1st DRAFT Disconnection From Food to Its Eater

Jesse Russell 3/30/2007
Food Argon
Industrial Food Paper


Where did you last meal come from? What was is made out of? Chances are you are like most Americans, who have no idea, today Americas food corporations are extremely industrialized. It is difficult for one to understand where their meals come from unless they are locally grown nearby or on your own. Fast food is the main contributor to this problem as well as mass produced foods. Presently there is a big dissconnection between the food and its eaters.
The IFS (Industrial Food System), today has surrounded the world mainly in the United States, McDonalds alone operates over 31,000 restaraunts worldwide. Fast food and mass produced food are two parts of the IFS, they work by the art of persuasiveness and convenience. There are examples of industrial food everywhere, in the super market, in your fridge, and anywhere you go on the road or by foot. The McDonalds website even has what is called a “McDonalds Trip Planner”, type in your starting street address and your destination and they will give you a map of every McDonalds on your route. Seeing the IFS in some way shape or form is impossible living in our industrialized world of today.


It's based on making as much money as possible and not considering the consequences of how these monopolies are getting there. Meat-Packing factories have the conveyor belt moving at a top speed, where it is almost impossible for a worker to do a good job and cleaning, cutting and organizing the meat. Often Big corporations, factories and companies are involved in the all the reasons we don't know where the food on our plates comes from. My experience with industrial food has been constant my whole life. Living in The United States and especially in Manhattan, I have grown up in an industrialized world, full of industrial things including foods.