The Food Around Us

After reading the first couple of chapters in "The Omnivore's Dilemma", a lot of things were brought to my attention. I was completely unaware of the tremendous amounts of corn in legitimately everything we eat. Not only that, but there are even more things we don't realize that are in the foods we eat on a daily basis. I recalled the excerpt from a book called "The Jungle" that I read back in my sophomore year of high school. This book was written a long time ago in efforts to raise awareness of the meat industry and how unhealthy and unethical it was. Silent Spring also reminded me of "The Jungle" because they were both attempting to help people understand the dangers of our world today. Also looking back on reading these chapters, I was brought back to my high school health and nutrition classes. We watched many movies that talked on and on about the gross stuff that is in our food, but one stuck with me in particular. This movie was called Food, Inc. and it described everything that goes into our food, from what is apparent in supermarkets to how poorly they treat the animals when raising them on farms. There is a specific scene that I remember where we see the chickens on a farm for Purdue and they are all shoved in boxes where sickness is spread and dead chickens stay with the ones that are fed to us. Moral of the story, I have never eaten Purdue chicken since. It is incredible the things we don't know about the food we eat and more importantly, what is truly actually in it.