The Meatrix Issues

             According to The Meatrix website "Food Safety", we can know that the safety of the food is extremely important to us. It is because food will affect our health directly. That means our health is totally determine on what we eat. Also, a lot of people suffer from food poisoning and the cause of this is because we disregard the importance of the food safety. So, we need to pay attention and care about the safety of food.

             From the passage, it says that "76 million Americans suffer from food poisoning each year. 325,000 people are hospitalized for food related illnesses and 5,200 die in that same time period." By using these researches, we can know that there is a huge number of people affected by food. Furthermore, where the diseases and infections come from? Most of them are cause by bacteria, viruses and parasites that can be transmitted through the food that we eat. Other illnesses are the result of poisonings from harmful toxins or chemicals. This proved that those problems appeared were because people have a big blunder on the process of the food production. There is only a few corporations to control the food production process, and because of competitions, most of the companies just want to gain the maximum profits and will push the limits on safe food production.

            Not only the side of production, importation is also one of the reasons. Referring to the passage, we know that food safety issues are not limited to meat. "In 2003, the largest recorded outbreak of Hepatitis A was traced back to green onions in Chi-chi's salsa. Over 600 people in the Pittsburgh area were sickened in the outbreak." On the other hand, this shows that people also have a lapse on the food importation. They do not check carefully when they import food from the other countries.

             In conclusion, we must find ways to protect our food. Corporations need to care about the quality of food, but not only the quantity. Also, we have to minimize the risk of the food production process. Last but not least, if we neglect the food safety, everyone's life will be threaten.