Dr. Eugene Baer
ENG 101
May 2 2013
Truth of meat industry
The food industries have been significantly changed for a few decades, especially increased number of big supermarkets and enlarged livestock industry. Emerging of big supermarkets has let convenient purchases possible by offering various choices of products to the consumers. A movie Food Inc. finds that a usual super market in the United States has 27,000 products (“Food”). Additionally, livestock industry has become one of the largest industries in America.
Figure 1: the World’s Biggest Meat-eaters.
As figure 1, a statistics by The Economist online, indicates, the United States is the second country eating most meats in a year among the 18 centuries. However, …show more content…
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