Food Matters expresses that the food we eat is nutritional depleted due to the soil it is grown in, time it takes the food to get to market and the cooking of the food. …show more content…
Eaton published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine arguing “that human genes coevolved with their surrounding nutritional environment” making “our genes…dependent on nutrients in those foods” (Challem, 2013). In Defense of Food Pollan (2008) suggests that we need to “eat food,” natural food, not processed or filled with unrecognizable chemicals. Farmageddon indicates that many well educated, well informed, affluent citizens that have done the research know the benefits of “real,” unprocessed foods but are meeting with resistance from the federal government for their right to choose the source of their food. In Farmageddon those interviewed recounted the health benefits, including decreased or resolved issues with allergies and asthma with the use of locally produced organic foods and milk. The documentary also details the expense the small producers must incur to meet the regulations and paperwork of the USDA and FDA, forcing the costs of locally produced food out of reach for some individuals and