Common Meat To Eat Analysis

Living in a modern society that has the necessity of maintaining the industrial food chain, it is inevitable to consume and purchase processed food. Beef is a common meat to eat, however, according to Pollan, there comes the realization that the beef is now fed by corns not grass, which allows them to grow faster, behaving against the nature and bringing the farmers higher profit. The products which are deceivingly cheap for the customers demonstrates the phenomenon of increasing unqualifiedly processed products that diminish the nature and society, bringing negative consequences and impact on the society.
The farming approach of corn-fed cows helps the farmers to grow more profits while diminishing the nature and people’s health. Pollan

describes his observation and experience with the steer number 534 which is raised by himself in order to observe the process of growing cattle. Steer number 534 was weaned from his mother and started to be fed by corn rather by the grass, which emphasizes the crucial behavior and strategies that the modern farmers use for making high profit with lower cost.
In the given quotation, Pollan stands alongside the steer, feeling heavy to imagine his steer as a corn-fed barrel of oil which is quite crucial for him that the truth of feeding the cows with a corn diet. Pollan states that “You are what you eat is a truism hard to argue with, and yet it is, as a visit to a feedlot suggests, incomplete, for you are what what you eat eats, too. And what we are, or have become, is not just meat but number 2 corn and oil” (84), which implicates the circumstances that it is essential to be aware of what you are actually consuming in order to know the Ingredients and processing well.
Not only has the diet of cows changed from grass to corn because of the interference by the farmers, but the consumption of nutrition regarding the people’s diet of beef has also deteriorated. By feeding the cows with corn, they can grow much faster than being fed by natural grass. Beef is supposed to be expensive and with high quality, however, due to the unhealthy corn-fed strategy, beef is as cheap as a 99 cent hamburger that consumed and favored by people. The falling prices of the hamburgers force the farmers to increase the production which allows them to sell out the cheap corn and continue to use corn-fed strategies on their cows, resulting in having more and more unhealthy and cheap meals.
The corn-fed industrial farm and its influence on the industrial food chain have a strong impact on the public and society, challenging the natural and ecological system. The cows are fed by corns, allowing the imagination of seeing a cow as a barrel of oil which brings a negative effect on the healthiness. Therefore, the cheap 99 cent hamburger is a symbol of unhealthy food, which brings the consequence of diminishing the nature and health system.