Food Sustainability: Feeding America Healthily and Economically

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The Purpose of the Study:
The purpose of the study is to determine how sustainable food is helping America economically and health wise rather than unsustainable foods. In this study I will examine what it means for food to be sustainable and unsustainable. I will find out how America is able to stay strong due to the use of sustainable foods. While, showing that America is also slowly dying, because of the problem, which is unsustainable foods. In this study I will also determine how unsustainable is destroying America's environment.
Background of the Problem:
The study will focus on the problem, which is how sustainable food is helping America, while unsustainable foods are destroying America. The study will examine how unsustainable foods and sustainable foods affect America economically, in health, and the environment. The study will examine the fact that unsustainable foods are still being made despite the fact that it is not helping America, but is making it worse, all for money. This study will go deeper and look at how unsustainable foods are made, such as, Genetically Modified Foods and why how they are made is effecting the environment.
Significance of the Study:
This study shows the importance on how America is being affected in a bad way, because of unsustainable foods. Unsustainable foods are not just hurting America as a whole, but could be affecting you. According, to the CSA “Many children in the US have developed life-threatening allergies to peanuts and other foods”. This is because, of food unsustainability. This study will give an insight on how sustainable foods are helping America rather than unsustainable foods. This idea will help turn America away from heading down the wrong path which is uns...

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...nts that are harmful are released. The factory farms have not only been seen to affect humans, but the animals also. The food given to these animals are supposed to make them grow faster, but it is also causing serious digestive problems for the animals. According to the Sustainable Table, “recent studies have shown that chemical additives in feed may accumulate in animal tissues, potentially exposing consumers to unwanted chemicals such as veterinary drug residues and heavy metals.” This is not fair for the animals and humans to have to suffer through something like this just so unhealthy food can be produced.
Environmental Impact of Unsustainable Foods
One of the big problems that came along with unsustainable foods is its terrible impact on the environment. The factory farms that have produced these unsustainable foods have caused a lot of pollution.

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