Reflection essay

Reflection Essay

Sustainability in food production means that a company can keep making a product and shipping it out to stores without any issues such as more or less demand or money. This really relies on how the farmer’s fields are doing and the cost of all the things that go into making the base for the food. Also, it relies heavily on gas prices for these big ships and trucks to take this food out to the markets that will be selling them. In order for any company’s food production to remain stable and not dip down into the unstable region the makers of the food would need to keep the cycle of the food flowing at the same rate. His means that there needs to be food shipped at all times so that they can meet the demands of the buyers and sellers. It also helps if the makers of the food know if the consumers like what they’re getting and if they need to take away or modify a product. They have to make sure that one their food is safe, two they are beating their competitor’s prices and three that it completely satisfies the want of the consumer so they are more likely to continue to sell their product. A smart choice for me as a smart consumer would be to go organic but the problem I see with it and so do many other people is that organic food is expensive because it’s harder and more expensive to make then big corporations making the same thing but non organically. I would like to go organic I think it would help out our eco system and also help my body be more healthy. I think that organic food would be smarter for everyone to eat and a lot of people would if they had the money. What doesn’t seem right to me and surprised me is that the less healthy food like McDonalds and other fast food is cheaper than the healthy food like fruits and vegetables. It’s almost like we as a country are encouraging the bad habits to our citizens and our trying to make people fat. Why I used to ask is this fatty, non nutritional food less expensive well it’s because of how each are made. This fatty food that most of America loves does seem more appetizing then an apple or banana and it’s also cheaper. This is because the food that is bad for you can be mass produced for a cheaper price and in shorter time then it takes to grow fruits and vegetables. There are large farms where cows are fed corn to make them larger so they can get more meet out of them quicker. Now this doesn’t seem as right but its how it’s done now a days and I don’t like it. Cows should be eating grass that’s how they were made to eat grass not corn.  I think that if people where more aware that they weren’t eating what they thought they were eating they would go organic. They wouldn’t try to save that extra buck they would go to eat the things that were made naturally not things that were made in a lab. Something that really surprised me is the red tomatoes that we all know aren’t red when they are shipped here. Someone picks them in another country then they are green and ships them with a chemical injected into them and when they get here they are nice and red. You’re eating half tomato half chemical that’s not right. There are some real problems with the way meat is made today non- organically. In many farms out west cows stand knee deep in their own waste before they get slaughtered. This contaminates that cow and everything that cow touches including other cows. This is a scary thought to me I really don’t want to be eaten a steak that has been contaminated with waste. It kind of makes me worried about what else I don’t know about my food. Something that really needs to be taken into consideration is the diseases that are being spread throughout this “better” or faster way to produce food. There are 61 deaths from E-coli annually and yet we can’t even speak out against these corporations without the chance of being sued. It’s just wrong that someone can get sued just for saying that they don’t like a certain brand of food from any type of company. With more chemicals and hormones and other growth effecting drugs added to these animals this increases room for disease. Corn is cheaper to feed cows but it’s also more risky because when a cow eats corn instead of the natural grass it’s suppose to it has a greater risk to contain a disease in that cow and everything that cow touches. After my recent findings on these new ways to make food, I would definitely choose to make changes in my diet. Instead of eating that double cheese burger from mc Donald’s that tastes so good maybe I’ll go for something organic that won’t hurt my body in the long run. Because even though that double cheese burger taste really good right then my body is going to pay for it later. Also, I would much rather drink organic milk than the whole milk with growth hormones in it. Who wants to drink milk with a bunch of things added to it? I would much rather drink the milk that came straight from the cow. It’s healthier and I know that cow was treated right and grown up how a cow was meant to be grown with grass. To think that if you asked me if I would rather eat organic a month ago I probably would have said no. But now that I’ve learned about these things done to the animals the bad conditions they live in and the things done to the food I definitely would.