“This corn-fed meat is demonstrably less healthy for us, since
it contains more saturated fat and less omega-3 fatty acids than the meat of
animals fed grass.” Pg. 75
I liked this quote because it had a
lot of meaning to everything that was explained throughout the book, even
though it talks about the meat and why it’s bad, there is also the part where
it says that it’s cheaper and that caught my attention. It makes sense in the
way that I see why people choose to eat these foods. The reason for feeding
cows corn is a way so they can make more money and sell the meat for lesser
prices at the store. It’s always about business and how to make more profit
over spending less than what the value of the item is really worth. I think
that the companies who do these types of things only think about their benefits
and how they have a say in what we eat and can afford considering that now a
days it’s cheaper to get processed foods that fill you up, then the organic
foods that cost more and are harder to find. The economic situation is
something that we are all suffering with having to make cuts and rank the
prices higher in order to gain business, but that just proves that it is pushing
us to buy cheaper, faster, and unhealthy meals to feed our family, but it all
comes with a price that is likely to make us feel happy at the moment but later
on suffer the consequences. My reaction to the meaning of this quote that I chose
in my personal experience has been to grow up with these kinds of foods and
seeing them wherever I go. Sometimes I wonder how there could be so many fast
food restaurants that make billions upon billions of dollars every day just by
having people consume their processed burgers, and meat, and anything else that
might contain some product that has been grown “modernly”. I sometimes want to
think that people have the choice to live a life where they can choose what to
eat and for it to be healthy for them as well. But, there’s always that one obstacle
that makes that impossible to some of us like me and my family. I consider my
family as middle class, and I can totally relate to this in a sense that makes
me mad because my natural reaction towards the processed foods is that I love
them and they taste so delicious, but when I really think about what is in my
meat I get frustrated and see that if I compare the prices against processed
foods and organic foods, the organic foods should be cheaper shouldn’t they? I
have never got this comparison in full understanding.
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