Documentary Analysis: Food Inc

Summary After viewing the film “food Inc.” the way I now view the American food industry and our government has changed. I now see the food industry for what it really is, a corrupt business empire that is protected by government officials and policies. In the film it pinpoints many different areas where the food industry has become an injustice to the citizens of America, they have also been protected by laws and policies, and also have treated the cattle, chickens, and other farm animals with such cruelty for profitable gains. Some of the areas where the food industry has become an injustice to its citizens is in the processing of mass food products that are not healthy, the advertising of products to fit the description of farm grown food

It has been taken over by large companies and marketed at high price. Our food is grown based on demand, not on health. In the film, Food, Inc., the chickens and cows are raised to be slaughtered as quick as possible. They are beefed up with feed that is full of antibiotics that become harmful for digestion. The chicken that are raised are in small areas where they have never been exposed to sunlight. There are plenty that die each day because of the conditions they are being kept in. The chicken’s organs cannot keep up with their growth, therefore, they cannot take two steps. Cows are basically in the same situation as the chickens. They are being fed corn instead of grass and are confined to small areas. Listening to the documentary about how the chances of cows being cleaned before slaughtered is traumatizing. That is the food that we eat and how we are supposed to have our intake of energy. If this is how the industry is treating the population we have today, I do not see much difference for the population

Body mass index, or BMI, is used by doctors and health physicians to measure excessively high levels of body fat in relation to lean body mass in an individual. Having a BMI ratio that is considered above average or too high normally denotes persons at risk to several health adversities such as heart attacks, liver damage, diabetes, and even more widespread, obesity. In 2005, the United States Department of Health and Human Services estimated that over half of the adult American population was either overweight or obese, and many of these health concerns were correlated with a person’s diet and type of food consumption. In an attempt to assign blame for the cause, political and social commentators’ claim that long standing farm subsidies on particular food commodities correlate with rising obesity trends in America. In a documentary titled Food, Inc., opened to audience in 2008, award winning filmmaker Robert Kenner argues that current agricultural policies on these subsidized food commodities are allowing major food corporations to mass produce products that negatively affect the health of consumers nationwide. He contends that commodity crops such as corn, wheat, and soybeans are heavily subsidized by the government to produce snack foods that are high in calorie content but low in cost, becoming the prime choice for Americans looking for cheap and readily available foods to eat. Kenner believes that government subsidies need to either be

In the documentary, Food Inc., Joel Salatin stated that ¨if we put glass walls on all the

The Mc Donald brother’s created a revolutionary idea of how to run a restaurant. They brought the factory system to the back of their restaurant, training employees to do just one thing. Kenner is effective in engaging his audience when he shows viewers an animation of animals coming into a farm house from an assembly line. Kenner was hoping that people would be alarmed with how our food is now be raised and produced. Take the Tyson Company who is the biggest meat packing company in the world. The food industry because of mass production has changed how a chicken is raised. Kenner provides a logical visual example showing his viewers that birds are being raised and slaughtered at half the time they were 50 years ago. The visual demonstration of redesigning the chicken to make the breast larger was meant to draw on his viewer’s emotions as well as bringing a sense of urgency to the cause. Kenner went on to explain how “farmers today don’t own their birds, a company like Tyson owns them from the day they are dropped off until they are slaughtered”. Kenner wants to come off authoritative and interviews Richard Lobb, from the National Chicken Council. Lobb provides sufficient information on how big companies like Tyson have taken over the industry. Lobb says, “in a way we are not producing chickens, we are producing food” (Food Inc.). He goes on to tell us, how the system is highly mechanized and all of the

Everyone has the right to know what's in the food that they are eating. It's upsetting how these massive corporations dominate American citizens. If everyone knew how much brutality was required to meet the demands of the fast food industry, I like to think the public would simply not tolerate it and demand that animals stop being designated property in law. I find it impossible to believe that if people knew the reality that they would not want animals to have recourse to legal protections from enduring lifetimes of nothing but abuse.

