DaRon Headley J.R
Writing 801/2/3
Mr. Felder/Ms. Michel
5/03
The way food has been kept and prepared for consumption has changed over the years for the benefit of people but in recent years these practices have caused the quality of the food to deteriorate and causes health problems to consumers. The quality of food has deteriorated due to The Food and Drug Administration policy on substances that can be left in food, and products are added to food to increase the bulk and keep the price low also animals are kept in unsanitary factory farms and crops aren't being raised in the right conditions which can also cause outbreaks in bacteria causing health problems to people who eat those foods.
The Food and Drug Administration allows some harmful materials to be left in your food. According to the FDA defect handbook “Average of 4 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams of apple butter” is the amount allowed in apple butter and while it may not seem like a lot but eating higher quantities can cause a high amount of rodent hairs getting into your body. In citrus fruit juices and canned the “Average mold count is 10% or more” so people are eating and drinking mold which can cause health problems if enough of this mold gets into your body and nobody wants mold to get into their body
Products are being added to meats to increase weight and bulk while keeping the price low and some of these products can cause allergic reactions and can be unhealthy for people who consume those fillers. Soy is one product that is added that meat that “Contains high levels of phytic acid, an anti-nutrient that steals and eliminates important vitamins and minerals from the body” so people won’t gain any nutrients from eating food making them still feel hungry and not gaining any nutritional value. Cellulose is another food filler that comes from wood pulp and is used in the production of paper and “Humans can’t digest cellulose. Adding it to food makes for a no-calorie, nonfat filler” so people won’t be gaining anything that has cellulose in it so there’s no point in eating those foods
Food quality has declined due to how animals and crops are raised and kept. Factory farms are large scale industrial farms that raise animals for food and in these farms, the animals are given “hormones and antibiotics to prevent disease and maximize their growth and food output” and exposure to these hormones can cause a health risk and it has been associated by having a higher chance of getting breast cancer. If animals are exposed to high amounts of pollution this can deteriorate the quality of their meat. “Confining so many animals in one place produces much more waste than the surrounding land can handle. As a result, factory farms are associated with various environmental hazards, such as water, land and air pollution” causing that pollution to get into the people who eat those animals.
Outbreaks of bacteria in food can cause health problems to people who eat those foods. There has been recalls of salad greens in recent years due to E.coli outbreaks and these outbreaks occur because “manure from intensively farmed animals gets onto nearby fields and into water supplies” E.coli is a range of bacteria that causes pneumonia, urinary tract infections, and diarrhea. People are warned to not let raw meat touch anything that might go into a person’s mouth because the “The U.S. Department of Agriculture tells consumers to expect that chicken carcasses, for instance, are likely to carry salmonella” and salmonella is a bacteria that causes dehydration, fatigue, fever, or loss of appetite and pain in the abdomen and muscles
The methods in which food, livestock, and crops have been kept, treated, and raised has caused the overall standard of food to drop which defeats the purpose of the changes being made that would increase the quality this quality drop has occurred because of the Food And Drug Administration allowing certain materials to be left inside your food and food companies give their food fillers that make the food look bigger when its actually not. Animals and vegetables not being raised and grown in the right conditions causes deterioration of the food that can then result in outbreaks of bacteria in foods that can then be harmful if eaten
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