False Sense of Security

My research question is "Does the government do enough to ensure our food safety?", and I argue that they do not. I chose this topic because these are the people that we look at for help when a group of individuals are breaking the law, which is exactly what the food industry is doing. They are taking advantage of the fact that they are our major food suppliers and we are forced to pretty much buy their products.  The senate also has a lot of involvement in the lack of progression in this industry. Most senators are basically owned by these large corporations and vote for whatever benefits the food corporations. This happens when a senator becomes desperate to stay in office and corporations such as these (food corporations) run their campaign in return for some "favors". The government is also starting to keep less health inspectors and are letting these companies hire their own, which is obviously a bad idea. These corporations have enough money to bribe these health inspectors off. Even the political officials that fight against this type of injustice get shut down due to the amount of power these corporations have. After the novel, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was released the government caused us to be way more cautious about our food supply and food safety wasn't as big of an issue as it is today. As time went by the standards of our food went down and the government hasn't done anything about it since the early 1900's! If you don't see anything wrong with this than you must not really worry about what goes into your body.