Socratic Seminar

In the article Farmer in Chief I learned that America is trying to closed down the farms and putting products that are not real anymore, like the fruit that we eat and the vegetables we put in our food. Now days people prefer eating fast food than taking something to work or school, we want something fast and cheap. What stroke me the most was that even though our health is bad, we still prefer unhealthy food than buying something that is going to make us better. In the article i read that four of the top 10 killers in America today are chronic diseases linked to diet: heart disease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes and cancer.

To stop this from happening we have to go to the doctor, but since the government is charging to much we dont have the money to go, and if we go to the doctor we dont have money to buy healthy food wich means that we have to eat fast food in order to go to the doctor, but what we want is to be healthy, but either way we are not getting there, so we prefer to stick with the fast and cheap.

Also in this article we see that we are using chemical fertilizers when we can use the sun, we are waisting money that we could use in something else, and we are paying farmers to grow corn soybeans and rice, when we could be paying for vegetables and fruits. With the meat we are also doing really bad, we are getting stuff that wasn't feed well and the price goes lower, because the cost to feed this animals was cheap also. But people buy it because they don't know where it came from, they just care for the price.

If we keep doing what we are doing with the food, in a few years we are going to be having wars not for land but for the food that we are letting go by not taking care of it.