Introduction:
Food Inc. is a American documentary film directed by Emmy Award winning
film maker Robrt Kenner. The film examines corporate farming in the United States,
concluding that agribusiness produces food that is unhealthy, in a way that is
environmentally harmful and abusive of both animals and employees. It is a powerful,
startling indictment of industrial food production ,revealing truths about what we eat,
how it is produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
Content:
The film’s first segment examines the industrial production of meat (chicken,
beef and pork), calling it inhumane and economically and environmentally
unsustainable. Chicken and other birds are grown and slaughtered at half the time as
compared to 50yrs ago, but are twice as large. The egg –to-death life of a chicken is now
six weeks. They’re grown in cages too small for them to move, in darkness to make them
sleep more and quarrel less. They are fattened so fast they can’t stand up or walk. When
the chickens are being transported to the plant, all the ones that make it, whether sick,
filthy, or injured, get processed through the plant.
The second segment looks at the industrial production of grains and
vegetables (primarily corn and soy beans), again labeling this economically and
environmentally unsustainable. Why Americans getting faster? A lot of it has to do with
corn syrup, which is the predomintant sweetener. Cattle have been trained to eat corn
instead of grass, their natural food. Corn, in fact, is an ingredient in 80 percent of super
market products .In U.S 30% of land base grow corn, farmers paid to over produce this
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...s processing affect us ,positively or negatively,
because we should have the right to choose that for ourselves.
I learned from this film that we can vote to change this system,buy from
companies that treat workers, animals and the environment with respect. When you go to
supermarket buy foods are seasonal , know what is in your food, read labels, know what you
buy. The food industry will deliver to the market place demands, so if we demand good whole
some food we will get it. Every one has right to healthy food. The healthy food is available to all
people, generally most of the healthy foods are cheap once the manufacturers and companies
trying to sell fashionably with packings for attraction of consumers it becomes costly. If
people tries to buy local, seasonal foods they can eat healthy food at affordable price.
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.
Fast food consumption is taking America by a storm and it is for the sake of our lives. Fast food relies heavily on industrialized corn because of how cheap and easy to grow it is. With that being said, animals are being fed with corn rather than being fed with grass. In the Omnivore’s Dilemma, Rich Blair who runs a “cow-calf” operation s...
One subject that came up in this documentary was that of Broiler Chicken houses. Food.Inc made it seem as if these houses were cruel, and were bad for the chickens. The one chicken house owner they did interview, made it seem as if this job were terrible and that the regulations that they had were causing harm to the chickens. When they videoed them taking the chickens away to get processed, they made it seem as if they were abusing the chickens.
Currently, the United States is the largest producer of corn in the world. In 2010, it produced 32% of the world’s corn crop. Corn is grown on approximately 400,000 U.S. farms, showing the importance of corn in the United States’ diets. Twenty percent of the corn produced is exported and corn grown for grain accounts for almost one quarter of the harvested crop acres in this country (National Corn Grower's Associatio...
First, addressing perceived authenticity of social mission in a changing marketplace. In a book called The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan, criticized Whole Foods and business like it to task for contributing the rise of industrial organic farms. As Whole Foods purchased from natural foods farming giants and he accused the company of ignoring the local focused, sustainable values that it supposedly acclaimed. Second, focus on suitable acquisition candidates to continue upwards growth trend. As it was said earlier that its strategy to increase its competitive market by acquiring Wild Oats, it faced a challenge from FTC (Federal Trade Commission) who was trying to stop the acquisition, fearful of the organic supermarket industry being monopolized by Whole Foods. Despite its challenges, I think it is possible in scale and profits and stay true to a social mission. According to Mackey, he saw a synergy from this tension and he called it “conscious capitalism” where this system as based on the pursuit of a deeper purpose beyond making profits. The best way to maximize profits is to not make them a primary goal of a business and I believe that the most successful businesses is to put customer
Chickens are one of the top most tortured animals in factory farms. Farmers get the most money for chickens that are heavier and have enlarged thighs and breasts. Like most factory farmed animals, broiler chickens are raised in overcrowded cages their entire life, and become very aggressive. Because of this aggressiveness the employees of the farms cut of their beaks and toes without any type of painkiller or an anesthetic just to keep them from fighting. After being “debeaked” some chickens are then not able to eat and starve. Layer chickens lay 90-95% of the eggs sold in the U.S. (2013b) The torture starts the day they are born. Chicks are placed on a belt, where an employee than picks up each chick to see if it is a male or female. Newborn male chicks are thrown into trash bags, ground up alive, crushed, and killed many other inhumane ways.
