Food Production Issues
For this ethical issue we have been discussing how the big agriculture and packaged foods affect our society. I feel there are many factors that contribute to how this culture has gone and gotten so big. I argue that the type of society that we live in has allowed for this growth and efficiency in the production of our food.
Big population and big agriculture is the first reason that I will discuss. To sustain the populace of just this country let alone the world requires mass produced foods. The Food production for this country has gotten to be fast and efficient because the land and work force to produce natural, and community driven grown foods is more than this country want to handle. If you look at the population spread over the country you’ll see that the largest of populations are in cities and high industrial areas. They country has trade healthy food for businesses in industrial area. To supply these groups with food you have to grow and make foods that can be shipped to these areas. Shipping foods require you to add preservatives or time the growth of the croups to supply these areas. This poses a problem for the larger communities if there comes a time that foods can’t be shipped.
Lazy cultures have allowed for this kind of food production to continue to grow. People have been trying to make a fortune in this country since it began and as the opportunity has grown to make money the lack of interest in their health has diminished. As people became more specific in their trades or passions it has left few to make advancements in producing foods for the masses, not interested in growing it them selves. When a society is so driven in make a profit they tend to rely on someone to feed them. When that same person trying to feed everybody is also trying to make a profit the quality and quantity of foods will be dictated by that business. That’s why so much of the food is prepackaged and has a poor nutritional value.
Society has also made it a trend to go out and spoil ones self with fancy dinners or a quick bite mid day. If it was cool and easy to go out to you r garden or pasture and get your food everybody would be doing it, and striving to do it. We have become so focused on status that we have traded health for cultural status. If kids these days were more interested on how to irrigate a garden instead of irrigating their minds with video games, there might be a change in the way we view our food production industry in the future. It is just too easy to go and get fast food and get back to those trendy things that make you feel good about yourself.
Ultimately I see no change in the future of food production even with the big green trend and the emphasis of global warming. People just don’t care that much about how their food consumption is affect the future generations of this plant, or their fellow creatures. I think in the long run you are going to see a large number of the population dying off due to starvation, and only the wealth will survive, or those that know how to get their own food. The numbers on people that I think could really survive a mass food loss is small. That is probably a good thing for the planet, Mother Nature always gets through those problem times that the animals that inhabit her don’t. So, with the current populations, and focus on cultural status the cheap and easy way for food production is going to continue down the same path as it has been going.
Big population and big agriculture is the first reason that I will discuss. To sustain the populace of just this country let alone the world requires mass produced foods. The Food production for this country has gotten to be fast and efficient because the land and work force to produce natural, and community driven grown foods is more than this country want to handle. If you look at the population spread over the country you’ll see that the largest of populations are in cities and high industrial areas. They country has trade healthy food for businesses in industrial area. To supply these groups with food you have to grow and make foods that can be shipped to these areas. Shipping foods require you to add preservatives or time the growth of the croups to supply these areas. This poses a problem for the larger communities if there comes a time that foods can’t be shipped.
Lazy cultures have allowed for this kind of food production to continue to grow. People have been trying to make a fortune in this country since it began and as the opportunity has grown to make money the lack of interest in their health has diminished. As people became more specific in their trades or passions it has left few to make advancements in producing foods for the masses, not interested in growing it them selves. When a society is so driven in make a profit they tend to rely on someone to feed them. When that same person trying to feed everybody is also trying to make a profit the quality and quantity of foods will be dictated by that business. That’s why so much of the food is prepackaged and has a poor nutritional value.
Society has also made it a trend to go out and spoil ones self with fancy dinners or a quick bite mid day. If it was cool and easy to go out to you r garden or pasture and get your food everybody would be doing it, and striving to do it. We have become so focused on status that we have traded health for cultural status. If kids these days were more interested on how to irrigate a garden instead of irrigating their minds with video games, there might be a change in the way we view our food production industry in the future. It is just too easy to go and get fast food and get back to those trendy things that make you feel good about yourself.
Ultimately I see no change in the future of food production even with the big green trend and the emphasis of global warming. People just don’t care that much about how their food consumption is affect the future generations of this plant, or their fellow creatures. I think in the long run you are going to see a large number of the population dying off due to starvation, and only the wealth will survive, or those that know how to get their own food. The numbers on people that I think could really survive a mass food loss is small. That is probably a good thing for the planet, Mother Nature always gets through those problem times that the animals that inhabit her don’t. So, with the current populations, and focus on cultural status the cheap and easy way for food production is going to continue down the same path as it has been going.
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