Food Inc Analysis

The documentary Food Inc. provided a shocking view of corporate farming in the United States. It exposed the unhealthy, harmful, and the inhumane process behind the farming industry. The documentary addresses the problems in the typical supermarket today and the conception of the meats. They talk about how the producers of the products in the grocery store care about is how the packaging of the products is viewed. They bring out the issue that most of the products in the shelfs are often showed to perceive the idea that it is “naturally” produced from a farm by local farmers. That advertising method gives the consumers a false image of how and what is behind the production of such items. Instead of a pastoral farm, products such as meat are
actually processed in a huge industrial slaughter house. Hundreds, if not thousands of cow carcasses are transferred using a conveyor belt inside a factory-like slaughter house.
With the revolution of producing food, concurring with the advancement of agricultural technology, it reformed the method in which food is mass produced for a mass population. Although the idea appeared to be efficient and positive, it brought many negative repercussions. What really shocked me was usage of corn and how cows were fed with corn in spite of the fact that corn is not their natural food. This was done by the company’s because of how cheap the cost of corn is and how it positively effects the growth of the animals. Furthermore, the mass production of corn unsurprisingly uses a huge amount of land. According to the movie, approximately 30% of the United States land is used strictly for growing corn. The land that corn grown could potentially be used for producing other foods that are actually healthy.