Food Inc Essay

Estiven Martinez
Biology - Period 4
November 19, 2012

Food Inc Essay

People deserve the right to know what’s in their food. Many people go through life without even knowing or caring about what’s in their food and that can lead to many problems later in their lives. People should demand food companies label all the ingredients in our food.

Food is a major factor in our health and we don’t know if we are damaging our health if we don’t know what’s in our food. We can not take responsibility if we get sick from our food because we don’t know what is in our food. If we can not even know what is in our food or even criticize it, then what kind of government do we have? This is why we must know what factories are doing to our food.  

Factories mix their meat and spread bacteria during the process. Many people all over the world get sick from food produced by factories and people can even die from E.coli, a bacteria that lives in intestines of animals and even people. Annually in the United States there are 73,000 cases of  E. coli and about 61 people die from it. There have been many outbreaks of E. coli the past couple of years since factories started getting bigger and less sanitary and usually the contamination starts in the slaughtering process.

Although  there are many reasons why we should know what’s in our food, there are reasons why it is ok for factories to not tell us. Its the companies product they can do whatever they want with it because we are not forced to buy it. Also, a companies function is to make money and they can’t make money if nobody wants to buy their product. Finally, factories are owned by people and if we inspect their product it violates their rights.  

In conclusion, we are being lied to about are food. We do not even know if we are eating healthy anymore because companies are putting so many unhealthy ingredients in our food. Also, many people will continue to get sick and die if we do not stand up and do something about it. We must regulate the food system so we do not damage our health.

Sorry for turning it in late i’m not home and I didn’t have access to a computer.