Eat & Die

  














As I child, I was taught to eat corn with salt and lemon, or with mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, and cheese. My grandmother used corn to create her delicious tamales - A Guatemalan meal made by corn, chicken, raisins and peppers.  I moved from Guatemala four year ago, and I have been attending college the last two years. I have been learning the other uses corn offers in many products.



I consider myself to be a foolish person because it took me a long time to realize the food industry is manipulating animal's diets. As an example, chicken, cow, pork, and fish. American supermarkets does not have seasons. all the products look fresh; the meat is boneless, but the alterations are risky. animal's health is affect, so human's health started to be affected too. As an illustration, form the movie Food Inc, Kevin was a two year old boy healthy, until he ate a hamburger. After, 12 days he ate it; he died from E.Coli poisoning.

     One cause in their diet alteration is mass production. for example, in 1930 America created the drive-thru. The McDonald brothers decided to simplify their drive-thru by getting rid of their employees, and they trained their workers to do one thing over and over. Also, McDonald's is one of the largest buyers of beef, potatoes, chickens, apples, pork, lettuce and tomatoes.

Big corporations do not allow farmers to slow down. they want chickens to be raise in 48 days, instead of 70 days. Those companies change the way chickens are raised,. now chickens are twice as big they were before. They are not able to walk because of their weight. In addition, Corporations hired illegal workers to recollect their profits. They are controlling farmers with huge amounts of debt. Farmers are getting pay to overproduce food.

Companies have changed the way we eat food. They control 80 percent of the food market. In addition, the American way of life does not allow  the family unit time to cook at home. Parents are busy and  their children's scheduled are very demanding resulting in everyone getting home very late in the day. Before I watched Food Inc. I did eat in restaurants. Now after having watched the movie Food Inc. I do not  buy poultry from big companies, and  I no longer go out  to restaurants to eat.