In recent months, the food industry has come under attack in various press articles, books, movies, blogs, etc., in which the authors are blaming “industrial” agriculture and the “industrial” food system for many of the problems that afflict our society today.
In an IFT online post, John Floros, Professor and Head of the Dept. of Food Science at Penn State and Past President of the Institue of Food Technologists Foundation (IFT), offers some common sense about the U.S. modern food system and provides examples to offer context. According to Floros, sophisticated technologies have transformed the U.S. food system into one of the most technologically advanced and productive in the world, and U.S. citizens have become accustomed to the safest and least expensive food supply anywhere. All of which, he says, was achieved by using fewer resources, while minimizing environmental impact.
Read the post at IFT.