The film Food Inc., like many other films of its category is not so much of an informative documentary, rather more of a slanderous exposé which blows the lid off of the food industry and its operations. To say that the film is neutral and tends towards more of an educative approach would be a misinterpretation to say the least. Throughout the entire movie it is always evident that the movie aims not solely to educate its audience about the truth of their food, but to convert the misinformed and inspire a rebellion against food industry practices. The movie does this through a tactful approach of bombarding its audience with gruesome clips, facts and testimonial story lines. The film asserts it claim through a thrilling critique of the horrific meat production process which is most prevalent in the U.S food industry and its impact on humans and the environment, while extoling alternative practices which seem to be more sustainable and humane, yet are underutilized. The film goes on to highlight the different players in the food politics arena, emphasizing the role that government agencies play. Also the film divulges the reality that is the monopolization of the food industry by big multinational corporations such as Monsanto Company, Tyson Food, Perdue Farms, Smithfield Foods, etc.

The documentary, Food Inc., was very eye-opening as to how the food we eat is produced. I was particularly shocked at how inhumane the production of meat is. Also, this production showed to be environmentally harmful. The other surprising part was how much of our food is reliant on corn and soybeans. The similarity in taste in many different foods is probably due to the small number of crops that go into food production. I absolutely do not agree with the way our food is produced. Primarily because it shouldn't be such a small number of corporations or such a small number of crops that go into the production of our food. Also, these corporations seem adamant about ensuring that the public is unaware of this fact. People still eat the food knowing

In class we watched the film “Food Inc”, which is an informative film that reveals to us, the consumers, the truth behind where our food comes from. After watching the movie, one of the facts that lingered in my mind was the overwhelming idea that almost anything you can possibly imagine contains corn, from ketchup and cereals, to baby diapers and batteries. Therefore, I will be writing about my thoughts, questions, and reaction to the “Cornucopia” chapter in the “Food Inc” movie. First of all, after being exposed to this film I had a burning question to ask, what types of food purchases can I make to avoid processed corn in my diet?

a. Symbol/pg. 38: something to which people attach meaning and then use to communicate with one another. The symbolic culture that exists within the supermarkets across America are far from actual representations of the true farm life and food processing market, that we the consumers fail to recognize. On thousands of processed food items across the storefront, images of farmers, picket fences, chicken coops, and other typical farm symbols are placed in the consumer’s sight so that they are forced to believe the farm friendly origins of their food. Almost every dairy product sold advertises cows in a green and open pasture, representing that the cows are happily and healthily living prior to begin used as a food source for mankind. This is

These powerful alliances requires the consumer to navigate through the confusing food environment and to pay close attention to nutritional facts, labels, and to carefully and consciously be mindful of advertisement of all sorts of media. For farmers, its a crippling business system that destroys their profession. For consumers, who do not make a conscious effort where they shop and what they eat subjects themselves to a lifestyle that can progressively lead to obesity and many other life threatening diseases. The politics of obesity and disease within the food industry is a public health concern.

In the documentary, Food Inc., we get an inside look at the secrets and horrors of the food industry. The director, Robert Kenner, argues that most Americans have no idea where their food comes from or what happens to it before they put it in their bodies. To him, this is a major issue and a great danger to society as a whole. One of the conclusions of this documentary is that we should not blindly trust the food companies, and we should ultimately be more concerned with what we are eating and feeding to our children. Through his investigations, he hopes to lift the veil from the hidden world of food.

According in Michael Pollan in his article the one who are benefit are the drink and food industry are the one who are benefits from this it very cheap to buy and they use it from add it to drinks or candies and they also add it in the food which the cow eat. The one who are benefit it are the big companies which are Coca Cola, Mcdonald, both of those companies are buying corn to add into their drinks and foods, Coca Cola use it corn on their drinks and mostly the whole drink has lots of corn, but the diet drink are the same it still has the same corn level in, Coca Cola sell they drink daily to everyone how much people are drinking it daily and in Mcdonald they using the same movement add meat that has corn inside, bunch of people come and

In the film Food, Inc. directed by Robert Kenner in 2008 discusses that animals in today’s time are produced at a faster rate and weigh more at the time of slaughter. The movie discussed how chickens are growing six times faster than they did a hundred years ago. A quote form the film is “Back in 1920, a chicken raised on a farm was slaughtered at 112 days and at that time weighed about 2.2 pounds. Moving forward almost 100 years to 2013 and now slaughtered at just 47 days and weighing 5.89

Food Inc. is a documentary I had heard about, but never seen. Many people I talked to about the movie told me how powerful it was and how the movie warped their thoughts on the food they eat. After watching the movie in class I can honestly say that it had no real effect on what I eat or the food choices I make. Food Inc. does an amazing job at showing how big corporations have corrupted Americas food system. Unfortunately Food Inc. didn’t make me change my food habits like it has other people.