Essay on the Understanding Food System
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Essay on the Understanding Food System
Added on 2020-04-01
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Running head: Understanding food system 1Understanding food systemby Course: Tutor: University:Department: 29th September 2017
Understanding food system 2Understanding food systemModern food systems have had a significant impact on convenience culture. As a result,foods that are less convenient to the consumer are not highly considered as to those that are mostconvenient. This has thus led to less cooking in the homes due to the busy schedule of the familymembers and more purchase of fast foods in shops, restaurants and even supermarkets (Lee &Lin, 2013). Much has resulted with the convenience culture in families. Junk foods have becomethe mode of the day, little or even no foods are cooked in the homes and even taking similar foodtypes for a long time due to limited sources (Slater, 2013). This essay will focus on the adverseeffects and the implications of convenience culture like in health, wellbeing, the economy of thecountry, ethical impacts in the society, work and gender, and concentration of wealth and power(Martinez, 2010).Convenience culture has its greatest impact on health. As far as health is concerned,comfort foods need packing in cans. This food processing will entail removing some nutrientsincluding fiber and vitamins and thus reducing their nutritional value. Some are also geneticallymodified and so dangerous to the health of an individual because they may cause damage tobody organs and can cause gastrointestinal disorders, asserts Klümper & Qaim (2014). In thefood industry, the convenience foods have high calories, trans-fats, saturated sugar, salt, and fats.This makes it hard to control the sugar, salt and fat levels in the body. As a result, many areprone to allergies, and cardiovascular diseases, obese and the immune system is weakened(Schlosser,2012).
Understanding food system 3People may enjoy the shortly lived convenience culture of fast food industries. Thewellbeing of consumers is thus not taken care of because it contributes to major lifestyle diseaseslike cancer, diabetes, stroke, blood pressure and even heart attacks. Through the junk foods andthe processed foods were taken, the long-term effect is not considered. At first, the consumerswill enjoy the soft drinks and other foods that are fast, easier, cheaper and ready to cookVartanian et al. (2011) but little do they forget that they are doing away with the natural eatinghabits and expensing their health in the years to come.Convenient culture also has affected the economy. For instance, some hotels and firmshave reached a situation where they do not take part in the service industry but rather involved inthe manufacturing industry. In as much as there is a defined line of the production process, therestaurants taking the line of manufacturing sector will soon need machines that will make thewhole process fast, hence more profit. The first effect is on those humans working there becausethey will have lost their jobs to the machines. Moreover, the country’s level of income throughthe tax will be reduced because of the tax breaks brought in by the manufacturing industries tothe fast food industries. Also in the economy of the nation, large fast food restaurant chains havedominated in the food supply to various places and as a result making the independent investorsand small business to be less efficient thus affecting their productivity (Belasco, 2014). The ethical impact in the society has been affected by the convenience culture throughfast food industry. This majorly targets on the children in particular through their adverts Elbel,Gyamfi & Kersh, 2011). Looking at the example of McDonald's, their advertisements have anegative impact on children. They have captured the children’s mind with eating toy and makingthem believe that the food cooked by their mothers at home does not taste as good as of clown(Andreyeva, Kelly & Harris, 2011). In other adverts, there is a family, kids and the parents,
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