Unhealthy Diets In The Film Food, Inc.

Unhealthy diets are the main cause of the many diseases that affect the lives of many Americans. Unhealthy foods had been discussed many times, which has brought up many ideas to remove unhealthy foods from people’s diets’. There are many ideas to remove unhealthy foods from being one of the main sources of food, which is to use taxes which would take the unhealthy food, so unhealthy foods aren’t so accessible. There were many claims to leave those to eat what they want because they believe it's their body, and they should be able to anything they want. Many people see eating unhealthy as a huge problem cause in school unhealthy foods is usually the main course being served at school, so then they have no way of choosing unhealthy foods. People …show more content…
In a movie Food, Inc, it explains how food companies are mistreating animals and workers and that people should not support this business. The movies go on to show how companies like McDonald's are able to make and produce several amounts of unhealthy foods with the use of a few people who are being mistreated. In the scene, the viewer can see the working environment of the workers and how they are used to do one thing yet are paid little for the amount of work that they do since they are mass production unhealthy foods using a conveyor belt system(Food, Inc). Also with a survey that was administered to 100 people in California, 70.8% reported that healthy food is healthy is costly. Helping the movie by explaining that the mass production of unhealthy foods means that it can be sold for cheap and this way still make millions and even billions because the people working aren't getting paid very well. Which helps us interpret the problem with people looking for work those choose to work hard for a low paying job, and since they aren't really earning good money to buy the healthy food they have to buy unhealthy food which helps in the consumption of unhealthy foods. There are people who have to eat unhealthy foods not because they want to because they have to feed a whole family and with little money, they make it's difficult to do …show more content…
Healthy cheap foods would give more options for poorer families that have to rely on fast foods. An article of TIME, by Alice Park, “presentation at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology/Lifestyle meeting, they reported that a 10% drop in prices could prevent 515,000 heart-related deaths and 675,000 heart attacks and strokes by 2035. That amounts to about one more serving of fruits or vegetables a week. If that were increased to one additional serving a day, that could prevent up to 3.5 million deaths from heart disease over just two years”. The solution to healthy problems would be lowered, but not just healthy problems, but also lowering the price of food would seem to companies as lost in money so most companies would look for workers to produce more fruits and vegetables. Since fresh foods would be consumed more than unhealthy foods the unhealthy food companies would see a decrease in purchases so they would increase the prices of unhealthy food to see income but many people would see a waste of money buying unhealthy foods when they could buy healthy foods. So companies would invest in fresh foods increasing in computing which would make companies offer special perks that would benefit employes that would make their hard would worth it. In concluion, a decrease in price would change the diet of American making them healhtier and also could improve other problems American