Food Inc.: Deromanticizing the Food Industry In a society where our meals are all prepackaged, served to us or require very little preparation it’s not surprising that people overlook all the processes these foods go through before they just ‘magically’ appear in front of our eyes. Food Inc. takes a look at how all of our food came to be. It’s tough to watch and has you really thinking about what you’re putting into your body. The film uses lots of logic, powerful emotion, entertaining visuals, some borderline conspiracy and commentary from many credible sources. The film starts out with commentary “the way we eat has changed more 50 years than the previous 10,000” and talks about how the advertising for food still depicts classic farm raised food.
The thesis is clear to the readers when reading this article, and it is quite obvious to where Corliss was getting in the text. Some of the challenges he explains include calories. He states it is harder to get a mass amount of calories from vegetables while eating smaller portions and also the correct amount of vitamins. It is easy to over do it on some essential vitamins while not getting enough of others. A big challenge for some people would be taste.
The success of progressivism owed much to publicity generated by the muckrakers. Muckraking novels like Upton Sinclair’s, The Jungle gave readers insight into the true nature of the meat packing industry (Goldfield 623). One of the many grisly descriptions Sinclair provides in his novel is of meat saws slicing through the fingers and hands of factory workers. Indeed, the assembly line stopped for no one, and it couldn't even if it wanted to. After reading The Jungle, many Americans were appalled by the lack of safety precautions and sanitary systems in factories.
The Necessity of Nutrition and Ingredient Labeling Whenever I go to the store I always like to buy items that have detailed nutrition labels and list all of the ingredients that are in the product, because I just want to know all that I am putting in my body. The first thing that comes to my mind thinking about what’s in the food that we all eat today is “you are what you eat”, because to maintain a healthy body I think every person should be more cautious on what they consume and that the food items have nutrition labels on them. I believe it is important for all food items that are sold to consumers to come with a detailed and standardized nutritional label so that the consumer is better aware of what they are getting and that the consumer can avoid allergic reactions due to a certain ingredient in the product. I would like to start off by stating that it is important for all food products to have a nutrition label in order for the consumer to be better aware of what they are purchasing. A food company would argue that it is too complex and meaning less to put nutrition labels on all of the small packs of food that are in the value boxes.
In the novel, Jefferson is first thought to be an unintelligent, dirty and uncivilized animal; a hog. His attorney states in trial “Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this” (Gaines 8). This causes Jefferson to become defeated and alienated, believing himself to be the animal he was accused of being. Jefferson blocks out his family and all connection with his humanity, refusing to eat or communicate. When his nannan cooks him and brings him food he tells Grant that hogs don’t eat and declares “That’s for youmans” (Gaines 83).
I had to leave that all behind to serve the earth.” (Ponyo, Fujimoto). Fujimoto hates and loathes humans and the human world because to him humans only pollute things and destroy what they love. Humans do not step back and examine their lives: Still we live meanly, like ants. (Thoreau, Walden). He wants to bring back the age of the sea and rid the earth of humans.
More women/ mothers started to attain more demanding careers and there would be no one at home to cook healthy fresh meals. Therefore, processed and packaged foods were more convenient and most ready to eat so that even young people could easily have access to this food. Instead of letting packaged and processed foods take control of households, parents should make more time to get home and cook dinner or perhaps make dinner time a family activity, where the whole family works together to prepare a home made meal. Another factor that has contributed to today’s obesity epidemic is the growing amount of advertisement of junk food. This media is advertising junk food everywhere from the television to the internet to the radio and of course the huge billboard on the sides of the highways.
Gathering up the dead chickens, the farmer piles them to dispose of the bodies. She has to do this every day because many of the chickens’ bodies can’t handle the massive growth. ….. There is a real message in the film that animals should not be treated as machines or production units, but are, in the words of Joel Salatin, “critters”. They have wants and needs and thwarting those is not healthy for them or for us.
Why Eat Organic Meat Do you eat organic meat? If you answered no to this question, you are just like other millions of Americans who are oblivious to the fact that non-organic meat is not only bad for you, but is also bad for the environment. Non-organic meat also promotes animal cruelty in some cases. A few reasons why you should eat organic meat include the fact that producers add hormones and other chemicals to generic meat brands; today’s factory farms pollute our environment, and the abuse and ill treatment of animals is often an occurrence for some factory farmers. According to the nutrition labels in today’s generic meat brands such as Great Value, Oscar Meyer, and Hampshire Farms, preservatives and other chemicals such as sodium phosphates, sodium ascorbate, sodium nitrate and hormones are added.
Food like these mutton flaps has now become a factor in the way it impacts communities due to the lack of options available to people and it poses health concerns to the consumers. Richard Wrangham’s book titled Catching Fire, claims that the availability of cooked food enabled human beings to evolve into the species they are today. He argues that cooking is central to the formation of all human societies. The choices by which people consume their food shape the way cultures exist or subsist because it influences production methods, people’s well being, and behaviors within society. All of these combine to form relationships between industries and consumers which impacts our culture and everyday lifestyles.