I read the article “Factory food artificially cheap, bad for your health” by Ethan Huff. The central claim of this article is that the foods that are being produced today are unhealthy and bad the environment. The prices of the foods we purchase in our grocery stores are deceiving since they may be cheap now, but may put a huge burden on our medical bills in the future. Reasons being that farms today are producing foods the cheap and speedy way, rather than the natural safe way. Animals in these farm factories are crammed into small areas causing them to become infested with diseases and feces. Due to these diseases they are injected with hormones and antibiotics that these farmers just assume are the cure all remedy. The author then states, “Compare this to the animals of old that were free to roam the pastures and eat grass and bugs on small-scale, independent farms. Their feces were safely spread on the fields as natural fertilizer in a complementary relationship between animals and land -- as opposed to feces from factory farms that, because it comes from millions of confined animals, has to be disposed of in other ways due to its unsustainable volume” (Huff). Not only are these farms affecting our health, but the land that they reside upon. Our waterways and lands are being contaminated by the fumes and chemicals of these factories and tax paying Americans are beginning see the effects on their bank accounts. Factory farming is an issue that is very much ignored in society today, these issues should be focused on because they reflect the health of the people in our nation, and should not be ignored.
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