When Unhealthy Wins

At first, when reading "The Pleasures of Eating" by Wendell Berry, I thought his ideas were repetitive but very useful. My first thought was "Wow, another article telling us to eat better." Then I realized the article wasn't telling us to eat better, but it was making us aware of the background of our food. The behind the scenes. How it was a made, who made it, and what the source went through. To continue the idea of behind the scenes, we watched Food, Inc. in class. The documentary showed us everything about the food industry: the treatment the food source went through, the way the businesses outsold and treated smaller farmers unfairly, and the overall unhealthiness of it. Then I started thinking (typical after watching this movie) that it isn't fair. This is not how our food industry should be. Yet, how can we change it? This form of the food production is cheaper, easier, and conveniently faster for not only the producers, but the consumers as well. The benefits out weight the negative aspects (unhealthiness). The main benefit of this type of food production is that it gets to the consumer faster and cheaper. It's a proven fact that the 'unhealthier' food is way cheaper than the organic, healthy food. Soda vs water is a perfect example. All in all, I think that yes, that this food industry and the way our food is produced is wrong and unhealthy in many ways, but I don't predict it changing any time soon. I think the mass of people enjoy and benefit from this form of food production much more than those who don't. So, in this case, the unhealthy teams wins.