Summary Of The War On Big Food

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Food is an important part of the human ‘s life. From the beginning of the human and animal life food has been like petrol for them. Food what gives power and without it, there’s no life. People have always benefited from the food and they will continue eating/ drinking/ using it till they die. The modern business world showed that demands always result in the similar supply. The demand in the food caused the growth in the food products and in the number of companies providing food product for people. It’s common knowledge that quantity does not always imply quality. As the industry, they always make money because people will buy food, even during a hard major money-based problem. On this day, people just care about the price and the company’s …show more content…

Companies who are in the field of competition they don’t really care about human health. Most of the campiness are in the “fight-filed” of the food because every company wants to attracts the people to it in any ways. Each company wants to make the cheapest food to sell for the people. Companies knows that people are interesting in the price of the product more than quality, so companies take advantage of people and wasted their money and their health. What happens now between the companies is like rice. The article “ The War On Big Food” by Beth Kowitt explains who the companies live in the big war competing over the people. “More and more shoppers are opting for fresh and organic, and that is costing major packaged-food companies some serious market share.”(Kowitt) in this quote, the author explains the relationship between companies the sell food and people who eat it is symmetrical relationship if one increase the other one should increase too. Economic plays a major role in this competition because the more people will buy this cheap food the companies will do more of it and if the companies did more of it that means they will have more money and more money will increase the …show more content…

People from low income or those who can’t afford buying organic “fresh” food they forced to eat the fast food “ cheap food.” The people should do something to stop this “competition” because that’s unhealthy for them and will cause them a lot of problems as the days goes on. People don’t know what happened in their food before they eating it. In other words, a person knows what happened in their food before they eating it but they pretend to not to know it because they don’t know what to do about it. A restaurant as McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s can causes serious health problems. In 2004, a documentary called Super Sized Me, followed Morgan Spurlock as he eats McDonald’s for the whole month. In this month, he gained over 70Ib, experiences a heavy mood swings, had a lot of hearth issues. He also has stress, depression, and headaches, stomachaches, which are relieved when another McDonald’s meal is consumed. Morgan gained 9.5Ib in his first five days. It took fourteen months to work off all the weight gained from this meal experiments. Weight wasn’t the only thing gained from these 30 days, Morgan got a lot of inside scoops on how McDonald’s food is made, cooked and prepared. It showed all of the added chemicals that stop things from rottin, fats and added calories in the meat and French Fries and how they can pile up in your body over time. It also shows the health problems such as clogged blood vessels from the