Persuasive Essay About Food

We’ve been taught since we could understand the English language that it’s important to eat three meals a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner. We were also taught about the food pyramid, we need a certain amount of grains, vegetables, fruits, dairy products and meats in our system in order to keep a vigorous healthy lifestyle. Seems easy enough, but is it really? With the way today’s food industry is set up, it doesn’t seem that simple. We have so many industries today, specifically the meat industry, giving us false advertisement of the way our food is being made, giving us the assumption that we’re eating good viable food that’s contributing to keeping ourselves healthy, when in reality we’re being fed overly processed, artificially flavored …show more content…
What actually goes on is the complete opposite, and seeing the cruel treatments these animals go through really changes your view on what you’re eating. In my personal opinion, even though this wouldn’t work for manufacturing and distributing the certain amount of meat needed to stock up this countries supermarkets, I feel as though we need to revert back to the way animals were raised and produced 50-100 years ago. Back then animals were raised on actual farms and they weren’t injected with various chemicals and liquid fillers in order to make them bigger and have them taste “better”, they weren’t crowded together with thousands of other animals living right on top of each other and raised in dark confined spaces without sun. All of these actions are what I saw in the film and it was devastating. As a meat consumer myself, someone who just can’t seem to give up eating chicken, it would make me feel a hundred times better knowing the animals were being treated and raised