Broiler chickens, luckily for them, only live up to 7 weeks old until they are big enough to be slaughtered. Their life starts out in incubator trays with hundreds and thousands of other chicks without enough head room to stand up, and not enough room to take 2 tiny steps. So for the first week of their lives it goes from cramp trays, to cramp boxes, to getting dumped onto the filthy floors of t...
If one decides to eat and shop locally, then it will benefit their community’s economy. According to The New Economics Foundation in London, “A dollar spent
The major claim of the Food Inc. directed by Robert Kenner is to produce a lot of food on the small amount of land at a very affordable price ( Lobb) , economic systems and legal food industrial power in U.S.A. The claims are supporting by examining the farmer about their farming system, addressing how the food industrial produced the products such as meat, and showing how the food companies control the farmers and regulation of foods.
A surprising fact is that most of the corn we produce in the United States is not actually eaten. In 2008 the United States produced a total of 12.1 million bushels of maize. Of that 5.2 million was used as livestock feed, 3.6 million for ethanol production, 1.8 million for exporting, .9 million for production of starch, sweeteners, high fructose corn syrup, and oils, and finally .3 million for human consumption in grits, flour, alcohol, etc.
My evaluation of the first situation led me to believe that the best alternative when it comes to dealing with the situation is by using litigation. I reviewed every aspect of this case from the perspective of the produce manager who was giving a report of the situation and it appeared that the man and his wife wanted to falsely claim that it was a slip and fall instance. When the produce manager came to the scene, the woman’s husband started to threaten the manager claiming that he will sue the establishment and even dropped the word ‘NEWSNOW’, which is a feared term. When everything is taken into consideration, there is no proof that the situation was a ‘slip and fall’ incident and their allegations were
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We chose to interview people who were purchasing produce, who were wearing expensive cloth, and others who were just wearing a backpack as a generalizer for the sample group. We found many people who fit this description around a Whole Foods nearby. We began to ask these people general questions regarding their eating choices and how important eating health was to them. Many people who we spoke to explained how long they had been indulging in healthier food and where they seem to still be irritated with the current system of produce production. We noticed a reoccurring trend that seemed to resonate amongst the many people who we interviewed. Even though food today is proudly labeled with an all-organic sticker on the front of its packaging, many people are still not 100% confident that their food is organically grown. Another irritating aspect that many people have do deal with is the high cost of organic food. Many people wish they could afford to eat healthier but the costs associated with healthy food options outweigh the benefits that people see in them. Many people currently deal with this issue by purchasing their food from grocery stores but when presented with the option to grow their own food, many of our interviewees were surprised and excited at the possibility of taking on this
Growth period varies from 3 to 7 days with a maximum limit upto 13 days.
The answer is…these are foods that you have all heard of and they have been right in front of your face, in the familiar places that you have been shopping all along. They are not hidden among the process foods, “these are going to be ‘real’ (unprocessed) food” …” you don’t find fortified potato chips in the superfood category”(Weiss, 2013). You begin by shopping the outside isles of the grocery store. The veggies such as; Beans, broccoli, spinach, tomatoes. The fruits such as; blueberries and oranges. You can also find superfoods such as oats and walnuts or Salmon and Turkey. A favorite superfood is Yogurt, in which you can add your own toppings for added benefits. These foods can be found in almost every supermarket or grocery store near you. Many are familiar with the low-cost grocery chain, ALDI, which offers many of these superfoods at a much lower cost than some of the higher priced grocery chains, such as Hy-Vee or even Wal-Mart. Another great source that is popular right not is the local farmer’s markets that are being held through the summer months and it allows one to buy locally grown fruits and veggies direct from the farmers all in one