Fast Food Documentary Analysis

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Shayla Herrera
Economics
Final Essay
May,2018

The way we eat has changed over the past 50 years. Mammoth corporations have taken over all of the food chain in the United States, from all farms where our food is grown to the restaurants and supermarkets where it’s sold. Our food industry is brutal, and economically and environmentally unsustainable. The revolution of producing foods has changed with all the advanced technology, this changed the method which the food is mass produced for a mass population. This documentary has shown the ways that the food industry/ production has changed.

Today’s society in supermarkets especially there are over 47 thousand products. Most of foods like meats and other products are being marketed as “farm fresh”. One of the major things spoken about was corn. Corn was referred to as “conquering” the world in many ways. 30 percent of the land base is used to plant corn. Farmers are paid to overproduced. Corn is such a big factor that is used to engineer new foods. 90 percent of products on shelf’s in supermarkets would probably contain a corn or soybean ingredient. Corn products are ketchup, twinkies, batteries, peanut butter, salad dressing and more. Corn is a great raw material advertised to use on the processed food and to be fed to animals. Since we have an …show more content…

This issue is concerning to how society is utilizing corn. As said before because of the mass production of corn it uses a big amount of fertile land. The new utilization of corn created bigger problems for health and land use. When feeding corn to cows, E. Coli which is a common thing happens because of this, this is a on going process especially when these cows stand in their own feces and when they are processed and slaughtered this then goes into our food. E.Coli is found our greens and apple juice and many other things because of the run off from the farm

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