What is Food?

            In our country, we are very far removed from our food. We do not see every little thing that comes to us in nice, neat packages; we do not see the chicken that was grown in darkness all of its life; we do not see its life ended and made through a processing plant. We as consumers are ignorant to the making of what we call food today.

            There has been a rise in people wanting to know the origin of where their food comes from. Many famous critics like Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan have come out and informed the public about what they are really eating. A man named Christopher Cook tells about how there are plant workers with “upper-body disorders” that are not treated because the companies do not extend the benefits they should. The productions of things like chicken is not a clean business in the slightest. Also, things like tomatoes are picked when green and have gas used to make them ripe, meaning that they become tasteless to the public.

            We as a public cannot let things like the production of our food become what it is today. There are too many things that we do not know in our food production that we should fight to change that. These companies keep these secrets from us because what we want is cheap food, nothing else. If we can stand having slightly more expensive food for something of better quality, then we can improve our standard of living ever so slightly. I think that we as a public should take action for the process for the food that we eat.