Food industry needs to be held accountable.

The Fast-Food Industry should be held Accountable Legally and financially for Obesity.

There is the war on your mind; and there is a choice that needs to be made

between what you stand for and what you support. Do you support a healthy

educated lifestyle or the complete opposite and live in denial? We have been

manipulated through false advertising and lack of information; to eat harmful

foods that affects our relationships, our mental and physical health. “One of the

symptoms used to diagnose depression is change in appetite, so there certainly

could be a link between diet and depression,” says Anil Malhotra, MD, director of

psychiatric research at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, N.Y. Honestly 

Do not be the person that refuses to educate yourself on your own problems you face

wile thinking nothing is wrong and there isn’t consequences to your unhealthy

choices. A 2014 study of more than 4,000 students in New Zealand found that a

high-quality diet was associated with better mental health and a low-quality diet

was associated with poor mental health. The findings were published in the

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. How can an adult support his or her family

with expensive food on a low income, does he or she give up their health &

nutrition just to keep their stomachs filled with harmful ingredients? I say NO;

We need to just be honest with ourselves about how individuals eating habits

and consumptions are related to the health issues we face. naturalnews.com

states “As it turns out, food science is far more advanced and conspiratorial in

nature than you probably ever imagined. Billions of dollars are spent every single

year crafting artificial foods that target and seek to maximize virtually every

aspect of the food-eating experience. This complex process, of course, ensures

that consumers not only eat plenty of junk food, but also repeatedly come back

for more to their own demise.”

I believe these companies (like Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta and Bayer) that

participate in producing products that have harmful ingredients, also harming

environments and have very poor business practices; Should definitely be held

accountable on all levels. Here is why, The food companies restaurants and

grocery stores do not offer healthy choices in food and we should not be

subjected to only having one choice or going without. Is this what we call

freedom and how do you have freedom, when information is being held from our

knowledge? Why should connivance come at the cost of our health?

I as a citizen feel like I've been taken advantage of; pretty much robbed of my

money and hard work knowing that I spent my money on food that honestly

makes me sick as well as jeopardize my health, relationships, well being and

productivity. These companies should be held accountable legally and financially.

According to dailyfinance.com Monsanto is responsible for “145 lawsuits, or on

average about 9 lawsuits every year for 16 straight years, against farmers

who have “improperly reused their patented seeds.”” Monsanto claims legality

over GMO’s and these GMO’s contaminate organic farms and change the genetics

in live stock that eat GMO’s. I ask you this question if they can claim ownership

over organic farms that have been contaminate then could they claim ownership

over humans that consume it? In 2008—the year the previous federal Farm Bill

was completed—the company reported a whopping $8.8 million in lobbying

expenditures (see table below) intended to influence decisions in Congress, the

U.S. Department of Agriculture, and other federal agencies. The money means

nothing if people vote for someone that refuses to accept money from these

companies. Also the manipulation would be impossible if advertising and design

companies refuse to do business. Is the manipulation just a sheer fight between

designers trying to get the next job and manipulate the people for a paycheck at

the cost of their health Or is this a fight between the morals of designers and

ceo’s? Overall these companies should be held accountable and forced to have

transparency in labeling and should have to pay off the American debt or pay for

free health care in the United States. I believe everyone would eat more healthier if

these companies were held legally and financially accountable and gave the

money back to the society that they destroyed.

Now that the majority of knows what they are being fed will we stand up and

hold these companies accountable? Our health system is awesome and great; we

save people every day but what are we saving people from? Are we simply trying

to save ourselves from dying while accumulating debt and continuing to put

money into the pockets of elites; when they do not have our health in their best

interest. We need to stand up and save our selves from these companies rather

then trying to save ourselves from dying while we continue to consume the

problem we created. In today's world it's not a matter if something happens to

you but when. You have the chance coming next year to change the moment and

seize the opportunity to let your voice be herd.

Now is the time to refuse to support companies that don't have our best

health in their interest and if people can understand that if we ALL do our part

then these other companies supporting health will gain productivity; there for

increasing demand and lowering prices of the expensive healthy food but it's

starts with your personal choices when your shopping. We should stand up

today and start making the right choices. Go out Register and start voting,

educate yourselves about GMO’s and simply stop giving away your hard earned

money to system that feeds off your ignorance.

Work cited:

http://www.everydayhealth.com/news/ways-food-affects-your-mood/

http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/help-information/mental-health-a-z/D/diet/

http://www.naturalnews.com/

039499_Big_Food_deceptive_marketing_cravings.html#ixzz3cmUZGpYh

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2015/06/10/Study-Americans-waste-1616-billionworth-

of-food-annually/9641433966798/?spt=sec&or=sn

 http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/print-edition/2013/01/18/monsanto-ad-spending-drops-33-million.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/amywestervelt/2012/08/22/monsanto-dupont-spending-millions-to-oppose-californias-gmo-labeling-law/

http://www.occupy.com/article/monsanto-dupont-big-foods-spend-25-million-defeat-gmo-labeling-oregon-and-colorado

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nanny+state

http://inhabitat.com/monsanto-has-sued-hundreds-of-small-farmers-heads-to-the-supreme-court/

http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/blog/2014/sep/6/monsanto_has_sued_farmers_16_years_never_lost_case

http://www.vetiver.org/USA_pimentel_agriculture-03-00443.pdf

http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food-system/genetic-engineering/lobbying-and-advertising.html#.VYM58GAlWKF