Food Inc Reflection
"Friends not Food.”: A Reflection on Food Inc.
The film that has taken the biggest effect on me in my life is unquestionably Food Inc. This 2010 Oscar nominated documentary film by Robert Kenner, is still one of the most abhorrent and traumatizing films I’ve ever come across. I can clearly recall trying to cover both of my eyes and ears at the same time with my two hands as the meat factory workers and factory farms chuck the “useless” newborn male chicks into the meat grinder. Into unknown and unheard death they go where their small, soft, and fragile bodies will explode instantly like hidden underground bombs during a war; where thousands of attenuated bones will be crushed into fine fine pieces almost like baby powder. Of course many more innocent and voiceless lives will be taken for the sole purpose of our taste buds: calves and cows, pink shoats and pigs, arresting foals and horses, and even demure ducklings and ducks, will be shot with silver bullet through the skull, or hung at the feet and scored down and across their sore throats …show more content…
I wanted to save the lives of sinless animals. Why did they have to die? It was only two years ago when I saw “Food Inc” and realized that it’s wrong to be petting my dog with one hand and eating a pig with a fork in the other; I thought to myself, the only difference is your attitude and perception. No life should have a bar code or price tag attached to it. Since then, i have become an ethical vegan; the only vegan among my family generation and friends. The feeling of being able to help out my friends and the planet by saving 1,100 gallons of water, 20 pounds of CO2, 300 square feet of forestland, 45 pounds of grain, and a life every day was better than any feeling I’ve ever felt. The worst feeling though, is knowing that 55 billion farmed animals are killed each year, and we are only 7 billion and increasing. We need to
The film that has taken the biggest effect on me in my life is unquestionably Food Inc. This 2010 Oscar nominated documentary film by Robert Kenner, is still one of the most abhorrent and traumatizing films I’ve ever come across. I can clearly recall trying to cover both of my eyes and ears at the same time with my two hands as the meat factory workers and factory farms chuck the “useless” newborn male chicks into the meat grinder. Into unknown and unheard death they go where their small, soft, and fragile bodies will explode instantly like hidden underground bombs during a war; where thousands of attenuated bones will be crushed into fine fine pieces almost like baby powder. Of course many more innocent and voiceless lives will be taken for the sole purpose of our taste buds: calves and cows, pink shoats and pigs, arresting foals and horses, and even demure ducklings and ducks, will be shot with silver bullet through the skull, or hung at the feet and scored down and across their sore throats …show more content…
I wanted to save the lives of sinless animals. Why did they have to die? It was only two years ago when I saw “Food Inc” and realized that it’s wrong to be petting my dog with one hand and eating a pig with a fork in the other; I thought to myself, the only difference is your attitude and perception. No life should have a bar code or price tag attached to it. Since then, i have become an ethical vegan; the only vegan among my family generation and friends. The feeling of being able to help out my friends and the planet by saving 1,100 gallons of water, 20 pounds of CO2, 300 square feet of forestland, 45 pounds of grain, and a life every day was better than any feeling I’ve ever felt. The worst feeling though, is knowing that 55 billion farmed animals are killed each year, and we are only 7 billion and increasing. We need to