During the industrialization era in the 19th century, as food manufacturers arose, many of them took advantage of the technology advancement such as preservation, milling, packaging and transportation. The emerging of new technology enables food manufacturers to prepare time-saving food to the mass markets.
Today, when we go to supermarket, we can see various kinds of foods display on the shelves. All the foods are well packing that we can see the picture of farmers, beautiful green grass in the farm and so on. Nonetheless, the industry did not tell us how the foods come from, and they do not want us to know the truth about what you are reading, because if we know we might not want to eat it.In fact, much of the food we eat today may not 100% food at all. This is due to food industrialization. Food industrialized is often called processed food. Due to our food is constantly industrialized, vitamins and protein has losses their value. And, in many cases many foods being industrialized for the reason to ease marketing and distribution tasks, increase production and maximize profits.
Our food today is often highly processed before being sold to consumers. The multinational corporations (MNC) and Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) have controlled the entire food production and change the way food is produced. Currently, the world top 5 food manufacturers may include Nestle, Tyson Foods Inc, Pepsico Inc, Kraft Foods Inc, Unilever and Anheuser-Busch InBev. These world top 5 corporations posted total up US$118 billion in food sales.
Moreover, food industry has been concentrating rapidly. To meet their capitalist requirements, they built the era of industrialized food. However, according to a research, there are 25 world's biggest food companies not taking health seriously enough. Findings suggest that the world’s food companies are not yet fully engaged with the seriousness and urgency of the demands to tackle diet-related ill health, despite having more than adequate resources.
It is become a system of intense factory production, with no consideration for our health, the health of the animals and our environment. Because in a capitalist world, all that matters is the dollar. And, even if we don’t eat these processed foods, the majority of us are still purchasing and eating meat or vegetable produced by these industries. The further issues and impacts caused by the industrial food would be discussed in greater depth in the next section. For Further information, please have a look at the video below.
An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.
