Jayz N The Food Film Analysis

Food Inc., created by authors Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan, gives us insight into the American food industry including food production. The film tells us that big corporations coerce local farmers into doing what the company wants. Chapter “From Seed to the Supermarket” focuses on Monsanto’s patented genetically modified soybean seeds. In 1996 when Monsanto started selling 2% of soybeans in the U.S. contained Monsanto’s gene but in 2008, 90% in the U.S. contained the gene. Yet farmers still resist. Moe Parr, a farmer who didn’t plant Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds, was sued but ultimately settled four years later with Monsanto because he couldn’t pay his legal bills. This is just one example of how big companies in an industry own

Racism has been a big problem in the U.S. for all races for a very long time and continues to be a problem to this day. Racism has been a big part in U.S. history and has changed over time, some of these races were African Americans, American Indians, and Mexican Americans, for American Indians it was how they were treated wrong socially and economically.

Racism has been around as long as we have, you could argue that it is a part of human nature- but is it? It all started with slavery; it was custom to use African Americans for a wealthy, white man’s dirty work. Later, the government called for the relocation and removal of the Native Americans to small reservations, so the european settlers could steal their land, and hunt the native animal species’ that the indian’s relied so heavily on to near extinction. Many of the indians on the reservations died of starvation, disease, or violence, while the government sat and watched.

The United States of America has a deep and rich history. Unfortunately, this history has been tainted by racism and intolerance. For a long time in this country, minorities have been viewed as less than other Americans. Like the book, Mississippi Trial, 1955 shows, racism affects many areas of people life. Their have been many attempts to change this way of thinking. Many different civil rights movements have taken place to get equal rights for everyone. However, the United States still suffers from a race problem. What cause racism? In the article, Breaking Down Prejudices: Racism in America: Past and Present, the author Kristian Lazaridi, states the reasons for racism. She states that “According to Aronson (1998) there are four basic reasons

Racism is a major issue and problem that has plagued the United States of America for years. Racism has been around in our country since well before the Civil war and even today we still have people who are prejudice towards other races, but discrimination and other major issues had finally become illegal in the end of the 1960’s with the civil rights movement. During the civil rights movement we had many African American leaders and people who were fighting for civil rights within American.

Racism in America influence individual thoughts and actions as well as institutional patterns; this creates unequal treatment that results in discrimination in education, employment and housing. Being that racism is taught, this will indicate how Americans view one another and separate themselves based on beliefs and racial ideologies. This report focusing on the widespread of racism as well as problems racism creates in America. Also concentrating on the timeline of racism and how racism affects the people it is directed towards. How racism is viewed and what is done will be explained to inform the audience of racism in

Racism is not a new issue for the United States; it is an issue that has plagued our nation since its inception. Whether racism originates from family, community, religious beliefs or friends the tension it creates- destroys. As a nation we have worked to eliminate racism from everyday live. The civil rights movement of the 1960’s and the work of Dr. Martin Luther King brought about some much needed changes. We, as a nation have come a long way, since that time.

The United States of America is a melting pot of diverse ethnicities, races, and cultures. Our country has no official language, religious faith, or skin color. It is simply a country that believes all men were created equal under Lady Liberty’s embrace. Furthermore, with the vast mix of people and differing beliefs, issues on race can easily arise. Racism in America has a long and complicated history. It started as an ideology, but now can be expressed in “institutional patterns or social practices” (Fredrickson, 2002, p. 151). There are implicit and explicit forms of racism that affect a wide group of people. Also, It can lead to severe physical, emotional and mental complications. The adversity that follows racism is overwhelming. For this reason, there has been much research, analysis, and counseling to understand and handle this problem at hand.

I chose the film “Food Inc.”, it was a documentary film released on September 7, 2008 directed by Robert Kenner. I watched the film on Thursday, July 9, 2015, I watched it on my computer and I was watching it at home. The filmmaker, Robert Kenner showed us the truth about our nation’s food industry. And the industry doesn’t what us to know the truth about what we are eating because if we knew we won’t want to eat it. He brings us into farms and the slaughterhouse where they grow bigger breasted chickens and grow chicken too fast that the chicken could not walk properly. He showed us foods that are fed to the cow contains toxic chemicals and creates perfect pork chop. Also, everything we have done in modern agriculture is to grow faster, fatter,

Unfortunately racism has existed in America since the beginning, certain situations have improved and changed but pockets of America still seem to live like it's still the 1600's, with the mindset that a white man is better than a black man. Before the Civil Rights Movement; there were laws that segregated schools, restaurants and almost every other place where people publicly congregated. Even though racism currently still exist, because of the Civil Rights Movement, we can all be treated as equals. Since then we all have the same opportunity for employment, lodging, privilege to vote, and equal access to public facilities. Furthermore since the Civil Rights Movement we share the same; schools, bathrooms, water fountains, waiting rooms, public transportation, the list can go on, America will forever thank the activist who made a forever

Racism is a major problem that has been in our society for many years. The roots of racism date back to when slavery was considered normal, and even further than that. Over the years racism has changed its face and form,

Racism has been a problem in the U.S, for a long time now. It dates back to the time when Native Americans were attacked, relocated and forcibly assimilated into the European culture. However, many people relate more to the African slave trade that occurred a few centuries ago. At the time, the prevalent notion was that Caucasians were superior to other races. Unfortunately, this ideology still persists in the present day American society.

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.

weight of their bodies. It’s common for chickens to die from ascites, a disease thought to be caused by the inability of birds’ hearts and lungs to keep up with their rapid skeletal growth”(PETA). When asked about the condition of her farm, she replied,“That’s normal”(Food Inc.) The conditions of chicken farming today have led to the unethical production of the meat for both, the chickens and farmers.

Racism has many causes. One example of racism is the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi while visiting some of his family down south. Emmett was brutally murdered after an accusation that suggested he flirted with a young, local white woman four days earlier, his body was found barbed to a 75 pound cotton gin on the banks of the Tallahatchie River by a local fisherman. The brother and the husband of the white woman were found not guilty in their trial even though the jury had plenty of evidence and testimonies against them. If racism continues to progress the way it is the US might be faced with another tragedy, like we had in