The Industrial Food System.

This blog is a review of my ENG 101 class during a 12 week session. Its been a long an interesting journey and this is because I learned many facts about the American Food System. I learned about the rise of CAFO, the government involvement, the working facility, the labor, the slaughtering of the animals, the combination of fat sugar and salt, animal cruelty, impact of the planet etc. One of the most supprising factor to me is about the combination of fat, sugar and salt in the food. Before this class I knew that salt store water in the body, fat clog the arteries and sugar feed cancer but never have I stop to think about the effect of these elements when combined. As this class goes by I was told to read a book called the End of overeating by doctor David Kessler. In this book he states that the combinition of fat, sugar and salt triggers the brain to act instead of the digestive system, this combinition is similar to the result of cocaine and marihuana. Consumers become dependant on the food with this formula because they are now addictive to it. Can you imagine being addictive to food? All you do is eat and eat and this is exactly what the food companies want because they make the profit and you die early because of cancer, diabetes, stroke. After this class I cut down on the amount of sugar and fat that I use and I even stop eating McDonalds because a meal at this fast food restaurant is a good example of this kind of addictiveness. I have always been a person who dont take orders from anyone and I feel this method is an order for me to go and eat the food so that I can involve in the act of making these companies bigger and stronger. What we need to do is limit our crave for junk food and eat healthy organic food. My final thoughts about it is that if we eat food with high combination of fat, sugar and salt it is just like willingly killing ourselves. NOT EVERYTHING THAT TASTE GOOD DO GOOD or whatever is sweet for your mouth is bitter for your system and that's the way it was meant to be.