23.5 million people in America live in a food desert. A food desert is a geographic area where affordable and nutritious food is difficult to obtain, usually in rural areas and low-income communities. Not being able to have easy access to grocery stores changes multiple things. Most of the time you have to buy multiple of one item to prevent running out. This causes a problem because fruits and vegetables do not stay ripe forever.
The more a certain food is processed, the more mal nourished it becomes and, in turn, the more unhealthy it is. The problem with the American population is our eating habits have become accustom to these fatty, salty, and sugary items and it is why we crave and enjoy them. From the farm to the grocery store, the processing of food diminishes its nutritional value to nothing, sabotaging the American diet so far in diet related disease and obesity, our nation has become a slave to chemically altered foods.
Lisa Miller states in her article ”Divided We Eat”, “As the distance between rich and poor continues to grow, the freshest, most nutritious foods have become luxury goods that only some can afford.” (Miller 190). As a consequence, rich people only would have access to healthy food. In America, millions of people are in poverty; suffering from food shortage because prices of food have twice more than in other places making families struggle in order to get healthy
Big Industry Farming Deshavira Harden Adv. Comp 135 6/10/12 Bret Fuller Big Industry Farming The purpose of this paper is to show the relationship between big industry farming takeover of the American Food Supply, has lead to the decline in the American Food Supply. During the past 20 years or so more and more small farms find it harder to make a living, or are simply having to go out of business. This leaves the average American with little to no choice when it comes to what is in their foods, and how the foods they consume are produced. This has taken place because, Big Industry has taken over Farming in America; this is not good because it produces a monopoly, and it also leaves no place for people to buy local food.
In the documentary they showed an example of a family that cant afford healthy food because the price of this foods are too expensive for them to buy with their budget. The father of this family was already having health problems because he was taking medicine for his diabetes he had acquired from eating junk food. Many Americans are suffering from overweight problems because instead of consuming healthy calories they are doing the opposite. In another part of the documentary it showed, how immigrants that are working for these companies were being hunted down by immigration in their own houses. The bad part is that both the meat packaging companies and immigration knew that this people were illegals, but they still kept hiring them and letting them work for a while in there companies.
"Hundreds of millions of people buy fast food every day without giving it much thought, unaware of the subtle and not so subtle ramifications of their purchase" (Pg. 10). The widespread phenomenon of fast food consumption has transformed even the simplest aspects of everyday life. An era when eating out was rare and saved for special occasions is coming to an end, and is quickly being replaced with a sky-rocketing demand for fast food. Over time, the fast food industry has increasingly manipulated consumers and corrupted the stability of the nation, and although the convenience and affordability of fast food has made it widely popular, the disadvantages noticeably exceed the benefits.
SNAP national participation in June 2012 rose to 46,670,373 people, an increase of 173,162 people from May 2012. The problem with this is that while there are some honest people out in the country, the majority of people I see abuse and fraud the system claiming that they need help as much as the next person. Food stamps aren’t around so people can have a field day at the grocery store any time they want. They are around for people who are having a hard time feeding their family! It is not those who like to cheat and take the easy way out of things.
How people like them, earn thousands dollars each year and people as him haven't got any to eat. He also was asking each person how many do they earn and how many do the give to poor people. He as well knew that one of them had done the enviction of the house where he lived and he want to know it. His food arrived, when he opend the door he recived a mortal shot in the head which stainded Michael
One store may not seem like a big difference, but when stores are closing every day because they can't maintain a stable business because of shoplifters it changes a lot for families everywhere. It is estimated that the United States economy loses ten billion dollars due to shoplifting a year. That is around twenty-five
The United States alone throws away nearly half of the food they purchase. Not only is half of what we “needed” to produce tossed in the garbage, it’s becoming very evident the population has entered an obesity