The springtime is your opportunity to bring real food from your own garden to your plate."Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life" is a non-fiction book by Barbara Kingsolver, published in 2007. In fact, the people running the industrial farms have strategy meetings to discuss new ways of getting you to consume all these surplus calories, resulting in widespread obesity. Genetically modified food does not have to be labelled as such, meaning that, even if you don’t want to eat GM foods, the food industry has nonetheless figured out how to get them into your body. People are consuming way more calories than they require, often without knowing it.įinally, genetically modified (GM) plants are almost ubiquitous in the US food supply chain, and are often difficult to avoid. Today, American farmers still produce 3,900 calories per citizen per day. Moreover, the calories we consume today come in forms that are hardly recognizable when compared to real food.Īfter World War II the US government relied on chemical fertilizers to guarantee a cheap, steady supply of corn and soybeans in order to produce high-fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated oils, and to feed cattle and poultry.īut that production never slowed down. But prices are high for a reason: farmers personally tended to those vegetables and took great care of those animals. People even complain about the high prices of organic meats and vegetables. But as long as prices stay low, people will buy from giant corporations instead of their local farmers’ market. Most people are fully aware that most animals destined for consumption endure horrific conditions before being slaughtered. These corporations use synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, and genetically modify their products in order to produce them cheaply – a far cry from the local, organic food people crave. Nonetheless, they tend to purchase those products from giant food corporations. It’s true that most people today want products from local, organic farmers. For the most part, we’ve entirely forgotten about local farmers. Foods now have bizarre, made-up names foodstuff is imported and exported all over the world.
Living in the city for so long has removed us from the process of food creation.
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