Film Analysis: Food Inc.

According to Farm Sanctuary, the chickens, and the large barns they are raised in, are covered in feces. Even under these conditions, Perdue still believes they are healthy enough for human consumption (“Factory Farming”). Over the years, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has travelled around the country to protest with other disgruntled Perdue employees. During one of their protests at the Perdue slaughterhouse in Salisbury, Maryland, Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA president, came across chickens dying from heatstroke in exposed crates. After further investigation, she found that if the chickens can’t handle the unethical conditions created by the employees and are dead, dying, diseased, or disabled, they will be thrown like lifeless beings into bins labelled “4D” (“Frank Perdue’s Legacy”). The awful fact of the matter is that most of the chickens are disabled as the majority of them suffer from broken bones. This occurs because of the rapid breast growth the company sets as standards for production. The number of hormones and antibiotics that the company infuses into the chickens makes them grow at abnormally fast rates. The normal chicken’s life span is about ten to fifteen years (“Frank Perdue’s Legacy”). Perdue typically slaughters its chickens once they reach the age of two months. At this age, their breast size is approximately the same as a ten-year-old

Food Inc, produced by Robert Kenner is a documentary designed to expose big industry for corrupting our food system in order to sway the audience into supporting organics and small business. Throughout the film Keener effectively convinces his audience that large companies have indeed corrupted our food system by showing the viewer their role in the obesity epidemic along with exposing their mistreatment of animals and workers through the use of logos, pathos, and ethos rhetoric.

Do animals have the right to a certain quality of life? How would your views change if our cooks got treated the same way cattle and poultry do? How would you feel about them being beaten and brought to their knees just to be detained to know how to cook todays specials? You might think that the food industry has no issues and no faults behind their tasty food, but when you open up the meat curtain, there is a different kind of world out there that is cruel and inhumane. In Robert Kenner’s 2008 film, Food, Inc., He shows the conditions that cows, chickens, and pigs have to live in. The dark and closeted homes in which the animals are closely compacted together and eating, sleeping, and walking in their own manure. As a person who would consider themselves an animal rights activist, most people would agree that the food industry treats their animals like products instead of living things.

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

Have you ever been in a rush, low on cash, and looking for something to eat so you didn’t really have a choice but to grab a burger with fries at your local fast food place? Have you ever paused or stopped to think about where the burger really came from, or the process that went in to be made? The Food Inc documentary investigates and exposes the American industrial production of meat, grains, and vegetables. Robert Kenner the producer of the film makes allegations in this film and he explores how food industries are deliberately hiding how and where it is our food is coming from. He emphasizes that we should find out where our food comes from and why is it that the food industry does not want us to know. Food Inc. does not only uses compelling images, such as hundreds of baby chickens being raised in spaces where they do not see an inch of sunlight, it also includes the speeches and stories of farmers, families, government officials, and victims of the food industry. The four current problems facing today’s food industry are the reformed usage of the false advertisement within the labeling of products , mistreatment of farmed animals, and the harmful chemical in our meats. The documentary Food Inc uses very persuasive tactics that demonstrates strong elements of pathos, ethos, and logos make an effective appeal, while uncovering the dark side of the food industry.

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.

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The phrase “ you are what you eat” has been used for centuries. The healthier your food the healthier you can be. However, as time goes on, I hope this phrase is no longer true. The documentary Food Inc. shows our food and what farm fresh really means; things are not always what they seem. The documentary is dark and gruesome in the way it displays our food and what goes into making it, but it also opens our eyes to the world of production and similarly what we see and what we should be seeing. Although it is a gut wrenching documentary, there is an educational informative truth behind it to see if food is really food anymore.

One issue the documentary highlights is the abuse of animals and workers by the food companies, in order to reveal how the companies hide

I saw the movie was Food, Inc. This film is mainly talking about industrial food. Now, United States has 47,000 products in the supermarket. These foods don’t have seasons; people can eat anyone in all year round. The food is not really food, the just idea is food. Industrial food begins from 1930. Like MacDonald, the company decided to cut cost and simplify. They trained each worker just do one thing again and again. Because each worker just did one thing, so they have a low wage. So, MacDonald succeeds because they produce cheaper food, but that taste good; and the company can earn a large profit.

The movie,”Food Inc.” shows us what consequences can arise with the way American Agriculture is going and the way it shapes America. I believe that we should change the ways we eat, for example, try eating more plant based food because it can reduce how much water we waste and the greenhouse gases that are released in the air due to livestock. We can protect our planet's Since livestock such as cows and pigs, are spent less money on then chickens and fish. Also, we must talk to our representatives of ways to prevent health issues due to food, take nutritional classes, etc. It's important for us to know that our agriculture should be the way we think is best for us and for our planet.

For this Review Assignment, I chose to view Food, Inc. This documentary looks at the food industry’s harmful effects on human health and the environment. It was full of all sorts of facts and figures. It was almost as if the director and producers were trying to use scare tactics or fear factors. While I am sure that all the statistics in the documentary were true, they were also rather one-sided. I know there is likely more evil than good in the food industry, I bet there at least a few good things that they could have talked about. I think this documentary tried to focus on a few too many topics in an hour and a half. While I get why they did that, to inform us of a wide variety of things taking place in the food industry, it seemed slightly

The scene I found most striking, in Kenner’s film, Food, INC. is when farmer who didn’t purchase any gene-modified seeds can easily be sued by chemistry companies and lose simply because the seeds produced by such companies were blown in accidentally from neighboring fields. The first thought that came across my mind was the lack of government supervision, but as the movie continued, I realized that supervision over food is not the one to blame, instead, the whole of the government and justice system is at risk. Large corporation used their many relations with government officials, combined with money and benefits, have successfully infiltrated the above systems, not only are the officers in charge of certain areas formal employee of companies,

The large companies that produce and sell meat for inexpensive prices are to blame for the unethical treatment of the factory farmed animals that people consume. Companies like Perdue and Tyson make a huge profit off of their meats being produced cheaply, quickly, and, quantitatively (Kenner, 2009). The Robert Kenner 2009 documentary called Food Inc. focused on the horrible and the deplorable conditions that animals were put through, while being raised to be slaughtered. The animals in many, if not all of the farms under Perdue and Tyson are being abused and neglected. The chickens used for various products from both companies are left in complete darkness, in small hot spaces where there are so many of them, they are unable to even turn around (Kenner, 2009). The chickens are also force fed with food that include growth hormones to speed up the time in which these animals are ready to be killed. The hormones that the chickens are given not only speed up their maturity from 90