Film Analysis: Food, Inc.

“By 1999, to avoid labels that might drive customers away, most major European retailers had removed genetically modified ingredients from products bearing their brand.” (Chayka 1). Today most people seem to be more concerned about what is in their food. The author shows his concerns about GMOs and uses statistics to help his argument. All of the author’s reasoning makes me concerned and worried about our food and the safety of everyone else. People’s health is important for this world to survive and live a healthy lifestyle. GMO labels should be honest about their food no matter what issue they may face. People trust these brands and most likely stick with it for most of their lives. The important part of food companies is being honest with their ingredients, not interfering or harming other food companies, and ensuring the safety of its consumers.

If our food system revealed the truth behind the opaque doors, a multitude of changes would occur: cleanliness, to prices, to working conditions, and workers in general, if there is a greater amount of transparency, animals will be fed the appropriate foods and be treated humanely. Prices of the food would drop as people would be able to examine how their food is being made, (not being pleased with it) people would suddenly refuse to buy, protest, and switch to organic foods until prices were lowered. Finally, workers would be legal and clean from drugs, alcohol and also contagious diseases.

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.

These multi- national corporations are selling the idea that food is still coming from farms and ranches yet it is being manufactured and matured by means of chemicals like ethylene. (Kenner, Robert 2009). They have created factories with assembly lines

Have you ever wondered what the food industry is trying to hide from you? If so then this text will help you understand a bit about GMOs, local farming and the secrets of the fast food chain known as McDonalds. The book that sparked this research was "The Omnivores Dilemma" by Michael Pollan. Today I will prove that the food industry isn't as simple as it seems. The owners of these businesses are exploiting people and only to earn money.

Analyzing the situation question 3, the players in Food, Inc. are the consumers, producers, political figures, and the farmers. Most of the consumers including me are left naïve about where their food is actually coming from. Even though we are left in the dark, we as consumers are keeping the producers in business. The producers are cutting cost by finding loop holes in how they produce our food. Either by employing and exploiting illegal immigrants, feeding our beef corn, and using ammonium hydroxide in the food processing.

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,

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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.

The film Food, Inc. provides viewers with an examination of the corporate farming world, the dynamics of agribusiness, and the political impact it can have on our culture within the realm of the United States. However, in some instances it alludes to the impact that American agriculture has on the global economy. This can be noted when discussing commodity crops and the utilization of labor provided by undocumented workers. These two things are often interdependent as a result of varying forms of the economic globalization that Strayer mentions on page 696 of his book, Ways of the World. It becomes much easier to see the impact that American agriculture has on the world once we start to analyze it, starting with a commodity crop.

In this video related to food processing, Joel Salatin claims that growing animals on farms is better than mass producing animals in factories. Ignorant people who run bigger businesses in the cities are posing certain restrictions on traditional farms without analyzing the favoring criteria of farm treatments over factory processes. Salatin appeals to logos in an effort to provide facts that could counter any claims against the way he runs his farm thus he brings up the USDA’s attempt to shut down his farm due to the fact that they were working in an exterior environment unsafe for the handling of food. Following up with that, the CFU supervised both processes and reached the conclusion that chickens, for example, undergo a sanitation process

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

We would not have any idea that meat, vegetable or fruits, supposed to purchase by us, are genetically modified, every time we go to super markets. In order to make this situation worst most of the consumers do not pay special importance to the food they are eating, when they are actually consuming genetically modified food. As per the figures estimated by Institute for Responsible Technology (2007) in the United States 91% of corn, 79% of soybean and 89% of Canola are sold which are produced

Genetically modified organisms are received very differently based on the country in which they are sold. In Europe, consumers are more aware of how natural the food in which they consume is. Therefore, genetically modified foods are frowned down upon. The government has mandated the labeling of genetically modified foods in Europe. The current framework for genetically modified foods in Europe can be used as an example for what the framework should be in America for the labeling of genetically modified organisms (Bauer 2010). Even in China, a country with a notoriously strict government, consumers are weary of genetically modified foods. The Chinese people are so weary of the government’s involvement in the food that, “British supermarkets frequented by Chinese tourists have imposed limits on how many boxes a single customer can purchase”(Larson 2015). In the United States, the government has abstained from labeling genetically modified foods because the power that large food corporations, like Monsanto, have over the