Flowers Need Healthy Food

“Human health can also be impacted by too much food or food of the wrong kind, resulting in obesity and increased risk of disease.” (Robertson, 2014.)

McDonald's first menu.  (http://flashbak.com/you-deserve-a-break-today-1960s-1980s-mcdonalds-history-in-advertising-29820/)

Every time I hear something like that it makes me think of how back in the early 1900s back when McDonalds, Burger King, and my favorite Wendy’s was first established (1940,1954, 1964). I love how I hear how older people talk about how “back in their day” they only had small and large and the large was the size the medium nowadays or how they say the small drinks are their larges. All in all the fast food restaurants are not what they use to be with portion sizes getting bigger as we go on through out the ages which is calling our health as a whole society to fail. Either we need to find figure out a way to change how we eat completely or make it less desirable to each such things or a regular basis.

The part that shocked me was the part when they pointed out how the 100s of Mexican farmers were displaced because they found a cheaper way to farm corn. (Food Inc., 2008.)

Mexican corn farmers on protesting because they were let go.  (https://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/4448)

The fact that people were put out of a job just because they found a cheaper way of producing corn surprised me. It also confused me because I hear so much talk about how we do not have enough jobs in America for all the people that live. So for them to take away jobs from people who already have some to make hormone grown vegetables that are not all that good.  If we were to make sure our food stays safe and organic we could hire more people for the job and it would be a win-win for all. Like Joel Salatin said “ We are successful of hitting the bull’s eye on the wrong target.” Which I took to mean we are worried about the wrong things like the price of much we are going to have to pay to make the for rather than if it good or not.

The part that shocked me was the part when farmers explained how the numbers of their profession dwindled through out the years. (Food Inc., 2008.)

A seed cleaner machine.  (http://www.benchindustries.com/mobile-grain-seed-cleaners/)

A machine took out the job of seed cleaner in more than one state. Moe Parr explains that there are only six seed cleaners left in the state of Indiana they used to have three in every county maybe more. Machines that have been around for a few centuries and did not originally plan on taking over someone’s job are being improved and then let loose into the world to slowly displace men. As well as put them on the street without anything to fall back on or any job offers that would be available to them because so many jobs are given to machines these days. Hopefully this does not cost us the safety of how healthy our food is supposed to be.