HW 5 - Dominant Discourses Regarding Contemporary Foodways in the U.S.

            Everyone’s talking about it. Food is being discussed everywhere, all over the TV, the newspaper, on the radio, and Internet, even the subway! Everyone seems to think we need to start eating healthier and, well those people who don’t aren’t really out there screaming in the streets about how we should eat more junk and food from hell! No there sitting behind their huge lavish desks and smoking cigars and scheming, scheming of new ways to keep their pockets fat. That is to say, I think the dominant discourse on food is that Americans need to start eating healthier.

            So great, we’ve got all theses PHDs and doctors and all sorts of other people telling us we need to eat healthy. And still McDonalds is making a fortune! Now I wonder why that is…  Because Bush screwed out economy to hell and everyone is broke! And since everyone is broke everyone can’t afford the healthy food, they have to buy the cheapest one and be thankful just to have food. This is the majority of America; and their not going to go without just to eat healthy. Then again, those people also probably don’t have healthcare and when they get sick from all they junk they eat, they’ll probably die. 

The problem there goes way deeper into the government than Bush, much deeper. It goes way back. How did we even get here?  Why did out government turn on us? When did they stop worrying about the people and start obsessing with their wallets? Was there ever a change? Or is that how America was founded, on greed? Pretty much, yes. Columbus was greedy; he stole the land and murdered, raped, and enslaved the natives to build America.  And he gets a national holiday! So now we see how we got here, we were always here. The American government has generally always been greedy, steeling from even its own people to be rich, to get the American dream.

But I digress, more on the topic of food, not only our government her in America is greedy but so is out mindset. And because everyone eats food, of course Americans found a way to exploit that to get rich. Cause that’s what America does. So now we have bad eating habits and bad food production, a broke majority, and all the rich people telling everyone they need to eat healthy. Meanwhile if they do get sick cause of the food they probably don’t stand a chance because no one will pay for their treatment, certainly not the government, who seems to be the cause of all the problems from the very start!

I realize this went sort of off topic, but it is on topic, cause it’s all related. It’s all stemming from the same seed. America’s greed. And it doesn’t look like its going to get better any time soon. In short, were screwed.