| How Does the Knowledge of Food Effect the Way Americans Eat? (DRAFT) |
Paper on Industrial Food & Your Own Food ways that reworks some of your previous assignments, and your additional and evolving thoughts
We are all as stubborn as can be. Although I have learned a lot from this unit and have gain new insight, I do feel that the industrialization of food has progressed so far that change is not near. Food in America has changed drastically over the years. Now slaughtered livestock and industrialized vegetables have taken over the once precious places of friendly community farms. As this change in the food corporation has happen, people have either turned a blind eye to the situation or just not know the truth. Some might agree that in industrialized food has not changed because not enough people know the facts behind industrialization food. Instead I believe that Americans will not change their food habits even with the knowledge of how the food ended up on their plate.
Speaking for myself, as I went back on my older blogs I have noticed that my food ways remained the same throughout every new insight that I learned. It dawned on me what would actually force someone to change his or her food ways for the better and stop the “juggernaut” of industrialized food. Although I was taken back a lot by the videos of animal cruelty >http://www.chooseveg.com/animal-cruelty.asp< it didn’t do enough to make me stop eating meat. I think the root of food way’s problem is the habit that we create growing up. “Life on the farm isn't what it used to be. The green pastures and idyllic barnyard scenes portrayed in children's books have been replaced by windowless sheds, tiny crates, wire cages, and other confinement systems integral to what is now known as "factory farming."” (Choose Veg) If we change how future generations think about food then change is sure to come. As for my generation I think the only hope is to inform people on the crisis.
Another way to help change the way Americans view food is to stop industrialized food and get more personal with how the food is made. If there were more community gardens and people got to feel the processes of growing food then maybe they would connect that bond with the bonds of food that comes from un-industrialized farms and not purchase the other produce. In class friends of mine loved the processes of tying and failing over and over again just to produce something that they invested a lot of time into. “I feel really bad for those farmers who do this everyday. It has to take them forever to grown something if they did it by themselves.” (Samantha Rios) If more people got to feel the processes of growing a plant then they might value the effort that other farmers invest into their farms. Although many of my classmates felt the same way they still continued to purchase industrial food and have not changed they way they eat.
In general knowledge alone is not enough to change the habitual food ways of Americans today. Maybe in the future if Americans grasp the true understanding of industrialization and food in the world people will begin to look deeper into what hey are purchasing at local grocery stores. |
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"people got to feel the processes of growing food then maybe they would connect that bond with the bonds of food that comes from un-industrialized farms and not purchase the other produce."
Insightful.
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posted by Lauren at 
"people got to feel the processes of growing food then maybe they would connect that bond with the bonds of food that comes from un-industrialized farms and not purchase the other produce."
Insightful.