Film Analysis: Food, Inc.

Food Inc. interviews notorious authors, farmers, and food advocates. Each interview’s credibility is gained by the movie maker because he acknowledges experts from both sides of the argument. The interviews demonstrate the individual’s knowledge of the food industry. The audience can now make an informed decision on the view after seeing both sides of the argument. Additionally the film makers include a depressing interview that depicts the

All of the scenes in the film can be related to agriculture and food consumption. The first scene may have been a farm, but then it quickly transfers into images of a factory. The film showed us that after factory production the next transition for food is the super markets. This enlightens the audience that all of the food on shelves comes from a production factory. Which would make sense considering the size of America, and the amount of supermarkets. The next topic is that most food is available year round, and that there are no seasons in super markets. With the use

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 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.

Schlosser employs anecdotes in order to evoke emotion from his readers to achieve his purpose. One anecdote the author includes is the story of Alex Donley, a six year old boy. Alex Donley ate a “tainted hamburger” from Jack-in-the-box that led him to become infected with “E. coli 0157:H7”(Schlosser 200). This disease obliterated his entire body and progressed rapidly. Alex died within five days. The author uses anecdotes such as Alex’s to evoke sympathy and fear from his readers, especially parents with young children. The stories make parents and anyone who buys fast food reconsider what they are putting in their bodies for if a young boy can die from a simple burger, then what’s to prevent others, kids, or even one’s self from becoming the next victim in the vicious industry that is fast food? The use of anecdotes ultimately helps the author unveil the beast that is the fast food industry by pulling on the heartstrings of Americans.

Instead, the author should have given a personal story that involved sympathy and one that would have gotten to the readers emotions, such as a little old lady. Meaning that the author wants to inform people about what is being done with the information that is being collected about them. This would have gotten the reader on the authors side even more because it would have caused the reader to start to feel

Food Inc. is a very informative and eye-opening film. The intended audience are those who eat unhealthily in America and all around the world. The film is based in America and it displays what companies put in their food before it goes in our mouths. It uses actual examples to display this, like a boy who died from E-Coli from a burger. The main message that the authors Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan are trying to portray is that we should think before we put something into our mouths about how that food has been treated prior to this.

American agriculture can produce more food on less land and at cheaper cost than any other nation. Did anyone ever wonder why or how? The documentary Food Inc., produced by Robert Kenner, is designed to put the spotlight on the unsafe preparation of food products, the inhuman treatment of animals being used, and the unethical treatment of workers in corporate farming. Robert Kenner uses multiple rhetorical analysis to get his aspect across to his viewers. Throughout the movie, there are several claims to appeal of ethos, pathos, and logos in order to uncover the true secrets of the American food during its journey to the table.

Food Chains, a documentary about the immigrant farmworkers in America's tomato fields earning a little more than a penny per pound of fruits they’ve picked. Food Chains is a documentary with a mission: rearranging an agricultural system that puts profits at a greater importance than people. The victims, in this case, are the tomato pickers of Immokalee, Florida, many of them undocumented immigrants mostly from Mexico and Central America that are too scared to fight for a fair legal wage for fear of being deported form the US. The documentary takes a in-depth look at the lives and working conditions of American farmworkers, concentrating on the case of workers in Immokalee, Florida, one of the largest tomato-producing regions in the U.S. Workers,

Critical Film Analysis: In Defense of Food In Defense of Food is a documentary based on the award-winning journalist Michael Pollan’s best-selling book. It concerns the issues surrounding healthy eating in today’s world, especially in regards to the Western diet. The Western diet has been highly influenced by the food industry and advertising to consumers. It seems there is a confusion or simply a lack of knowledge in terms of what is considered to be healthy.

Walk in the super market, what do you see? Farms, fields of corn happy cows, and isles of divers food. It is all just a cover up. It’s a blindfold to what actually is the truth. The truth is food isn’t that diverse, there is actually only five different company’s handling our food.

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A documentary needs to convince you of what their “advertising” with the content within the film. The film uses diagrams, video, and written fact to get the point across that food is not food anymore. For example, an average regular chicken takes about three months to grow to full size, in the documentary to shows us the with the help of genetically modified food a chicken can be bred with more meat, bigger, and in a shorter amount of time. Is that a real chicken? I have no idea, in my eyes, it isn’t real food anymore. In addition to this finding, the documentary did a night vision shot of how our food is treated. The workers that went to go pick up the chicken threw them, kicked them, stepped on them, etc. Even if the animal is going off to be killed that is no way to treat it! The world is cruel, that is what the documentary shows us. We are shut behind closed doors, in the dark about what are food goes through. Truth needs to be put into not only a documentary, but some part of any movie to help fuel the imagination that anything good or evil is

Since fast food first emerged in the United States it has become a large and successful industry, netting billions of dollars every year. This rapid expansion of fast food has put a fast food establishment within reach of almost every American. In Adam Chandler’s “What if Consumers Just Want to Buy Junk Food” he claims that although a majority of Americans believe they eat healthier today than in the 1970’s, but in fact studies show the very opposite. Chandler associates this to the consumers preference of unhealthy foods, but there is strong evidence that this rise in unhealthy consumption in American society can be attributed to the marketing and business tactics of fast food corporations, the availability and ease of access to fast food, and their socioeconomic status.

The food industry does not want you to know anything more than what you think about what goes on within our farms, because if you knew, you wouldn’t want anything to do with it and they would lose millions of dollars. The reality of it is, these are not farms we are getting our food from, it is a factory. Your image of the cows, pigs, and chickens running around freely is not what “farms” are like today at all. Our meat is being produced by huge corporations that have all the power in the food industry to do whatever they please to. The fruits and vegetables are being picked while still green all over the world wherever the food is in season after being sprayed with harmful chemicals so it stays fresh till it hits our kitchen tables. Our food is coming from factories, mass farming, and assembly lines, where the food has become a danger to us and the people producing it. This issue has a personal meaning for me because, I