We Are What We Eat Analysis

You Are What You Eat
In Michael Pollan’s article, We Are What We Eat, Pollan explains the problems of overproducing calories, overproducing corn, as well as the presence of fast food in the United States and how they are involved in the problems of over producing calories or over producing corn. The problem with overproduction is that “it (overproduction) sooner or later leads to overconsumption, because we’re very good at figuring out how to turn surpluses into inexpensive, portable new products.” (Pollan). The more we make, the more we can consume. This is one of the main problems with America today. We seem to have an unlimited source of corn, which makes up most every food. This whole situation is a supply and demand situation. Officials …show more content…
All three of these aspects seem to jump out when specifically focusing on only that when attending to a grocery store. As expected all of their fresh food, fruits and veggies, were right in the front of the store when walking in. This gives the entire atmosphere a feeling of a healthy, clean, nice store. Next were the meats. And in this case, it is not the packaged meat that you don’t know how long it has been sitting there. This is the meat, fresh and new, in the glass case, with a butcher waiting to take orders. All of the processed and artificial/unhealthy food was tucked into the back, or into the aisles of the store. These are the things crave and will buy, but are not the best way to advertise a store. All of the things first seem when walking in are advertised as being healthy and fresh. This easily catches the attention of buyers who want to be healthy and good to their bodies. An artificial food which is unhealthy would not be advertised as healthy. Instead, they use the method of talking about how good it tastes to lure in buyers. In these cases, the mention of what is in the artificial food is not described …show more content…
I suspected that her diet and lifestyle would be a lot more different than my father, who was born and raised in Massachusetts. Even inside of Tokorozawa, my mother grew up in the outskirts, on a farm. This makes a tremendous difference between our diets here in the United States in the 21st century versus her diet on a small farm in Japan in the 20th century. Since she lived on a farm, all of her food came from a source that she knew of. Her family very rarely went out to buy food, other than candy, which was only eaten when the children made enough money doing chores around the farm to buy some. The one exception to this was fish. Even then, the fish would be bought from a fisherman every morning, fresh from the ocean. An immense difference between our diets and her diet is the amount of meat. I am not a vegetarian, or a vegan, but I am an athlete, so I consume meat about twice a day. My mother, growing up in Japan had rice and fish with every meal. The only day that they would eat meat would be on Sundays. And since they would be eating meat, they would not have fish. The difference in supply is quite apparent. In our world, just driving over and buying meat or any food for a matter of fact does not seem like too much of an effort. In my mother's case, they worked for all of their food constantly by growing it, and keeping it