Food Inc. Pages 3-27 and 41-64

The book "Fast Food Nation" came to be when author Eric Schlosser was doing an article for the Atlantic Monthly in the mid 1990's. The article was supposed to be on the immigrants that were invasive at the time and finding work in the field's of California's agriculture, when it hit him that the reality of how our food is made wasn't what he had thought it was. It is well known that in order for people to stay healthy, they needed to focus more on vegetables, fruits, and nuts as their source of daily intake. In order to beat the influences that fast food has on our society today, we must educate the young about what foods are healthy in our school systems. Schools need to start serving healthier foods. It is said that if we don't change our eating habits, obesity could be the next leading cause of death next to smoking. Food Inc. states that we are what we consume and we are what that consumes. Cattle are given low doses of growth hormones and antibiotics into their feed in order to stay disease free. We put these antibiotics into the feed because of the increase of many diseases that has occurred in food history. Diseases such as mad cow, which is found in cattles nervous system, has been found 3 times since December of 2003. Other diseases such as ecoli is found in cattle and other foods when cattle is fed corn or soybeans instead of hay. Since factory farmers strive to increase the annual output of product, they are able to do this by feeding them these hormones and antibiotics. Because the industrial food industry is interconnection with the people who make laws and regulations on food, the regulation policies tend to be on the low end of the spectrum.
People must demand where their food comes from and organically grown foods are a better choice when it comes to how your food is grown. There are three different classifications when you see "organic" in the stores. The first classification is the labeling, "100% organic" which is self explanatory. The second classification is "organic" which means 95% or more of the ingredients from start to store shelves use organic products. Finally, "made with organic" entails that 70% or more of the product uses organics up to the point its put on store shelves. There are many ways that food production practices are abused. These practices include battery cages, fast growth of birds, forced feeding for foie gras, gestation crates and veal crates, long distance transportation, and electric stunning of birds.
This section of the book introduces the reader to the realities of the food production industry. It gives the reader solid facts about how our food is more of an assembly line than growing food. It seems that the companies producing our food is more worried about how much money they gross rather than the quality of the food that is fed to our country. The way can control the people in the government on the inside is kind of scary because all they do is throw the people with higher authorities some money and they will eventually get what they want, lower quality standards.