Food Issues In The United States

Food is something that is tasty, wonderful and needed for human survival, but do many ever wonder how we get the food we eat today? Food isn’t just given on a platter for our bodies to scarf down, it is something that takes a meticulous time to grow, harvest, sell and show up on our plates. This is all thanks to all the farmers and producers in the world. I think food is one out of the many issues that not only the US bumps into, but other countries as well. The relationship that I found in the videos of Nigeria, Kenya, and the United States, were that they all had some type of food issue. Each country has a different perspective and way about the foods used, grown and eaten in the areas that they lived in.
There were patterns in these videos

People drive around in the country sides and see a variety of farms such as dairy, fish, poultry farms…etc They all look like farms described in children’s books with lots of land and many animals. Behind the simple concept of what a farm looks like, it takes a lot of time and commitment to not only make a farm look like a farm, but to have good crops or food raised on the farm. Farms are broken down into big industry farms or small local farms. In this video, it talked about the benefits of small farms and the cons of large production farms. Many of the small farms, as noted from the video, are more organic, community friendly, less chemical usage, better at managing the ecosystem, and better pricing than the bigger farms. Even with these awesome features of small farms, many still doubt the small farm systems. Small farms are bought out by lager farms to get rid of competition and to expand the large production farms. Big farms such as BigAg think small farms are too little and that they aren’t able to produce much, meaning they have little to show for. Since they are a smaller business, they also don’t have the money to buy equipment or machinery. That’s where the large farms come into play because they do have copious amount of money to purchase machinery and equipment to process the foods. Many of the large ag businesses have been known to use worse conditions than smaller farms, and when that occurs, there is more food issues, consumer outrage and also dramatic climate change issues that can erupt. The main issue for large scale farms are that they are very competitive. They want to buy the likes of the consumers as fast as they shut down or buy out the small farm businesses. An easy way to do that is to sell their food at lower prices. It seems a lot nicer to find food that is more cheap but the foods that are cheaper and from large farms are less healthy because of the added