What We Eat

Ever since watching Food Inc. I can't help but think about what is in my food and what I am consuming during every meal. While I was making my chicken breasts for dinner tonight I caught myself wondering where this meat came from; it wasn't a name brand but did that even mean anything? Did this chicken that I was about to consume come from an animal that had been pumped up on steroids and barricaded in a dark room for all its life until a group of workers came to sift through the dead and the surviving to find their useful product? It made me sick to even think about it but at the same time I continued to cook my food and then proceeded to eat it. I convinced myself that even if the chicken had come from some undesirable source, the fact that I cooked it would make everything all ok. I feel like this is the mentality that too many Americans have. We keep making excuses for the food we buy and the food we consume instead of trying to make a difference not only in our world but just merely in our lifestyles. It leads me to wonder how different our culture would be if we could just cut out some of that undesirable food. Would we still be one of the most obese nations? Would the amount of cases of cancer lessen? I can't help but wonder if changing our food habits would in turn change our nation as we know it. Although there have been indifference to the documentary Food Inc I would gladly go out on a limb to say rather you agree with every point he makes or not, that our country is falling into a black hole of food consumption and I'm not sure if there's anyway to truly climb out of it.