Final Food Assignment

Corporations propagate the idea that there are small family farms that are living happily with the animals they raise. But in superkmarkets, how do the foods prove that when most of the meat do not even indicate where it is from? Without the knowledge of the foods, Americans are helpless when it comes to food so they turn to experts. Many Americans think that farmer grow the food when really, corporations ruin the food with machines. Corporations hide the ugly truths about food and cover them up with with wonderful images.

Corporations manipulate Americans into thinking that there is nothing wrong with the food they consume so that Americans do not ask questions about where their food come from. This way, when Americans walk into supermarkets, they find the nature products first, then the meats, and then the things that are hard to distinguish what they are made of (Pollan). Notice how supermarkets put the food that are most simplistic so Americans cannot question about them, and then the meats that can somewhat be questioned but are not because Americans are believing what the corporations want them to believe. Then when Americans see the last things, the foods that are hard to distinguish, they do not bother to question what they are because they think that nothing can go wrong in the food. Americans have come to believe that the meat they purchase at the supermarkets were once happy before they end up in the supermarkets. Corporations have hidden the truth and made Americans think that their foods were once humane.

Sometimes, corporations cannot cover everything up. Everyday, there are people who look at their meat and ask themselves where is it coming from. Most of the meat in the supermarkets do not indicate where it is from (Pollan). The fact that these products fail to even provide where they are from shows that corporations are hiding more from the people. If they cannot indicate where they are from, is it okay to question why is it not indicated and more importantly, how it came to be where it is? Corporations just decides to omit the most fundamental ideas to keep Americans ignorant about their food.

Some Americans have trouble deciding what to eat every meal because of the lack of information from corporations. They spend a lot of time thinking about what to eat so to make things easier, they rely on food scientists. Pollan also wrote that people eat depending on their culture and because America is a diverse country, there is no one specific culture to follow when it comes to food. There may be a lot of cultures due to the diversity, but American food do not apply to them. And because there is no culture, Americans follow what food scientists or marketers say. If corporations provided more information about the food being produced, I believe that Americans would not be in constant dilemmas. Americans would be more educated in the food that are around them and the ones they eat so they would not need to follow anyone else but what their body tells them. Therefore, corporations should not be leaving these crucial information about food and should not deceive Americans.

I think the Meatrix II best describes most Americans. Leo the pig arrives at a farm and he sees a beautiful blue sky and a big field with scattered cows. He was so excited to see a woman smiling as she milks what seems to be a healthy cow. Then Moopheus educates him, with the educated glasses, and Leo then sees the truth corporations have been hiding. The skies turned into an ugly color, the river becomes polluted, and there is even a dead cow right by it with a fly hanging around. The cows in the field has disappeared but in the barn, we see that the cows are tightly packed together. The conditions are horrible as we see the heads are droopy and their unhappy moos are weak. Americans, like Leo, think that happy farmers are the ones extracting the food. In reality, the machines that are milking the cows and feeding the calves are the ones creating the food. Corporations take advantage of this misconception so that Americans do not ask about the products so they can make profit off of them. They cover up the machines with the ideal farm and farmer.