Bob Corbett Sept. 1993 Health. One of the dominant concerns of our time is the health or unhealth of our food. Another major area of discussion is how the methods of food production we use affect the environment of the world. Perhaps the major current concern is not with the food itself, but with the packaging of food.
Foods often come in plastic and other non-biodegradable packaging, threatening the environment.
Another major concern of recent years is the cutting of forests to create grazing lands for beef. This whole increased consciousness of the ecological healthiness of food production causes significant numbers of people to alter their eating habits. More and more people are concerned with the effects of the production of the food we eat of food on the producers. People are quite aware of the exploitative wages that Third World food workers receive and the exploitation of many food workers in this country, especially migrant workers. It becomes clear that the eating of great portions of corn by animals is in direct competition with the hungry of the world for access to edible grains.