Eat Healthy, America!

  If food was free, what would you eat? Would you choose organic or GMO? With pesticides and herbicides, or without? If you eat meat, grassfed beef, or hormone grown cattle? When it comes to food, we live in a country of many options, but when most are different brands of similar toxins, how easy is it really to make the right choice? It's as easy as one makes it, and there is good food out there, but one has to search for it. I think it's important to make that search as easy as it can possibly be.
  Most eat McDonald's, not because of the quality, but because of the affordability, and how it tastes. But when the affordability is due to mass production and lack of quality, and the taste comes from an added blend of chemical concoctions, its hurting your body more than its helping your wallet.  On a related note, a recent study conducted by the Connecticut College showed that Oreos are as addictive as cocaine and morphine. While cocaine and morphine are strictly regulated narcotics, Oreos are in children's lunchboxes nationwide. Low quality food is viewed as the standard, and organic, non-GMO food, which should be the standard, is considered of the top class of culinary consumables. Millions of families across America eat genetically modified foods, with little to no information about the negative effects, but they are still affected by them. This is wrong, it is peddling poison to the people, and it has to stop.
  I call for a reform of food policies, as well as the promotion of education when it comes to foods and the companies that supply them. Organic foods should be the go to, fruits and vegetables should be plentiful, and people should know what they're getting in the food they're provided with. Processed foods should kept to a minimum, genetically-modified crops should be avoided, and local farms should be favored over large-scale, corporate-controlled agriculture. With money of purchases going to local farmers rather than corporations, more money would be put back into the economy rather than be collected by a large company. With an increased availability of organically produced food, prices will go down, and it will become more economically affordable for the people of America, and the world, to eat healthily. Instead of looking to science funded by corporations to develop and provide us with food, we should look to the food that is present on our planet, the food that has been here for thousands of years, the food that has been provided to us and for us.