The corporation and the food industry —consisting of factory farms— are directly responsible for the exploitation of workers and the public health and dietary crisis in America. Jim Hightower and Michael Pollan do an outstanding job exposing the lies behind the industries and revealing the truth to the consumers. The way our food industry has shifted has negatively impacted our society. Big corporations are running thousands of people out of jobs and treating their own employees unfairly and poorly and our society has yet to act on this. However, corporations are not the only thing harming the people, it is also the food industry. The American diet has become a national security, and the way we grow food relates to chronic health diseases including
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Jim Hightower makes a hyperbolic statement comparing the Walmart Corporation to criminals saying, “Wal-Mart, the recidivist criminal, is back in trouble with the law. Jesse James, Bonnie & Clyde, and Al Capone had nothing on this notorious violator of our nation’s laws and moral code of behavior” (Hightower, 2003). He compares Wal-Mart to reoffending criminals because of how the treat employees, customers, and what they have done to they are worse to America than Jesse James, Bonnie & Clyde, and Al Capone, who are nationally known for being criminals. Wal-Mart robs its workers from a fair wage and treatment. They have run many thousands of local stores out of business, only to take advantage of the millions of employees they have, including those in China. The reason they are able to run so many out of business is because they are able to obtain products for an unbelievably low price. Wal-Mart buys from the Chinese whose average wage is about fifty cents an hour. How can any local farmers market, or store, compete with the wages and prices of Wal-Mart? In a documentary about Walmart, it is said that Wal-Mart makes an unbelievable profit from other countries. “The margins were incredible starting from sixty to seventy to eighty percent, compared to twenty percent. Walmart makes money from products coming from other countries”. Although Wal-Mart makes an unbelievable amount of sales and is one of the biggest corporations in America, it has deprived many of fair wages, fair treatment, and most of all a fair chance for local
Jim Hightower makes a hyperbolic statement comparing the Walmart Corporation to criminals saying, “Wal-Mart, the recidivist criminal, is back in trouble with the law. Jesse James, Bonnie & Clyde, and Al Capone had nothing on this notorious violator of our nation’s laws and moral code of behavior” (Hightower, 2003). He compares Wal-Mart to reoffending criminals because of how the treat employees, customers, and what they have done to they are worse to America than Jesse James, Bonnie & Clyde, and Al Capone, who are nationally known for being criminals. Wal-Mart robs its workers from a fair wage and treatment. They have run many thousands of local stores out of business, only to take advantage of the millions of employees they have, including those in China. The reason they are able to run so many out of business is because they are able to obtain products for an unbelievably low price. Wal-Mart buys from the Chinese whose average wage is about fifty cents an hour. How can any local farmers market, or store, compete with the wages and prices of Wal-Mart? In a documentary about Walmart, it is said that Wal-Mart makes an unbelievable profit from other countries. “The margins were incredible starting from sixty to seventy to eighty percent, compared to twenty percent. Walmart makes money from products coming from other countries”. Although Wal-Mart makes an unbelievable amount of sales and is one of the biggest corporations in America, it has deprived many of fair wages, fair treatment, and most of all a fair chance for local