food inc

I felt that this movie surprised me. I didn’t realize a lot of the terrible things that go on in the food industry and our own government. Our nation’s food supply is being controlled by corporations that are often putting profit in front of the consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and out on environment.

One of the things from the video that really surprised me and actually grossed me out was that even if there is just one sick cow, instead of killing it and disposing the carcass away from the meat, they just put it’s meat with all of the other fresh and clean meat. Also we now have chickens that are being bred to be fully-grown in just a couple of weeks. That was causing a major problem for their little bodies because a lot of them were dying from their living environment and their organs were becoming too large for their tiny bodies. Also, in Food Inc., its filmmaker Robert Kenner shows us that we now have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, and even tomatoes that won’t go bad. The negative effects that were discovered are the new strains of E. coli, which is the harmful bacterium that has been causing illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. There is a widespread of obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

I didn’t know that illegal immigrants sneak to America to work for the farms. I felt bad because they were trying to work and earn money to provide for their children and families. The lady whose son had died from E -Coli also made me sad. She brought it to the government’s eyes to see what farmers are putting in their meat and where it’s all going and who its hurting. They didn’t really do anything at all which made me upset. It showed the secrets that the government is really hiding from all Americans.

I think that the government needs to redirect their views to the organic industry to start investing in those companies. I think that I can help by making most of my food purchases organic, or work on my family’s garden. If everyone could try getting into the habit of purchasing organic foods, things may slowly begin to change.