An unflattering look inide America's corporate controlled food industry. The current method of raw f...
An unflattering look inide America's corporate controlled food industry.
The current method of raw food production is largely a respone to the growth of the fast food industry since the 1950s. The production of food overall has more drastically changed since that time than the several thousand year prior. Controlled primarily by a handful of multinational corporation, the global food production business - with an emphasis on the business - has as its unwritten goals production of large quantities of food at low direct inputs (most often subsidized) resulting in enormous profits, which in turn results in greater control of the global supply of food sources within these few companies. Health and safety (of the food itself, of the animals produced themselves, of the worker on the assembly lines, and of the conumer actually eating the food) are often overlooked by the companies, and are often overlooked by government in an effort to provide cheap food regardless of these negative conequences. Many of the changes are based on advancements in science and ...
