In today's society Americans are accustomed to and spoiled by having their food made in a quick time frame while not having the slightest clue where the food is coming from. No, not everyone is going to try to figure out exactly what is in their food. More often than people know, the food they eat day in and day out is not as clean or healthy as they may think. Unfortunately, the healthcare and wellbeing of citizens are sometimes not being taken into consideration, when pertains to food. Of course food companies know humans need food to eat and more will be bought, especially when the cost of the product is low, but is it safe to consume on an everyday basis? Different people will have have their many opinions about that, but one thing for sure is food goes through a lengthy process to be grown and sold, yet not all people have access to it and citizens never really know what they're eating. …show more content…
Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma tells how omnivores have a variety of foods to choose from, whether they are nutritious or not. The lack of steadying culture of food leaves us especially vulnerable to the blandishments of the food industry to exacerbate our anxieties about what to eat, the better to then assuage them with new products (5). That is true indeed. There is an abundance of food in America, so how are the options limited? Plain and simple, Americans have never had a single, strong, stable culinary tradition to guide them (5). The food revolution has also altered. Back in the day, people ate by cooking on fire, hunting with tools, farming, and food preservation. Now, Americans have people cooking for them so they are not as “hands