When it comes to our daily food intake, we are greeted by innocent looking supermarkets claiming “fresh choices”; as well as fast food restaurants at every corner providing “100 percent genuine beef.” We go about our lives without ever stopping to think ― where exactly does our food even come from? Is our food harming the environment? Why is our health getting worse? Like million of Americans today; little do they know about the true food industry and the dangers it has provided. Our environment and our health is facing a crisis due to the food industry. It’s time we learn the truth, and the possible solutions to fix these issues.

The amount effort being made to create process food is not only harming the environment, but us as well. In the “Carnivore’s Dilemma” (2010) Nicolette Hahn Niman tells us that the studies show only that the prevailing methods of producing meat - that is, crowding animals together in factory farms, storing their waste in giant lagoons and cutting down forest to grow crops to feed them - cause substantial greenhouse gases (169). Knowing that 5 percent of the greenhouse gases are produced by …show more content…
While Nicolette leans more towards how food production harms the environment and Joel leans towards gaining food independence, together the actions we must take will benefit each side. As Nicolette tell us in the “Carnivore's Dilemma” (2010), all eaters can lower their global warming contribution by following these simple rules: avoid processed foods and those from industrialized farms; reduce food waste; and buy local and in season (173). It will have a positive impact in livestock and the food system, but also improve our healthier lifestyle. Both call to actions by the authors will help greatly reduced the 9,000 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (“Greenhouse Gases,” 2016), as well as the 68.8 percent of obese adults in America (“Overweight and Obesity Statistics”