Food, Inc- The Movie

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Food, Inc.
The movie Food, Inc. (2008) is a documentary film directed by Robert Kenner he illustrates the ugly nature of the food industry in America. This documentary is a powerful, startling indictment of industrial food production, revealing the truths about what we eat, how it is produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here. In this documentary ethos, logos, and pathos is used to persuade his audience, narrate the industrial production of meat (chicken, beef, and pork), grains and vegetables (corn and soybeans), and lastly the major food corporations involved.
The director wants to make Americans disgusted by how their food is handled by the government. The documentary was produced to make Americans wake up from their unhealthy way of eating. The main claim of this documentary is that the public does not know what is going on behind closed doors. He is trying to get the public to understand where their food is really coming from and how unhealthy it really is. This film targets multinational corporations that include, Smithfield Foods, Tyson, Perdue, and Monsanto as the most powerful corporations in agriculture and food markets, claiming that they control everything.
Therefore, the main parts of the director’s claim are that these multinational corporations care more about money and how to produce quickly, effectively, and cost effective. The documentary exploits the notion of various farmers who strongly disagree with the food industry. It gives detailed accounts of the consequences of the new technology on the livelihood and the lives of the farmers. The documentary also depicts the political and market forces that are behind the food that people consume. Furthermore, it illustrates ...

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...e interviews Barbara Kowalck, whose son had E. coli and died twelve days later. She gets the emotions across to the audience by illustrating her story and using video clips of her son while he was healthy, while sharing his whole story along the way.
Finally, by using pathos, which is the most common concept that is used to make Food, Inc. the film as convincing as it is. The Kenner used footage of cruel treatment of animals in order to appeal to the viewer’s emotions. People who watch this documentary will be very upset while watching this footage because people dislike seeing animals be beaten and killed in cruel ways. This helps the viewer be able to relate to the documentary more, and gives them more of an incentive to believe in the main points of the documentary.

References
POV. (n.d.). PBS. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/pov/foodinc/film_update.php

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