The Documentary Food Inc.

Some people think it is a good thing for food corporations to control what we eat because it will be an easier way to buy stuff and not think for ourselves and having the work done for us. Some people are use to having the work done for them because it is the way of some lives on how some people were raised. That is one of the ways that food corporations control our food system. According to Greenpeace.org, the "six corporations- Monsanto, Dupont, Dow, Syngenta, Bayer and Basf control 75% of the world pesticide market." (Corporations control our food) So those big corporations are just making a lot of money by just controlling what we eat. Having corporations decide for the people on what to eat and what each person should eat is not right. Not allowing people to think and decide for themselves. But, this country is so use to it that is normal to them.

The documentary, Food Inc. was found on Netflix. Argument found in the documentary was how negative the food industry treats the animals people eat.

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.

Food inc. is a documentary on the horrors of the industrialized food industry of the United States. The documentary exemplifies the purely wretched nature of highly industrialized and subsidized farming practices that take place on CAFO’s (Confined animal feeding operations) that harm each one of us who doesn’t take the extra initiative to find alternatives. The documentary also exposes the enforced situations that big corporations place upon farmers big and small. Food inc. doesn’t give many solutions to these issues but it is meant to be paired with the documentary entitled “Fresh.”

Today’s food companies are so large that they control every aspect of the food industry. Company’s control what grows in crops, what certain crops to grow, how the crops are utilized. The documentary “Food Inc.” produced by Robert Kennar and Eric Schlosser, takes a look at America’s food industry and how our food is produced. Most consumers are not going to investigate what actually goes into the products. The documentary “Food Inc.” explains to the viewers why the companies’ way of farming is wrong. The film is biased against industrial farming. Big question everyone asks, “Where does our food we consume everyday come from?”

Let us travel back to the twentieth century, during the World War II, when there was a lack of food and there were soldiers that were overseas that needed to be fed, what is county to do besides create new ways to produce food. The documentary Food Fight, director Chris Taylor, starts off with a chef asking about moms 'good old cooking' and ‘the hassle of making that good old cooking’ and then the chef goes on to talk about the time being shortened and you no longer have to expect that and then the images of a television dinner and a K ration is shown. These images are the beginning of a food war that has is not even close to being

In his documentary film, Food Inc., Robert Kenner strives to divulge the reality of how food gets created in a time where mass consumerism controls peoples lives. Kenners purpose is to uncover how 90% of the foods we eat are chemically enhanced consequently increasing people's desires for them. Furthermore, he attempts to exhibit the cruelty present in the production of the products. To demonstrate this, he filled his documentary with facts, imagery and interviews that causes the audience to be repelled by the food industry and the abhorrent things they have done.

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.

Food Inc., a documentary, coordinated by Robert Kenner (2008) has done their employment if the motion picture has given a voice to an issue and a face to the issue that should be known. Food Inc. what 's more, the Media utilize the apparatuses of social brain research to convince and make its point. Narrative movies are compelling media apparatuses that can be utilized to illuminate, influence, and persuade general society on numerous social points on a constant range of inconveniences and battle of the world. Some well-had documentaries affect individuals who watch them, and this is the thing that the films are they intended to do. Eric Schlosser, one of the film 's co-maker said all that needed to be said in Food Inc., "The industry doesn 't need you to know reality about what you 're eating, on the grounds that in the event that you knew, you might not have any desire to eat it" (Pearce, Schlosser and Robledo, 2008). He reports that ranches don 't raise our sustenance all things considered, it is brought up in manufacturing plants. These multinational organizations don 't need people in general to know how they produce our nourishment. What do this film and my own self-idea need to do with one another? "Who am I?" This investigation of my actual self is an on-going procedure.

A direct quote said by Joel Salatin, the owner of Polyface Farms, states,”If we put glass walls on all the mega-processing facilities, we would have a different food system in this country.” This is a famous quote from the informational and eye opening movie Food Inc. The documentary was created to help change America’s views on the way they eat and how their food is produced. The American Society deserves to know the truth about how their food is being produced.

The public has the right to know where their food came from and how it was produced. Food is not being produced like advertisers say it is and the consumers have the chance to know the truth that “[…] animal and workers ae being abused. The food are becoming much more dangerous that is deliberately being hidden from us”. When advertisers swindle the consumer by placing a picture of natural, surreal, or farms on their product

"When you only have a dollar to spend and you have two kids to feed, either you go to the market and try to find something that's cheap or just go straight through a drive-thru and get two small hamburgers for them and 'okay, here. Eat them.' This is what's gonna fill her up, not that one single item at the market." ( Food Inc., Kenner, 2008)

For my film analysis I selected the film, Food Incorporated. Food Incorporated, is a documentary about the awareness of the food consumed in everyday America. This documentary makes the clear thesis statement that what Americans consider to be food, is not actual food. In other words, the food most Americans consume are processed and artificial.

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 way we eat food has changed drastically in the past few decades. When I think of the process of how our food is made and produced, I typically think of a farm with animals laying around, eating grass, content with everything. Also, I picture ripe red tomatoes, apples, and sweet smelling fruit being pick right when it is ripened so it can get to our grocery stores. This is typically how most people picture our food coming from a farm. It is how they want us to picture it, because it is a happy image: but, it is far from the reality of how things are.