Long before processed and artificial foods ruled the nation, natural whole foods and nutrients were easy to obtain and receive. People grew their own gardens with fruits and vegetables, acquired real raw meats and cooked almost every single one of their meals. In more modern eras however we see this trend of fast food and processed items constantly being devoured by people and more health related epidemics are rising. The way people make and consume food has drastically changed within the past hundred years. The idea that you need to write books explain to people where their food came from just shows how removed we have become as author Michael Pollan explains in the Food Inc video. The way we eat has changed more in the past fifty years than in the previous ten thousand. Supermarkets have on average forty seven thousand products, and there are no seasons in produce (Food Inc). Now there are tomatoes all year long, grown halfway around the world, picked when it was green and ripened with ethylene gas. Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, explains that it might look like a tomato but really it’s just an idea of a tomato. The food industry doesn't want you to know the truth behind your food because if you knew, you might not want to eat it. The reality behind it all is, it’s a factory not a farm. They are just giant corporations worried about profit and have nothing to do with farmers. The food we eat is coming from enormous assembly lines where the animals and workers are being abused. From seed to the supermarket these companies are controlling a vast amount of this nation’s food. People don't know what is in the food they are consuming, people don't know how the food is being produced and people nowadays seem to not even care. Many fast food organizations use ammonia treated beef in their hamburgers which is the process of meat scraps and sinew are spun in a centrifuge and “washed” with ammonium hydroxide. This is the same chemical used in fertilizers and cleaning products. But that isn’t the only harmful thing fast foods contain. Trans fats are frequently made and created in an industrial process that adds hydrogen to liquid vegetable oils to make them more solid (Trans Fats). Companies like using trans fats in their foods because they're easy to use, inexpensive to produce and last a long time. Trans fats give foods a desirable taste and texture that is mostly artificial and can be very addicting. Many restaurants and fast-food outlets use trans fats to deep-fry foods because oils with trans fats can be used many times in commercial fryers. Trans fats raise your bad (LDL) cholesterol levels and lower your good (HDL) cholesterol levels (cite). Eating trans fats increases your risk of developing heart disease and stroke. It’s also associated with a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes. People we are hardwired to go for three specific tastes, salt, fat and sugar. These things are very rare in nature but somehow almost every food Americans are consuming contains at least one of these substances and is available to us 24/7. Fast food and most other foods that ar