Faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper

Do you know where your food comes from? Do you know how and by what means it is produced? If you don't, do you even want to? This past week we watched the film Food Inc. and I STRONGLY encourage everyone to watch it. Yes, some of it will shock you and probably make you not want to eat (it would probably be wise not to eat during the film), but when finished, it does provoke some amazing conversation between all ages.
47,000 products are in your local supermarket on average.
The human diet has changed more in the last 50 years than the previous 10,000.
The American supermarket has nearly no seasons.
We don't know where our meat is coming from as now there are only 13 meat producing factories in the entire United States. The majority of chickens in America are genetically modified and corn fed so they can become fatter faster, but at the same time, have a larger breast, as that is the part people want to eat.
Cows are corn fed and restricted movement so they too can follow in the chicken's footsteps. Fatter faster = more money in the producer's wallets. These cows being so close together are usually 6 inches deep in there own fecal matter, the perfect breeding ground for Ecoli. You think that this isn't a big deal because of course YOUR hamburger has only 1 cow's meat in it. WRONG. Think again. Try up to 1,000 cows are in the one hamburger. So the chance of 1 in 1000 having Ecoli is now significantly greater. If a human gets Ecoli poisoning it is most usually fatal. Unfortunately, Ecoli outbreaks are common in America. Something that is so easily solved if the care for these cows was improved and sanitation was taken a little more into account and things were fresh, pesticide free, and organic. Ecoli now breaks out in tomatoes, spinach, leafy greens and meats. Ecoli O157H7. A killer of lives. This Ecoli fatally kills your small and large intestine, and sweeps through the nation when Ecoli outbreaks occur. Something so preventable, but so difficult at the same time. Because companies do try to make reforms, prices go up and people don't want to spend $6.99/lb on ground beef when they can buy a BigMac on the dollar menu. Instead of making the healthy option the one people want, society and supply and demand drive them toward the bad calorie rich option. We are doing this to each other, practically killing each other through obesity rates that are sky rocketing and heart attacks, myocardial infarctions being the #1 killer of people in the United States, a common consequence of obesity. So what are you going to do? Not only for yourself, but for those around you, your family, and children. Think, how can you make a difference, because, there is no such thing as small change.