The central claim to Ethan Huff’s article “Factory food artificially cheap, bad for your health,” is that instead of the FDA instilling more regulations over factory farming, we should instead shift our focus to going back to an agricultural system that is friendly to the land, safer, and encourages more local farming. A few of the reasons Huff goes over are that this needs to happen in order to stop food recalls caused by factory farming. Also, he says this practice is not only mistreating the animals, but also making our food potentially toxic instead of nutrient filled. Huff additionally talks about how these large factory farms need to stop doing what they’re doing because the runoff is polluting the local water and killing aqua life. The values in this article are that we need good quality food, the treatment of animals is important, and we also need to protect the environment from the harm factory farming causes. A few unstated assumptions that are in Huff’s article are that the quality of the meat is superior to what the cost of it may be and that animals that are being prepared to be slaughtered deserved to be treated humanely while still alive.
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