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The Modern Day Food Industry

The modern food industry rears its growth promoters. The bacteria that live
animals, grows its crops, manufactures in these animals quickly become resistant
and markets its foods with the impetus to to antibiotics. The antibiotics used for
cut costs, produce and sell more animals are similar to those used to
products.To make profit they disregard combat human health problems and it is
animal welfare, promote unhealthy eating becoming more evident that there is a
and advice, contaminate the land and cross-over effect with the bacteria that
livestock with pesticides, herbicides and cause illness in humans. Human bacteria
antibiotics and go against laws of Mother are becoming more resistant to the
Nature with genetic engineering and antibiotics that we use, thus reducing
irradiated foods. Whilst the companies affective treatments.The genetic
involved within the food industry are modification (GM) of food involves the
making fat profits, the majority of artificial insertion of a foreign gene
western societies are also getting fatter into the genetic material of an organism
and unhealthier. Rich western country to create a food substance which is more
such as the Unites States and Britain are economical to product. There are
spending billions on curing degenerated presently two types of GM crops, one to
diseases such as cancer, in fact the cure be resistant to herbicides in order to
rate has not gone down and maybe a kill weeds and the other has been
percentage of the money should be spent engineered to produce toxins to kill
in research on why people are getting pests. In 1996 the first GM crop was
sick in the first place. Such research grown in the US, now three quarters of
would no doubt bring up questions about the worlds GM crops are grown in North
the food we eat and modern day food America. Soya and maize are the main GM
industry practices.Animal welfare is the crops grown in the US and oilseed rape is
price to pay by intensive methods of grown in Canada. Advocates of GM crops
production that modern day food industry claim that GM crops can provide a
uses to increases rates of production. solution to world hunger with higher
Every day 100,000 broiler chickens die yields and are better for the environment
prematurely in UK farms due to the because of their need for less herbicides
methods that they use to increase and pesticides but in reality every
productivity. In the UK 70 per cent of benefit claimed by GM crops has not
the 29 million egg-laying birds are happened but many problems have occurred.
housed in battery cages, 35 million The facts are that GM crops do not
British Turkeys are fattened in cramped increase yields and do not reduce the use
sheds that contain up to 25,000 birds of herbicides. GM and organic crops can
which results in many ailments caused by not co-exist, in Saskatchewan Canada GM
overcrowding and 500,000 sows are kept contamination wiped out the whole organic
indoors in cramped conditions throughout rape seed sector. In the US many people
their lives which causes them to suffer reported allergic reaction to GM Starlink
from muscle weakness and lameness. Modern maize which then had to be recalled with
day dairy cows are bred to produce as the estimated cost of $1
much milk as possible and when either billion.Pesticides are chemical
infertility or ill health set in (partly substances that are used in modern
due by their welfare conditions) they are farming to kill or control pests.
no longer of use and are culled. This is Although there are some naturally
normally only after 5 years.For nearly 50 occurring pesticide used in modern
years now antibiotics have been used in farming the majority are made from
farming as growth promoters and it is now synthetic chemicals. The usage of
coming to light the negative affects that pesticides increased after the Second
it has on human health. In the UK most World War to increase food production. In
intensively reared animals are given the UK it is estimated that over 4.5
antibiotics on a daily basis. This is billion litres of pesticides are used in
mainly as a preventive measure or to farming.
treat illness but some are given as




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