Beware The Fast Food Nation's Calorie-Industrial Complex Summary
The food industry produces a substantial amount of food every year to feed the hungry American people, but at the cost of quality and health. While the Industrial food chain may not be the healthiest or most efficient chain, it provides appetizing food to all Americans for an affordable price. When choosing the finest food chain for America, the modern industrial powerhouse of food production is a choice to be considered.
Joel Salatin states, “Conscientious farmers need to do a better job explaining their proven, cutting-edge methods.” The author states that calling something old-fashioned might attract tourists, and people interested in antiquities. By doing so, it disbands meaning from this phrase, making it purely a marketing tool. According to the author, a majority of Americans who come from a simpler time, would not want to go without electricity or modern transport, because they know that there is no way to make a sustainable food chain without outside help (Salatin, Pg. 3). To draw a close, farmers need to up the ante and elaborate on their methods to the public.
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Rude states that since the 1920s, low calorie “health food” has been favorable and has dominated the American food market. However, these terms would soon become a mere marketing tactic to get a specific product to stand out from someone else’s, as terms like “free-range” and “organic” could be thrown around with no restrictions placed upon the companies using these marketing tools. This system of industrial farming also hurt the American people, as a more industrial farming system created, and continues to make fewer jobs for low-income Americans. Hence, the industry can produce massive amounts of food very quickly, but at a steep
Joel Salatin states, “Conscientious farmers need to do a better job explaining their proven, cutting-edge methods.” The author states that calling something old-fashioned might attract tourists, and people interested in antiquities. By doing so, it disbands meaning from this phrase, making it purely a marketing tool. According to the author, a majority of Americans who come from a simpler time, would not want to go without electricity or modern transport, because they know that there is no way to make a sustainable food chain without outside help (Salatin, Pg. 3). To draw a close, farmers need to up the ante and elaborate on their methods to the public.
To change perspectives, the article “Beware the Fast Food Nation's Calorie-Industrial Complex” is shaming the …show more content…
Rude states that since the 1920s, low calorie “health food” has been favorable and has dominated the American food market. However, these terms would soon become a mere marketing tactic to get a specific product to stand out from someone else’s, as terms like “free-range” and “organic” could be thrown around with no restrictions placed upon the companies using these marketing tools. This system of industrial farming also hurt the American people, as a more industrial farming system created, and continues to make fewer jobs for low-income Americans. Hence, the industry can produce massive amounts of food very quickly, but at a steep