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Damn You, Food Industry!

Factory to fork is a more mysterious journey than it may seem.

The food industry is always under speculation for reasons that the average person is held in the dark about.  Unfortunately, the safety of the consumer is not the number one priority.  Companies make all of their decisions based on money/profits, leading to them going out of their way to find loopholes in the system to get away with controversial issues due to the lack of government involvement.

To actually become educated about the process that occurs to get the food eaten on a daily basis from factory to fork, people would have to go out of their way to research it.  Unfortunately, the problems with the food industry aren’t “extreme” enough to catch a person’s attention and give them reasoning to ever doubt.  Top of Form

The USDA and FDA are a joke because after reading Nestle’s “Resisting Food Safety” and seeing what actually goes on is embarrassing.  The USDA and FDA are government issued.  This article is a little outdated, but it goes on to say that “7000 food inspectors cover 20% of the food supply in the country”, which includes; meat, poultry, and eggs, while “700 food inspectors cover the other 80% of the food supply”, which is all food except; meat, poultry, and eggs.  To honestly think that only 700 people can “inspect” 80% of the food supply for the US is absurd.  There is no way they can do their job fully nor efficiently, especially when inspections only occur once every five years.  Some of the jobs of the USDA are, to run DAILY inspections of giant factories and slaughterhouses, while also checking the health of the animals that are going to be slaughtered.  To do this on the daily seems to be a stretch and probably isn’t accurate, which of course the corporations who run the factories have no problem with it.

This is a world run by money; to hear all of the things that are done behind the scenes and all of the moves that corporations make to continue receiving their paychecks, once again, isn’t surprising.  Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, build relationships and sponsor organizations like, the American Society for Nutrition (ASN).  By forming these relationships, they have the reassurance that their name won’t be branded as an “unhealthy” institution.  

It is definitely a smart move and another loophole through the system to continue what they are doing.  Since nobody would want to lose a sponsorship with Coca-Cola, an article “Processed Feud: How the Food Industry Shapes Nutrition” put it in a way that of course links it back to money; “criticism of processed foods, or the very products on which these companies’ bottom lines depend, would endanger such relationships”. When this much control is established there is little that can be done.  The article continues to talk about how much processed food has sky rocketed over the last fifty years.  It is hard to deny facts and numbers, but when they are barely brought up, they are given little to no attention.  

Indirectly, money is talked about a lot whether it’s in the means of how much industrial farmers are paid, how much government funding should be versus how much it actually is, and how the corporations with plenty of money continuously get away with keeping the average consumer in the dark.  It is ridiculous, but of course, not surprising.  Something big has to happen to make the government crack down.  A couple of un-reported stomachaches here and there obviously aren’t enough to get the government to do more. If people started dying or getting really ill because of the carelessness behind the scenes, then we will finally see the government do their job and ultimately see change.  

With change, comes the issue of prices.  Price of food is more important than how healthy it is and how it’s made/ how it gets to the stores.  It costs more to be healthy than it does to be unhealthy.  The amount of food you can get at McDonald’s for five dollars is significantly more than what you can do with five dollars at Wegmans.  “ Healthy” foods are usually categorized as organic and as anybody would know who has been to a grocery store, these organic foods will surely do damage to anyone’s bank account.

Companies like to sway the attention away from their unhealthy products.  To bring it back to companies like PepsiCo, the article, “Is the Food Industry the Problem or the Solution?”, brought up that PepsiCo and others are aiming to make children more active.  I guess the reasoning behind that is for the kids to lose the extra weight they put on by consuming PepsiCo products.  This may also just be for the publicity as “STILL, skeptics say all this can be a smokescreen for food, beverage and restaurant companies”.  Which is proven true in the case with PepsiCo as they still look to win “exclusive on-campus vending contracts” to keep the money rolling in.  Loophole!

The loopholes coincide with government involvement.  Consumer Reports’ “You Are What They Eat” expresses diligently that the government is careless about what is being fed to cattle.  The FDA issued out a feed ban that would hopefully stop the transmission of mad cow disease.  Like mentioned earlier, the FDA is a joke and after more than four years “had not cracked down on companies found noncompliant on multiple inspections”. It couldn’t get any more blatant and obvious than that.  

Since things like that stand out so easily, people like to complain about industrial farming and how animals are treated.  In Blake Hurst’s “The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-Intellectuals” it is proven that industrial farmers receive a lot of **** because of the ignorance of consumers and them not realizing that the farmers have to conform to the economy.   If industrial farming were taken away, food prices would skyrocket, which the average consumer may not know.  There hasn’t been a new way of farming discovered that could cover such a large demand along with being as cheap and efficient.

Cheap and efficient is what this country runs on, but it’s not always the safest.  Everyone wants food to be healthy and especially safe, but don’t education themselves on what that would take.  The large corporations that are running the food industry will continue what they’re doing until they are not allowed to anymore.  If the checks are coming in, they have no reason to change their ways.  Loopholes will always be found and there will always be a way to veer attention away from the obvious issues.  It is the people’s job to walk into the light that has been taken away and do whatever it takes to see change.

                                       Money rules the world!