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We all eat food to survive. Food is grown in farms, backyards and greenhouses for plants, or from nature and is shipped to factories and slaughterhouses where it is packaged and then delivered to stores, farmers markets and supermarkets. We are consumers and have choices of various brands that package the food products. Government regulates with food industry standards which are followed by the factories. However, there are too many chemicals and preservatives, and additives to processed and packaged foods that may jeopardize our health. Our bodies sometimes are unable to eliminate the chemicals used to preserve food in cans, boxes, plastics. Politics of making the regulations for health and safety are sometimes in conflict between the manufacturers profits and the consumers health. Marion Nestle writes books and lectures on this publicly to inform consumers about choices we must make to preserve our health based on what food products we consume. The more consumers know about the health risks of certain additives, the better equipped we are to avoid such products until the manufacturers eliminate or change the chemicals to cut out the health risks. Processed foods with popular brand names, especially junk food can cause obesity, heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, cancers, etc. We are brainwashed by commercials and advertisements to buy them and then we become addicted to them because of all the flavour chemical addictives put in. Most of the packagings have no warnings against potential diseases because the chemicals are there to cause junk food addictions in children and adults. The addicting chemicals such as MSG, plus the sugar, salt and fat, can cause our health diseases which cause our deaths eventually. Cigarette makers now have to show warning photos and words on their packages to consumers so that they can make a conscious choice about the health risks of smoking. This should happen on junk food packages with photos of fat people and tooth decay to deter consumers from over consumption. Nestle writes about personal versus social responsibility in food consumption and production. A lot of shoppers should be aware and then beware certain food products. Fresh food is probably safer to eat than processed food because no chemicals are added, which our bodies sometimes find difficult to eliminate. Hopefully, government policies and regulations will value health more than profit so manufacturers will have to change the chemicals they add to those which do not endanger our health. In the meantime, we should take more personal responsibility for our health and choose natural healthy foods rather than processed chemical foods.
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