2 Chopko
The Beginning of the End
ENG 131
SHAWNA CHOPKO
“Processed foods make up 70% of the US diet” (Warner 2013). Last year I watched the
single most influential documentary I have ever seen. This documentary covered the fast
and easy lifestyles of fast and processed foods. This documentary was named “Food Inc.”
and was released in 2008. There have been many films made like it, but none of which had
the effect that this one did. I want to persuade all of you to kick your habits of eating
processed and fatty foods. Even if it is just making one meal a day at home and dining out
the rest, little by little you can get rid of the terrible chemicals that are being put into your
body and you will feel a whole lot better.
Warner said that there’s an estimated 5,000 different additives that are allowed to go into
our food, but: “The FDA doesn’t actually know how many additives are going into our
food. This is in part because regulations are not only self-regulatory (so the food industry
is doing the testing) but it’s also voluntary,” she said. “The ingredient companies don’t
actually have to tell the FDA about a new ingredient. If they choose to, they can simply
just launch it into the market. The FDA doesn’t know about them, and nobody else really
knows about them.” (Warner, 2013).
Hari Screenivasan also interviewed Melanie Warner about the amount of processed foods