The American Government contributes to the obesity epidemic by supporting unhealthy eating habits in order to make a profit the federal food administration supports factory farming, big pharmacies, politicians and subsidy program. Have you wondered why less healthy food is inexpensive compared to healthy food?When you go into a grocery store and compare the price of a large bag of Doritos and a bag of grapes. There is a big gap in the food industry filled with these genetically engineered snacks. These cheap convenient snacks are targeted at lower economic levels, they are forced to reconcile since their financial restrictions force them to do so.Obesity is peaking in america and we don't have anyone to blame but ourselves.Whereas there
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It all started by Genetic Modified Organisms(GMO). A genetically modified organism is a product that's genes have been altered to reach a desired result. In this case more yield.In history there was an epidemic where millions of people were dying due to malnutrition in their diet and boot enough time food to eat because there was simply not enough to food for the increasing world population.Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen the leaders of this new idea of GMOS experimented with the idea of alerting DNA in an organism in such a way that it produces the desired result without any downfall to the action. Their ideals have been blown way out of proportion because they have made a trap for the lower economy spiking fresh food higher.This takes me to my Currently in the U.S we have a huge production of corn since it goes in everything from Ethanol to Potato chips. Hence the reason it is 40 % of the agriculture in the …show more content…
It gives farmers incentives to favor growing one type of crop over another rather than the crop that fits their land or needs.Crops that are forced into everyday things like corns and peanuts have the most subsidies. According to alison winters from The Hill magazine this contributes to a two tiered society in which the people that are wealthy and know more people benefit at the expense of everyone else. This is bad because it restricts competitors who are not as wealthy so they don't have a lot of connections and this can make the people that are well connected very hard to challenge.The second tier is that it drives up the cost of food to the point where a average american has to hesitate to buy the food.For example the Sugar program in the U.S it makes sugar unaffordable and controls supply with import quotas. The USDA is enforced to buy the excess sugar and sell it to biofuel industry with taxpayer discounted dollars.This makes the price of sugar double and hard for an average american to obtain. This shows the extent of power the government has on
It all started by Genetic Modified Organisms(GMO). A genetically modified organism is a product that's genes have been altered to reach a desired result. In this case more yield.In history there was an epidemic where millions of people were dying due to malnutrition in their diet and boot enough time food to eat because there was simply not enough to food for the increasing world population.Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen the leaders of this new idea of GMOS experimented with the idea of alerting DNA in an organism in such a way that it produces the desired result without any downfall to the action. Their ideals have been blown way out of proportion because they have made a trap for the lower economy spiking fresh food higher.This takes me to my Currently in the U.S we have a huge production of corn since it goes in everything from Ethanol to Potato chips. Hence the reason it is 40 % of the agriculture in the …show more content…
It gives farmers incentives to favor growing one type of crop over another rather than the crop that fits their land or needs.Crops that are forced into everyday things like corns and peanuts have the most subsidies. According to alison winters from The Hill magazine this contributes to a two tiered society in which the people that are wealthy and know more people benefit at the expense of everyone else. This is bad because it restricts competitors who are not as wealthy so they don't have a lot of connections and this can make the people that are well connected very hard to challenge.The second tier is that it drives up the cost of food to the point where a average american has to hesitate to buy the food.For example the Sugar program in the U.S it makes sugar unaffordable and controls supply with import quotas. The USDA is enforced to buy the excess sugar and sell it to biofuel industry with taxpayer discounted dollars.This makes the price of sugar double and hard for an average american to obtain. This shows the extent of power the government has on