Capitalization Of Food Inc.

Grocery stores offer a wide selection of fruits and vegetables that are available year-round. By the time these fruits and vegetables reach someone's home, the harvest process was done days and even weeks ago. Most of the fruits and vegetables are not in season and come from other parts of the world. These fruits and vegetables contain chemicals to help with their preservation. Even if a label reads a piece of zucchini

I was immediately intrigued from the beginning of Food, Inc. There was interesting and valuable information brought up during the film. Many people do not think about where their food comes from. I believe that if people were to know where their food comes from, they would not want to eat it. There are 47,000 products at a grocery store. But, Food, Inc. implies that this is in fact an illusion because all of them are made with the same crops. The fact that there are only a few multi-national corporations that control all of the crops and meat production is a huge surprise. I believe that each person in society would be absolutely shocked if they were to watch this documentary.

For example, the film presents the counterproductive result of feeding cows with contained brains of infected cows that spread a deadly disease through the cattle known as ‘the mad cow disease’. This type of intensive farming is characterized by its use of antibiotics and pesticides that cost higher prices for farmers. Some farmers turn into the industrial farming not always by choice but for companies that own or influence those intense farming practices. There is two agribusiness that has a monopoly the market by selling agricultural technologies to farmers such as pesticides, GMO, and fertilizers that often influence the public policy and farming practices. This system is unsustainable and produces cheap food products which cost is not included in the market but people end up paying for due to the externalities on health, social and environmental problems. As the documentary highly at the start, Americans hate the most the inconvenience of things and therefore some people take for granted their food and prefer to consumed processed products that are toxic, other people who live in food deserts do not have much choice to consumed these toxic products but is the system that limits their accessibility to affordable fresh

American society has grown so accustomed to receiving their food right away and in large quantities. Only in the past few decades has factory farming come into existence that has made consuming food a non guilt-free action. What originally was a hamburger with slaughtered cow meat is now slaughtered cow meat that’s filled with harmful chemicals. Not only that, the corn that that cow was fed with is also filled with chemicals to make them grow at a faster rate to get that hamburger on a dinner plate as quickly as possible. Bryan Walsh, a staff writer for Time Magazine specializing in environmental issues discusses in his article “America’s Food Crisis” how our food is not only bad for us but dangerous as well. The word dangerous

In 2009 a movie by the name of Food Inc. was released that challenged the production of food we eat. The movie examines everything from the science of seeds all the way through the consumption of the food, the food’s often negative effects on the body. The movie ends with the line “You can change the world with every bite”. This quote embodies the heart behind movie that change starts with the individual, and how they make food choices. This sort of change that Food Inc. invokes implies that top down change that the consumer can bring about change to the seed level. Food Inc. challenges the processes that allow companies like Monsanto to feed the world. We must understand how media like Food Inc. effects this mission to feed the world by examining the movie, the history of Monsanto as a company, and looking at the response from both sides to these challenges made in the public square to better combat and address issues brought forth.

The first introduction in the film is multiple images of farms, and agriculture of all kinds. Then the author quickly states that farms do not look like they use to. The message, and start of this film is to inform the viewer about the changes in agriculture, and present ideas about where our food actually comes from. The purpose of the film is to introduce to consumers the risk of eating foods that are owned by large corporations. This film addresses issues with large corporations owning all food sources, treatment of animals, and food-borne illnesses.

From The Pleasures of Eating, Wendell Berry broadens the debate of the food industry with this claim: “Vegetables grown in huge monocultures are dependent on toxic chemicals—just as animals in close confinements are dependent on antibiotics and other drugs” (p. 3). Normally, the food industry topic seems to have an immediate connotation of corrupt practices in the handling of livestock; however, Berry extends the same concern to plants. The primary focus of Berry’s article is to “restore one’s consciousness” (p. 3) of the process of processing foods. Only with this knowledge can one escape—or, at least attempt to—the grasp of the food industry. What is commonplace in the American diet and the American grocery store are scientific products “produced by any means or any shortcuts that will increase profits” (p. 3), making a shopping trip for a truly healthy eater much like a task of sifting through a dump for a gem. Juxtapose the taste of “ugly” produce from a natural garden with the taste of produce engineered to be aesthetically pleasing and the competition is practically nonexistent; however, consumers of the new generation find it awfully difficult to get past the aesthetic comparison.

