We Are What We Eat Summary

The setting takes place at a puppet magic show in a grand theater. Every seat is sold out and the room is packed with people shoulder to shoulder. Loud booms, spectacular lights, and fireworks distract the audience from the operator of the performing puppets on center stage. They perform tricks that Harry Houdini would’ve never been able to do or imagine. The crowd loves the show because puppets seem almost human by having a mind of their own. You start to wonder what’s really going on and the person that’s pulling the strings to these puppets.
In our everyday lives, we generally decide what we put on the table but we aren’t exactly sure where our food comes from, besides the store. Jamey Lionette and William Saletan have analyzed and questioned the origins of where our food comes from and what our food is. In the article “Please don’t feed the people”, William Saletan confronts the shifts in the human race in the increase of obesity as well as constructing an idea of how we became “unhealthy”. Jamey Lionette created “We Are What We Eat”, to examine and describe the corrupt injustice of supermarkets and their effects on society. These articles have provided many ideas as to what we think we consume and what we really consume and at the end of the day, we don’t eat the best
In his article you can see his frustration with chain supermarkets and effect on society. He notes that the supermarkets are the cause for poor food supplies and it’s difficult to trust them when they advertise for organic food. Part of the problem dates back to the Great Depression when food was too expensive and Word War II when people didn’t pay attention to food. As time passed supermarkets became the “saving grace”. “Supermarkets were a “progressive” thing, as suburban living was progressive.” As we moved into more of a suburan lifestyle supermarkets made the unthinkable possible and