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. A commodity …show more content…
This has allowed for Monsanto to establish a monopoly over genetically modified corn and soy based food, ultimately controlling nearly half the global production of genetically modified food. Subsidies in turn impose net costs on the global economy, allowing us to see that what appears to be sovereign economic choices affects economic globalization and monopoly within the global market. This also impacts the informal economy, given that agribusiness in the United States of America often depends on the labor of undocumented workers. Kenner tells us in his documentary that due to America’s globalization of the commodity crop, Mexican farmers started to find themselves out of work and essentially displaced due to the monopoly and cheap mass production of crops such as corn. Corporations such as the meat packing industry utilized this new source of labor to exploit and commodify workers, often perceiving them as temporary, disposable beings, in order to maximize profit and minimize cost of production. This becomes most obvious when discussing the fruit and nut
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.
choose between a whole meal or one item at the supermarket, despite the nutritional value of one over the other? Michael Pollan, a guest speaker, asks in the documentary “Why is it that you can buy a double-cheeseburger at McDonald's for 99¢, and you can't even get a head of broccoli for 99¢? You want the small one? We've skewed our food system to the bad calories and it's not an accident”(Food Inc.). If Alfredo Orozco had started off with healthy foods in the first place he wouldn’t need to spend so much money on medication, however, the food industry has twisted our thinking and created this issue.
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.
In the movie 12 Angry Men, the panel of jurors is a group of men who have been influenced at the time by social bias and discrimination towards ethnicities that are not their own. They are deciding upon the fate of a young man who is on trial for killing his father and is of Puerto Rican descent. The general decision among the jurors was that the young man was guilty. However, the jurors did not go over the facts in the case; they tried to jump to a consensus until they realized the vote for guilty was eleven to one. Juror Number Eight in 12 Angry Men is a courageous citizen in the pursuit of justice among his peers; he showed the power of critical thinking and individual conviction in the face of discrimination and prejudice.
Food Inc., a documentary film produced by Robert Kenner that was based of Eric Schlosser book, Fast Food Nation and Michael Pollan book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, is designed to inform people by exposing the inhumane policies and techniques within the food industry. The documentary aims to bring spotlight on the reality of the food industry rather than what is portrayed through advertisement. In doing so, the film shows where it all begins in slaughterhouses as animals are raised only to be smash to death or processed in unsanitary conditions, while also including stories from farmers, government officials and victims who suffered from the food industry. The main intended audience is American people in general to warn them of the sinister side of the food industry.
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.
Most people in America don’t know where their food comes from, including me. The documentary Food Inc sets out to expose how big businesses are creating a monopoly over the food industry by mistreating animals, decreasing federal regulations, and creating a veil between the consumer and manufacturers. Along with these concerns, Food Inc brings to mind valuable lessons on stewardshid and causes us to consider the Christians role in it. The first issue that is addressed is the mistreatment of animals.
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
World War I gave many impacts upon the American Society from giving the U.S.A. and its industries success and economic strength. It also pushed the advances in technology and gave multiple jobs to many Americans. Women began working while their husbands were away, for the need of jobs that men would have or any other needs that needed to be done.
Former president George Washington once said, “Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man,” (George Washington Quote). Since Washington’s presidency, countless advancements and developments within the agricultural industry have allowed the United States to grow, develop, and become one of the most prosperous countries in the entire world. Nevertheless, this prosperity is also marked by several key historical events, such as the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions, which have caused the core values and traditions that this great nation was built on to slowly disappear. Today, the majority of Americans have no knowledge, understanding, or appreciation for the agricultural industry, causing them to take for granted the basic necessities they rely on each day. This disconnection has created a gap between producers and consumers, which is known as
However, some believe, that a shift in the way we produce food may have some unintended consequences. They contend that poverty in nations such as Africa and Asia, is caused by the low productivity of the unindustrialized farm labor. The U.S. Agriculture Department projects, without reform, there will be over a thirty percent increase in the numbers of the ‘food insecure’ people in those nations over the next decade (Paarlberg 179).
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.
Over the past couple decades the number of undocumented immigrants involved in American agriculture has increased by the hundreds. They have dominated the fields on the west coast and have been put to work in some very harsh conditions. Many people in the US believe that these men, women, and even children are occupying jobs that legal citizens could have. We realize that even though much of our agriculture these days is harvested by modern technologies, a big part of the agriculture’s economy is made up of labor intensive from people, such as harvesting grapes, strawberries, pistachios, raspberries, etcetera. As we dig deeper into this topic we will realize why our agricultural
Additionally, big business controls the farmers by capitalizing on widely used commodities. For example, the company Monsanto which is based in St. Louis, Missouri protects its dominance over the genetically modified crops such as the soy bean with the use of a patent law. Because of this, Monsanto’s patented genes “account for 95 percent of all soy beans and 80 percent of all corn grown in the U.S.,” (Associated Press). Although genetically modifying the soy bean crop has made it more readily available and more sustainable, this comes at a high price to farmers. Monsanto continues to raise their prices, which forces farmers to accrue even more debt, and there is no sign of the rise in the seed prices stopping. Since a lot of the farmers are under contract with Monsanto, there is nothing they can do about this unethical policy in fear of losing their job.
Could you imagine a world where one could get away with crime and murder without even having anything tested or examined as evidence? Well thanks to forensic scientist that won’t happen. A forensic scientist’s job is to examine the evidence and data from a crime scene. In order to become a forensic analyst there is a lot of training required (according to forensics analyst.com) you could spend up to 7 years training to become a forensic scientist. The field of forensics and crime is very overwhelming in both good and bad ways (according to work.chron.com). By becoming a forensic scientist I will be able to help others and use my investigation skills, and it will allow me to open my mind to new things.