buy there products. I agree that Industrial Farming is bad for our health and that this must be fixed or modified to fix eating habits.
To grow all this corn we have to use a ton of pesticides to keep animals from eating the crop. “The ecological impacts of corn production are poisoned groundwater, …show more content…
“These days the nation's nearly 80 million-acre field of corn rolls across the countryside like a second great lawn” - {Pollan} When we have all this extra corn we have to find ways to use it, that’s the hard part, they did find a way however. “10 percent of the calories Americans consume now come from corn sweeteners; the figure is 20 percent for many children.” - {Pollan}. I feel Pollan suggested that we should eat less corn, because of the effects it can have on your body.
Also another negative is the advertising, it’s like training the mind to buy the product they are selling. “They buy what they want---- or what they have been persuaded to want.” - {Berry}. This is causing consumers to eat pre made food with ingredients that are a mystery to the consumer. “The eaters are suffering a king of cultural amnesia that is misleading and dangerous.” - {Berry}. Mr.Berry is trying to help us and he suggests that we should be more aware of what we eat. If we consume less pre made junk, then we could make the whole country more
To grow all this corn we have to use a ton of pesticides to keep animals from eating the crop. “The ecological impacts of corn production are poisoned groundwater, …show more content…
“These days the nation's nearly 80 million-acre field of corn rolls across the countryside like a second great lawn” - {Pollan} When we have all this extra corn we have to find ways to use it, that’s the hard part, they did find a way however. “10 percent of the calories Americans consume now come from corn sweeteners; the figure is 20 percent for many children.” - {Pollan}. I feel Pollan suggested that we should eat less corn, because of the effects it can have on your body.
Also another negative is the advertising, it’s like training the mind to buy the product they are selling. “They buy what they want---- or what they have been persuaded to want.” - {Berry}. This is causing consumers to eat pre made food with ingredients that are a mystery to the consumer. “The eaters are suffering a king of cultural amnesia that is misleading and dangerous.” - {Berry}. Mr.Berry is trying to help us and he suggests that we should be more aware of what we eat. If we consume less pre made junk, then we could make the whole country more