Eating Habits After Hearing About E. Coli

For my research question I decided to talk about E. coli because I found interest in it while watching Food Inc. In the film, a mother lost her son due to E. coli poisoning and is now spending any time she has in trying to promote better health regulations in our food system. After watching this video it got me scared that I might actually eat meat that has E. coli in it.  But will I actually research where the meat comes from? No. Will I still eat the nice, juicy steak that my mom provides me on the dinner table? Definitely.

Our society often overlooks what we put into our body.  The farmers, manufacturers, processors, etc. are not the only ones to blame when it comes to our health.  We are victimizing ourselves for not knowing how our food is raised and processed. When we go to the grocery store we often just look for the meat that looks the meatiest so that we actually get our money's worth.  But what if the meatiest meat we get has the most E. coli in it? Would we know? No. Because we don’t care what we eat as long as it fills us up, as long as we are not hungry anymore.  The only way we would know if our food is infected with bacteria is if we researched where the company gets their meat from.  The thing about this research paper is that it probably isn’t going to change the way I eat.  So my question is, will your eating habits change after you’ve done all your research for this project?