Food Inc

The food industry and how food is processed has changed dramatically over the past fifty plus years. The food industry is longer run by farmers. It is now operated more like an industry in a factory setting. Foods like chicken and beef are now produced in massive quantities from enormous assembly lines. The popularity of fast food brought the factory system into the food processing industry. McDonalds was the first restaurant to incorporate this system. Due to the demand for more food, the demand to produce certain types of food in large quantities in a certain amount of time increased. McDonalds became the largest purchaser of foods such as ground beef, chicken, lettuce, and even apples. This caused the need for certain types of food to be produced in large amounts to meet the demands of business. Meat companies had to increase their product in order to meet the needs of the fast food industry. The quality of the food became less important than the quality and the cost to produce in order to maintain an increase in profit needed to be less. The meat packing industry is now one of the most dangerous industries to work in compared to how it was fifty plus years ago. Food is now coming from enormous assembly lines where the animals and its workers are now being abused. The value and convenience of food is now more important than the overall nutrition and environmental impact. Most of the foods we eat now come from corn. Corn is a major contributor of the food industry and became a major factor in the processing of food and what is being fed to the animals and this consists of mainly cows. It is the main component of feed ingredients to the cows. There are a few reasons and one major reason is that corn is very cheap. Corn also makes animals gain a lot of weight in a short amount of time. Corn is in almost all of the food that we eat. Seventy percent of the foods that we consumer are made from corn. Corn fed cows put more money in the beef industry’s pockets and