It is simple really they can open their own chicken coop. By doing this they will be able to keep their cost of poultry down and ultimately make more profit. Another benefit to Chick-fil-A opening their own chicken coop is that they would be better able to control the avian flu. The avian flu is spread through contaminated water and dirty living conditions. By keeping the chickens living conditions in immaculate condition they can better control this disease.
As said by Manoj in an article Ethical and Environmental Reasons for being a Vegetarian, each year 90% of the grain produced in America is used for feeding the livestock such as cows, pigs, lambs and chicken. Every sixteen pounds of grain only gives us one pound of beef. That grain can be used to create bread, cereal, and other food products that can be used to help feed the nation and the nations poor. Along with this, a diet of grains, vegetables and beans will support about 20% more people than a diet of meat will. If we primarily produce vegetables and grains, this will drive down prices, making the food cheaper and more attainable to the nations poor and the planet would be about to support the population.
Richard Lobb, a part of the National Chicken Council stated, “What these systems of intensive production accomplishes, is to produce a lot of food, on a small amount of land, at an affordable price. Can anyone explain to tell me what is wrong with that?” Mr. Lobb makes a point that the food industry can do what they want and get away with it because the national demand of food. According to Food, Inc. in 1970, six companies produced 20% to 25% of the meat consumed in the U.S., today, four companies produce 80% of the meat. Where there used to be thousands of slaughterhouses in the country, today there are 13. One problem coming from this is that when something goes wrong, like contamination or foodborne illnesses, it affects enormous amounts of food.
coli. People where traveling hundreds of miles to buy beef, pork and chicken from him because his food was healthier than the meat from a big corporation. Organic foods where also involve in this part of the video. It stated that more people are switching to organic foods every year by twenty percent annually. Even though it more expensive it is healthier for our bodies.
The government or other organization that are concerned should and need to develop new set of policies that don’t subsidize over production and over eating. Pollan argues that corn is being used as substitutes for all other foods. This is why foods at fast-food outlets are cheap, because they are already paid for. “Farmers in the United States have managed to produce 500 additional calories per person every day” (Pollan-20th Paragraph) Pollan gives out a tone between formal and informal towards his audience. With historical references mixed with a conversational tone.
First, a National Policy on food can save millions of Americans residents by investing resource to guarantee that food marketing sets children up for healthful lives by instilling in them a habit of eating real food because of unnatural diseases that attack the body are causing many lives and sickness. Bittman et al states, “Today’s children are expected to live shorter lives than their parents. In a large part, this is because a third of these children will develop Type 2 diabetes, formally rare in children and a preventable disease that reduces life expectancy by several years” (1). The consumption of high fructose corn syrup is affecting our health. Corn syrup has a high in sugar, which will develop into Type 2 diabetes within time.
As for the growing end of the spectrum, Pollan then goes on to say that “It (corn) had to adapt itself not just to humans but to their machines” (30). Farmers eventually found inventive ways to mass produce this crop. Planting the crops in such a close proximity created not just more space, but also caused the plants to grow upward. This meant that it was easier for machines to come in and extract the corn, so this ushered in the use of fossil fuel. These machines were created not just to cultivate the land, but to also apply large quantities of chemicals to the crops to prevent insect infestations.
Is it worth it to search for a longer time to get the food that you want? “Further, whereas some areas might find it fairly easy to eat locally (in Washington State, for example, I’m less than fifty miles from industrial quantities of fresh produce, corn, wheat, beef, and milk), people in other parts of the country and the world would have to look farther afield.”. It may be a problem to search for the foods that you want because they may be in unusual areas that you may have never been (or wanted to go) before. You will just have to get over this fact if you want to become a locavore. As you can see, there are many things you must take into account if you want to make the choice to become a locavore.
That’s why Meat Lovers across the world should join the food movement and eat less meat. The incentives are clear: suppressing our appetite for the juicy good stuff one day a week could help improve the environment, raise the quality of our meat while managing sustainability, and above all, support good health and well-being. “Meatless Monday addresses the prevalence of preventable illnesses associated with excessive meat consumption. With the average American eating as much as 75 more pounds of meat each year than in generations past, our message of “one day a week, cut out meat” is a way for individuals to do something good for themselves and for the planet.” (“History”).
HFCS could help soda companies rich so the employees may have better salary, or HFCS could make us sick, cause physical disorders if we have too much of it. In my opinion, we could enjoy the benefits that HFCS brings to us as long as we control our limit line of intaking it and the companies use the non-mercury way to