Food Inc.'s documentary started with a professional fast food journalist, telling the true horror of the food on our market shelves. It seems people never thought of how those cans, meat products, or any type of food in general--how they got there?
The documentary shows the history of the first "factory" created by the McDonald Brothers. After getting rid of all the skaters and shows, they decide to only hire one person to do one task repeatly, over and over again. That way, not only they saved money, there are more foods being produced.
More product means more demands, and the only way to mass produce more chickens for your nuggets, and cows for your juicy burgers. The documentary continues with interviews with a chicken farmer from one of the major factories. Although she may not have a pitch black chicken farm, it still gives a general feeling of what an actual chicken farm is like. The poor lady who is suffering with allergies are force to pick up dead chickens to a pile of dirt. Even she thinks it's important to tell people out there the tragedies of this artifical selected chickens.
The mass production of animals need for food, also means the need to increase animal food. The documentary shows how corns have influnce the cycle of food. Until now, I never knew that corn was in so many common things around us like frutose corn syrup found in many of the cereals in stores. The freaky thing is, it's not only in food, but also in batteries and charcoal.
Futhermore, it's because corn is so easily produced they're being used to feed cows and chickens. At that moment of the documentary, my eyes twitched when I heard that cows don't eat corn. It's not like having a computer programs where you can just adjust its settings as you please. The helpless cow is now being fatten, ship to a meat factory, and be slice and dice for food. What's worse, if these corns were filled with E coli, guess who will be the one them in the end?
That's what happen to Barbara Kowalcyk's son, who was interviewed in this documentary. This woman wanted nothing more but an apology from the food company, and their word to stop producing these food that harms people. Instead of the sincere apology she and her family deserves, she has to take this matter to court.
Those who dare to say anything ill about the food industry or the product they sell will face lawsuit. The documentary shows how even a famous televison hostess like Opera gets a courtorder for saying that she'll not eat a burger after seeing such disturbing events. According to Kowalcyk's the food companies are protected by a different law. In addition, it's because members of Congress, even the president himself, are very close to the food companies. This not only made bills to change the food industry hard to pass, but also many of those laws are abolished.
The documentary turns to the point of view to farmers that do feed grass to their cows. Gary Hirshberg, made an interesting point that he hopes that his food business stays the same. This is because he wants to continue respecting his animals and customers. He questions himself,if he gets caught up in the heat of high demands how would he handle it?
To sum this up, this documentary is not for changing a person's diet. It's understandable with the econemy that not everyone can buy groceries for dinner. Just like the poor family members that regularly buys take out, not everyone can afford a "balance diet". However, whatever we as consumers buy will affect what the food industry puts on those shelves.
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