New York City: Food and Sustainability?

Fact: Population = 8,244,910 people
Now how do we feed them?

If we consider the environment of just one specific location, the problems become more obvious. 
-We are importing food to sustain the population (No food grown locally)
-We are using Genetically Modified Organisms and Urbacides to increase food production (What does this do to our heath?)
-Health regulations are being sacrificed 

I found a video that we read in class called "The Meatrix" really interesting. It called out several of the issues that have been formed to meet the growing society's need for food. We all picture the typical barn with hay and pigs running around, but yet we never think about how expensive and impractical it would be to feed everyone off of these farms. The result is the agriculture businesses. They border line animal cruelty and use many different chemicals to produce more, regardless of how it affects your health. It is important that we start thinking for once about the food and sustainability problems we are facing. I would much rather eat quality meat than genetically-altered and processed meat that that is cheap and abundant. We need to act now.