Josiah Begin 9/10/14 Sanitation Food inc summary Food Inc. is an depth Documentary on how our food is produced and where it comes from. The sad truth is that that most people don’t know where their food comes from. The movie starts off in the marketplace with the, “pastoral fantasy” advertisement on the plastic wrapped meat and poultry of grass fed beef, happily grazing with a cowboy herding them on his horse. Creating the illusion of where the food comes from. The attention is drawn to the unnatural year round tomatoes that are picked green and sprayed with a color enhancement chemical to get redness.
Cannibalistic Cows April Andrews ENG135 Professor Davis December 15, 2011 American’s diet is in a great dilemma. Just ask anyone where their food comes from, and they will usually say that it comes from the grocery store. However, one might ask where the food in the grocery store comes from. To gain a better understanding of the issues facing American’s eating habits and where its food comes from, Michael Pollen researches these questions in his book, The Omnivores Dilemma. Through his research, he notes that the 100 million head of cattle breed for food are living on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (C.A.F.O.)
Farmers are persecuted and sued for accidentally infringing on Monsanto’s seed “rights”. More than 70% of processed foods on American shelves contain genetically modified ingredients. Can you believe that meats and milk from cloned animals will soon be on American food shelves? Cheap genetically modified corn is fed to cows, chickens and even farmed salmon. More than 30% of America’s land base is planted with corn.
Food Inc. Review After you see the unsanitary habitats cattle are in, the horrible way Tyson treats the chickens, and the way our farmers are cutting corners and are basically being forced to work. You seriously may not pick up a fork for days after watching! I advise you to stop eating and stuff your face BEFORE watching the stunning, HEART- WRENCHING, stomach-turning documentary by Robert Kenner called Food Inc. You will be amazed at how blind and helpless we are as a people when it comes to the food we eat every day… well every 20 minutes if you are like me. The documentary starts us off in the aisles of grocery stores, but very quickly shifts to the slaughterhouses and seeds that make a large portion of our foods. This is when the film very strongly establishes its side and position in this argument.
Kyle Close English 100 Professor Potratz 4, December, 2013 Poverty and Starvation In the united states there are about 4.6 million people on food stamps that are unemployed and go threw a day to day fight and struggle to stay alive and provide food for their family. Ever since the 1980s America has slowly see the decline of the middle class. Americas economy is getting better but is still not good. Parents go through a daily fight and struggle to keep food in their family's stomachs, keep them healthy, and trying to find a job to provide for their family. Food stamps used to be able to help people but it seems today they are causing more of a problem.
Many monopoly owners did not care about what was put in their product and just cared about profit. Immigrants had to buy these products and consume them because there were few other options to pick from and they were very poor. Most younglings died and most adults faced starvation. Muckrakers tried to fix this and soon enough, Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle in response to what he witnesses. This was a detailed book about horrible working conditions and everything that was put in the meat hoppers.
Food Inc. is a documentary that reports the inside story of America’s food industry. Food Inc. does a tremendous job of brining to light what industries are trying to keep hidden. The facts revealed through this documentary are eye opening and should be used to drive change in lives and in America’s food industry. Animals such as chickens, cows, and pigs are treated cruelly in the food industry. Chickens, for instance, are raised and slaughtered in half the time they were fifty years ago; but these chickens are raised bigger.
Richard Lobb, a part of the National Chicken Council stated, “What these systems of intensive production accomplishes, is to produce a lot of food, on a small amount of land, at an affordable price. Can anyone explain to tell me what is wrong with that?” Mr. Lobb makes a point that the food industry can do what they want and get away with it because the national demand of food. According to Food, Inc. in 1970, six companies produced 20% to 25% of the meat consumed in the U.S., today, four companies produce 80% of the meat. Where there used to be thousands of slaughterhouses in the country, today there are 13. One problem coming from this is that when something goes wrong, like contamination or foodborne illnesses, it affects enormous amounts of food.
For Emily and so many others, this battle started with money. She started gaining weight when her family started buying cheaper foods. The seemingly positive side of processed foods is not so positive; it sabotages people everywhere and ultimately leads in a fate of being overweight and attaining diseases related to poor
“The core problem is that cooking is defined as work, and fast food is both a pleasure and a crutch. People really are stressed out with all that they have to do, and they don’t want to cook,” says Julie Guthman, associate professor of community studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz (Guthman). The scientists working behind your instant snack is what’s plumping the country everyday. Eric Schlosser of PBS explained the use of additives in food and their effect on people who ate there. “The flavors of childhood foods seem to leave an indelible mark, and adults often return to them, without always knowing why.