In the excerpt “Between Obesity and Hunger: The Capitalist Food Industry,” Robert Albritton elaborates on how the quality of the food industry has dwindled throughout the years and has shifted to be more about profit then about meeting the needs of the consumers. The motive behind this article is mainly to expand on the idea that despite diet being the most important factor in regards to human health there are still a large number of people that experience endless hunger while there are those that over eat without ever receiving the proper nutrients. Many of his examples are associated with the United States because as a country it has played a large role in shaping the global food system and is home to many of the companies that focus solely …show more content…
Instead there is a new focus on finding innovations, such as factory farming, to produce the most food in the quickest and most profitable way possible. Along with this method there is an added increase in subsidies for production that produces large yields. Simply meaning that “ the larger the farm and the higher the yield, the larger became the subsidy,” and bigger farms become the most profitable (Albritton 2013, para. 2). Albritton (2013) continues by adding that as a result of this most modern day farming is dependent on fossil fuels and government aid. If the rest of the world farmed the same way that the United States farms then the environment would be filled with even more toxins (para. 5). In giving examples to demonstrate how the food industry is solely focused on making profit. Albritton states that the main focus of many businesses is to find the product that most people crave while having it be reasonably priced for the company The biggest area of concern that Robert Albritton tries to express in the article is that due to the focus on profit there is a lack of food that is both plentiful and nutritious. This lack of food availability and the lack of nutrients is having a negative affect on society as seen by the large increase of illnesses associated with lack of nourishment (Albritton