Food Inc. By Eric Schlosser And Michael Pollan

We come across varieties of food everyday, but we know very little about where it comes from and their history. Reading Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma opened my eyes to all that goes into producing what I eat. Pollan explores three different modern food chains in his book: the industrial, the organic, and the hunter-gatherer.

For many decades the food system was an endless controversial issue on how our food was processed and the impertioness. This issue influenced Upton Sinclair who wrote a book called “The Jungle”, which exposed the secrets of the meat industry and unsanity poor conditions of the slaughterhouses, indeed, this book inspired president Roosevelt right into action for solutions for the problem, with great struggle the meat inspection Act of 1906 came into law. Till today many reformers and authors are exposing the large corporations that have full control over the food production and how fast foods had a huge affect on families all over the world. For example, Fast Food Nation, Food Inc, and Fast Food Babies had one aim and that was to bring awareness

In the twentieth century, the government of the United States began taking more of an interest in the food industry. Soon after the twentieth century began, the government realized the harsh conditions in the factories and how unsanitary they were so they went from favoring big businesses to passing laws against the cruelties they did and regulating the items sold in the United States. The government’s regulation of the food industry in American history has evolved from them ignoring the problems and letting factories do what they wanted in the nineteenth century, to them having full control over the food industry in the present-day by passing laws and creating organizations such as the Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, and the Food

The articles of discussion in this essay is The Food Movement, Rising and The Meal: Grass-Fed by Michael Pollan. His first article is broken into three “chapters” that each supports a different view behind the food movement. Overall Pollan’s stance throughout this article is in favor of the food movement and he helped bring a large general audience together that could resonate with one of the offered perspectives. In his first chapter Pollan talks about the unhealthiness behind the modern food industry and how fast food is affecting the public’s health and wallet. Moving on to the second chapter, Pollan highlights various organizations and familiar faces, such as Michelle Obama, that are involved and trying to elicit change within the political

Intro: When people eat food they do not think about what is in it, or how it is made. The only thing people care about is what the food tastes like and how much they get. During the 1900’s the meat packing industry had not regulations of any kind. All that mattered to the industry was that they made as much money as possible with as little expenditure as possible. During this times people were often made sick and died either from working conditions or poor food quality.

The director’s assertion, in the film, is also that food companies are in control of what goes in our food and how is it produced. The documentary investigates

Food Rules Essay Initially, Michael Pollan, author of the eating manual Food Rules appeared not to understand the actual science of eating. the first few rules called out many foods we eat as containing “chemicals” and to avoid them, even though everything we eat, including health foods, is by definition a chemical. Upon further reading, the other rules did have very relatable and thoughtful meanings and applications. I particularly resonated with rule 53, “Don 't go back for seconds”, rule 47, “Eat when you are hungry not when you are bored”, and rule 55, “Eat meals.”

Think about it. We make millions off of fine artisan craft, food and for what? To be fed? To be satisfied? No, we eat the best that money can afford because that is what makes this nation so great.

Not just Americans, but humans in general have over eat. We are becoming an obese society. With obesity comes health risk. People today have greater chances of developing heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes. Mcdonald's had a video that came out years ago called Super Size Me.

In “How Junk Food Can End Obesity,” by David H. Freedman, he claims that processed foods can help fix the obesity crisis in a more realistic manner, rather than whole-some foods. The popular opinion emphasizes whole-some foods because they aren’t informed about the similitude between processed and unprocessed foods. The essence of the essay is that people believe processed foods are bad and unhealthy for us, therefore whole-some foods are highly recommended for the health of an individual. Freedman mentions many prominent authors who wrote books on food processing, but the most influential voice in the food culture Freedman makes a point of is, American journalist, Michael Pollan. The media and Michael Pollan indicate that everything should be replaced with real, fresh, and unprocessed foods, instead of engineering in as much sugar, salt, and fat as possible into industrialized foods.

This epidemic has led to the reconstruction of many company’s strategies. Reconstructing recipes to take out gluten, removing artificial flavors, and finding a way to meet the consumer’s new requirements are a few ways many companies are going about making new decisions. It is said that American shoppers tend to ignore the main isles of the store, this is possible because organic and fresh vegetables and fruits would be located on the outer parts of the store. Ignoring those middle isle leaves them with no temptation on buying processed goods from those companies. This is another reason we are seeing big name brands such as Campbell’s and Hersey redesigning their products to fit the needs of

Junk food is responsible for the growing rate of obesity. This is outlined by David freedman in his article of “How junk food can end obesity.” David Freedman has credited the “health-food” motion, and followers of it along with Michel Pollan. Freedman claims that if the America desires to stop the obesity epidemic, or at least reduce its effects, they must shift to the fast meals and processed meals enterprise for assist, now not the “health-food” movement.

Countless social issues within America today can be traced back to the food industry. Although

Food Inc., a documentary directed by Robert Kenner, shows you the real truth behind what Americans assume is healthy about their food. It comes to show how the food industry can be very inhumane. They treat the farmers awful, fill the animals with chemicals that makes them grow twice their size, and the workers work in poor conditions. Capitalism can be seen throughout this documentary taken to the extreme. Along with capitalism, abuse is also one of the key aspects shown throughout the film.

People need to take initiative to stop eating food that’s not healthy for them because at the end of the day it’s all up to you to stay healthy. Our country become less responsible for their own health and start to blame everyone else for their own health but look at us not eating right and wondering why they are not feeling good, you’re not doing the right thing. This world is full of