Stuffed And Starved Case Study

Stuffed and Starved – 10

* Unless you have a career within the corporate food system, things are not working out for you * Farmers and workers are dying at the market * Consumers are being fed toxins through processed foods * Children are being harmed by the level of diet-related diseases * Consumers are being brainwashed to purchase cheap calories for the pure joy of eating it (no nutritional value) * The way we eat today causes cruelty to animals, demands high levels of energy and water usage, contributes to global warming, limits our compassion, and is controlled by the most powerful people on the planet. * Worries about what would happen if we ran into a food shortage brought some to the idea of organic farming. * The food system is
* The government has been working on listening to the demands of both the producer and the consumer – mainly due to the vulnerability of a terrorist attack on the food system. * The government feels that terrorists could easily poison the food that is being shipped to the US and easily get away with it due to the abundant amount of illnesses we already have here in the US * The food system has generated many biological horrors such as Mad Cow disease and the Crreutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. The virus of the Mad Cow Disease entered the food system and cycled from one sick cow to millions. * The BSE epidemic caused the USDA to raise its standards of inspection and hygiene. * Other diseases include the H5N1 virus (bird