Warner Processed Foods Summary

Warner’s research produced plenty of information on the chemicals and many ingredients put into food. She also gives an unsettling image about how companies tout simple ingredients, with chemically transforming them so they come in consistent shapes and sizes, last for years and shelves, and have all their natural nutrition stripped away. Warner’s points are disturbing; as she puts out, because of a combination of genetic modifications. Commercial farming practices, and the abuse the meat sustains to become frozen food, most processed chicken meals require chicken flavoring. Warner interviewed many food scientists and most of them said they would rather cook their own meal than eat the processed food they prepare for other’s to eat. Warner gives you many facts about the ingredients put into food and doesn’t try and persuade you to no longer eat processed food, in my opinion she just wants everyone to understand what exactly many Americans are consuming …show more content…
They’re creating foods that are cheaper than the real equivalent and healthier than previous versions of the same processed foods. Of course, this implies that there was something wrong with the old version of processed foods, and while they never specifically admit it, they live in a tech savvy world where the new product is always better than the old. Although I do agree that processed food isn’t the best choice I also think it has done well, because it allows more people to afford food and to feed more people without over spending. Healthy food is expensive and many Americans can’t afford to spend four hundred dollars every week on healthy non processed food. Processed food is made out to be the worst food ever made, but what about the good it has made it allows many people to help others and it has a longer shelve life, therefore, the food is getting threw away after a week of sitting in the fridge, which also saves