Bluefin Tuna Analysis

The issues surrounding food productions in america are overproductions and surplus, chemicals contaminating produce and government intervention that affect consumers’ health in ways such as contributing to the increase of obesity, death due to tainted food, and tortured animals Michael pollan in his article “When a Crop Becomes King” addresses the issue of government subsidies and the widespread use of corn in american diet. Additionally, Robert Kenners documentary Food inc. he talks about how the government funds the food industries. Finally, is the video “Bluefin Tuna,” narrated by Sasha Issenberg they talk about the overuse of the bluefin tuna fish and how they are going extinct because how many are being eaten which can relate to much more that just the fish. I agree that industrial farming pesticides processed foods threatens the human race and the farm/ocean animals because first off it is unhealthy for the human race to eat the food with all these pesticides, also it endangers and causes abuse to the animals being used for Michael Pollan states

We now have a taste for bluefin tuna for our sushi and we are overfishing the ocean to acquire more of these fish. Back in the day nobody wanted bluefin tuna because it was oily and faty they used it as cat food, But because the united states steak and they wanted it to. So what they did was started eating bluefin tuna one of the most expensive tunas out there, on had even gone for over a million dollars they have markets such as Tsukiji market in japan. But even though people seem to all like this fish there are some chefs who oppose the overfishing of bluefin, such as Providence co-owner, Michael Cimarusti, He makes the same type of food and its taste somewhat the same from bluefin but it's not bluefin it's totally different