E-Born Illness In The Movie Food Inc.

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A lot of foods we decide to eat in today’s world that we believe are healthy for us are in fact not healthy at all. Tyson is a company that mainly makes chicken. Tyson puts out to the public that they have all real chicken that are grown on real farms. The movie Food Inc. proves otherwise. The way Tyson, and the few other big companies that are out there, make their farmers raise the food we eat is very disturbing. We all think that we are getting this big thick chicken breast that is nothing but real chicken but that is all false. The way that Tyson and the other three other main companies raise their chicken can lead to a food born illness that is able to kill, this food born illness is called E-Coli. When people think of E-Coli they …show more content…

As said in the article Food born Illness “Meat becomes contaminated during slaughter, when infected animal intestines or feces come in contact with the carcass.” In the movie Food Inc. there is a mom and grandmother of a young boy named Kevin. Kevin was just a young boy at the age of two and a half years of age who was diagnosed with the fodder illness E-Coli when he was on vacation in 2001. He was perfectly healthy with a ton of energy and in just twelve short days he was lying in a hospital bed dead from Kidney failure due to E-Coli. "If ingested, the different strains of E. coli can cause a broad spectrum of symptoms, ranging from mild to severe diarrhea, dehydration, blood disorders, kidney failure and even death” this is what Kevin, a two and a half year old little boy got (E. coli outbreaks). Kevin’s mom and grandmother have been trying ever since his death to get something passed so that all meat is checked before being bought from the stores, they still to this day have not received any attention from any of these big processing companies not even a simple sorry (Food

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