Food Inc. Essay

Jake Strasilla

11/16/12

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Food Inc.

Healthy food should never be too expensive to afford. Currently, unhealthy foods such as fast food burgers are being sold cheaper than healthy vegetables and fruits. This is unacceptable because people with a low income cannot afford to buy healthy foods, Americans find it easier to eat unhealthy foods then healthy foods, and people are beginning to have more health problems than usual.
First, people with a low income cannot afford to buy healthy foods. People who are barely making enough money to get by do not have much money to spend. Unhealthy foods can be bought from fast food restaurants for as little as a dollar making that the go to place to buy foods. Because of this, people with smaller incomes have been forced into an unhealthy eating habit. If this is not stopped, America will become an even more obese society than it already is.
Secondly, Americans are finding it easier to buy fast food and other extremely unhealthy foods for the human body because of its taste and price. Because fast food is often very delicious, people are constantly eating at fast food chains and other unhealthy restaurants. This would not be such a large problem if people would limit themselves to about a hamburger or pizza, or whatever food it is to one a week. Furthermore, the price of greasy, fat filled, heart attack causing hamburgers is extremely low. You may think this is a good thing, but it makes buying healthy foods so much harder. When choosing between five unhealthy burger meals or one healthy meal people tend to go with unhealthy meals. So, if this continues, this country will be very negatively affected.
Some critics may say that people are happier not being able to access the food needed to stay healthy. However, without the ability to access healthy foods, people have gotten into unhealthy eating habits and health conditions are on the high. Such terrible eating habits have resulted in people having heart conditions, diabetes, food poisoning, and some have even suffered and died from e coli. People are not happy because they are forced to eat the disgusting foods produced by power hungry companies. They just don’t have a choice.
Healthy foods should be more accessible because without them people with low incomes can not afford to maintain healthy eating habits, Americans find it easier to acquire unhealthy foods, and people are beginning to have more health problems than ever before. Stop companies from making healthy foods too expensive before it is too late.