Supermarket Secrets Parts I & II

Supermarket Lies : What You Don 't Know Can Harm You

British Journalist Jane Moore 's documentary Supermarket Secrets made me see that contrary to the old saying , what we don 't know can actually hurt us . This documentary , which is based on Moore 's investigation of how supermarkets can afford to sell food products at dirt-cheap prices , reveals much information that both surprised and scandalized me . While I have known for a long time that animals were farmed ' in factories , I used to think that these practices of inhumane treatment of animals

were confined to the fast food industry This documentary certainly changed how I viewed supermarkets and their benefits to society

1 ) What happens between photosynthesis in plants and cell respiration in your body

Moore 's documentary made me examine the changes in how and what we eat and how these affect our health and the environment . During cell respiration in the human body , the human body uses the energy trapped by plants in the process of photosynthesis . Hence , I think that cell respiration is the process by which we humans consume the stored energy from plants in to live . When we eat meat , we consume less energy because the animals have already used up some of them for their own energy

2 )Where does your food come from that you eat

It is clear that our eating patterns have greatly changed . I observed that most of us now prefer meat from animals instead of plant products such as food and vegetables . This is evident in how some mothers even prefer milk substitutes , which is necessarily cow milk , for their babies . We also get most of our food from supermarkets instead of from the farm or raising and farming these ourselves . Most of us , however are clueless that the food we eat now come from factories and we are even more clueless about how this affects us . The presence of many supermarkets and their promise of convenience certainly have its appeal because it saves us precious time and energy by putting most of our basic needs under one roof . Most supermarkets also save us money by selling food at cheaper prices . However , as Jane Moore points out , we should also ask how supermarkets are able to charge lower prices for food and examine if lower-priced food makes us pay for the higher price of our health or from other people 's livelihood

3 ) Can nutritional quality of food be affected by how your food is raised

I certainly believe that the nutritional quality of food is affected by how food is raised . Afterall , if we believe that we are what we eat then we are also affected by what the chickens or the plants eat Moore 's documentary , for instance , shows that the chicken we buy are of the fast-growing variety , are fed on chemical feeds , and are restrained from movement in to produce softer meat . This results to a reduction in protein content , which means that...