This claim is proven because out-of-season fruits and vegetables shouldn’t be fresh all year long. To make sure that their produce remains “fresh”, food producers coat their fruits and vegetables with chemical preservatives. Those stores try to convince us to believe these preservatives are safe, by stating you can avoid ingesting unnatural chemicals with your food, by washing your food. Only unprocessed, organic fruits and vegetables will be preservative-free this is the food we should be eating. Since these food travel less, they have a shorter shelf life and they need to be consumed soon after harvesting because the produce is super fresh. For this reason, it is likely that any organic produce you find in your grocery store is locally grown. Also, if you attend a farmers’ market, you can ask the person who grew the produce whether it has been treated with preservatives or other

From gangs around the world to the food industry in America, there are always struggles for the control of power. The film Food Inc. looks at the mass production of food in America, from meat products to corn and soy. The battle to control the production of these crops is never pretty. Another example of the conflict theory is portrayed in this film in several ways. Large companies within America are aloud to patent life, and this has turned into an a battle to control the production of corn and soy. One company, Monsanto, does everything in their power to control these products. One man owned a machine that cleaned and recycled seeds, and he used this machine to run his business. The man was not in violation of Monsanto's patent, but the company was not happy about the

As stated before America’s growing fast food industry has proven to be detrimental toward ranches and farms slowing picking off more and more land for their industrial plants and marketplaces. Dale Lasater a conflicted rancher in Matheson, Colorado has spotted the disappearance these ambiances and truly sympathises for the auspicious ranchers who have gone bankrupt due to the domineering being asserted from larger corporations. Small ranches and farms have literally no power to stop the altercation and are often helpless, this inspired Dale to lay down the foundation for anti-GMO grain based business called Lasater Grasslands Beef and strictly sells only organic cattle to save consumers from an unhealthy diet. Lasater

The natural and organic food industry are in no doubt the most dynamic and diverse in recent years; traditional supermarket chains such as Kroger Company, Costco, and Wal-Mart have also begun undertaking in the natural and organic food market offering competitive prices (Sonya Bells, Whole Foods Market after Fiscal 2015: the Whole Story, marketrealist.com). However, to me, the two brands that resonate the most in this service sector, at least locally here in Columbus, Ohio are Whole Foods Market, Inc and Trader Joe's.

If eco-docs tends to preach to the converted, Kenner presents his findings in such an engaging fashion that Food, Inc. may well reach the very viewers who could benefit from it the most: harried workers who don't have the time or income to read every book and eat non-genetically modified produce every day. Though he covers some of the same ground as Super-Size Me and King Corn, Food Inc. presents a broader picture of the problem, and if Kenner takes an understandably tough stance on particular politicians and corporations, he's just as quick to praise those who are trying to be responsible--even Wal-Mart, which now carries organic

coli, another undisclosed truth comes to light in this documentary. To get rid of the E. coli, our meat products are thoroughly cleansed with ammonia. Ammonia is a chemical that most Americans recognize as a household cleaning item, and now this chemical is in our meat. We are being secretly exposed to this chemical and it is not even guaranteed to work 100% of the time. However, this is not the only chemical used in our food. When eating an out of season fruit, Americans run the risk of eating a fruit that is artificially ripened. Since tomatoes cannot grow in America in the winter, they are picked while green from overseas. Once they arrive in America and are ready to go to market, they are ripened with ethylene gas. Ethylene gas “contains traces of arsenic and phosphorus hydride” (Siddiqui). These traces can cause chronic health defects such as “vomiting, diarrhea with or without blood, burning sensation of the chest and abdomen, thirst, weakness, permanent eye damage, etc.” (Siddiqui). As we can see, the major food companies hide very serious issues from the public, because if they knew the truth, many consumers would be appalled and possibly stop buying their products.

Watching the documentary Food Inc, there were a few points that stood out most to me. I think one of the most important concerns that were brought up is the consumers not knowing the truth behind the food. Whether there is actual harm in our food or not, we still need to know what is going into our food. The harm that may actually be inside our food can be caused by how easy it is to produce crap food now days. Making mass produced food is a lot easier than it has been in the past because genetics have changed animals into growing faster and fatter. This causes harm to the environment by creating factories for these foods to be made, which causes pollution by emitting many CO2 gasses. However this isn’t a concern for the producer. The producer is mainly focused on money they receive even if it causes harm to the environment or the consumers. The use of pesticides and other substances are used in foods, whether it’s in the production of corn growing or in the food in general to help keep germs out. This also causes harm to the consumer and environment that we should be aware of.

Most food found in the grocery store is highly processed. Not just the ramen noodles or fruit loops, but the actual produce. Corporations use hormones, pesticides and antibiotics and genetic modification, which refer to