todays food processing industry, and evident that it is a negative one at that. The movie’s…
The film, Food, Inc., argues that our food system has been corrupted by corporate interests; as a result, we are put in danger by very items that should guarantee our survival. We should reclaim our right to health by eating more locally produced organic food and ensuring all people have access to such food. The film wants the viewers to think negatively of the business of mass production of the foods that we eat on a daily basis. The logical fallacies allow the film to capture the attention and emotions of its audience by giving a reason for their concerns, but without any legitimate statistics or facts to back up their claims. The use of these logical fallacies in the film help strengthen its arguments by making the audience feel as if the corporations are exploiting the farmers and their traditions, causing families to go through avoidable obstacles, and making the companies and government look like the “bad guys” in this web that is called the food industry. However, the reality is that the food industry isn’t as evil as depicted by the fallacious arguments in the film.…
People are often at odds to choose between food like organic verses inorganic food or products. And what is the difference and is one actually better for you or is just there to makes it easier for you to justify eating it If you think one is not using the industrial food chain. After reading "The Omnivore's Dilemma", my own personal opinion about the food industry and that many Americans don’t know how or how our food is even processed and grown or raised or how it gets to the grocery store. An example I love is my mom is a kindergarten teacher and she was doing a lesson on food and where our food comes from and the kids new that food comes from a grocery store and that was it. They had no clue that they food they eat had to be grown somewhere else and then brought to the store for them to buy. The next question was who like chicken nuggets and they all raise their hands and then she asked what is a chicken nugget and none of them could answer her. When my mom said they come chickens all they kids were grossed out and said they don’t eat chickens. This just shows today that kids aren’t being told how their food gets to their plate and I feel that this is a very important concept for people to know not just kids. Going along with that people don’t know how food affects out bodies and after reading this book it makes you think about what you eat a lot…
The Food Inc. documentary shows how good quality food is really expensive, and the bad quality food is really cheap. Food industries are using technology to mass-produce, using chemicals and hormones. Killing people in America, these new methods that food industries are using is not solution to feed our society.…
The video footage of slaughterhouses and processing plants made me nauseous to know I ingest food from industries such as those in the film. Aside from seeing firsthand how food is handled, I was also disappointed to realize how unhealthy all types of cheese is for you. Although I did already know cheese isn’t very healthy for your body, I did not fully grasp how much saturated fat and cholesterol is in it until after watching. Cheese is one of my favorite go-to indulgent foods, so I was upset to understand I should probably cut back on my intake. I was also set back by the description of chicken’s affect on the body as well as how it is a “cause of cancer.…
The movie starts with reinforcing that the images of pastoral society that food labels often carry is not reality. I think this traces back to Americans desire to return to agrarian living, just with the perks of industrialized society. Also labels…
order to survive and maintain a healthy lifestyle, everyone needs Food. How much do we actually know about the food we buy and serve to our families on a daily basis? There has been little awareness and understanding of food in America until the film Food Inc., which helps show us how our food is produced, packaged and sold in our native stores. Our nation’s food supply is being controlled by a few amounts of corporations that often put their income ahead of customer health. It’s time that the truth is heard about what we are putting into our bodies, and what is being hidden from us by the food industry.…
Documentaries are usually constructed to portray one point of view, whether it is a negative or positive point of view. Food Inc directed by Robert Kenner, presents a many ideas about how the fast food industry is affecting the ways in which Americans eat. They do this by showing one perspective instead of both. Food Inc doesn’t explore in to detail the positive aspects of fast food; they are just focusing on the negative. They construct the documentary using techniques such as expert opinions, Interviews and statistics to present certain ideas throughout the documentary.…
Food, Inc is a film that lets people in on the food production in American. The film opens up in a grocery store, which has pictures of farmers giving you the idea that the food you are going to purchase is farm raised. However the film calls it a pastoral fantasy. Even though people would like to believe that their food is coming from a farm where that animal is raised the correct way that is not always the case. This film dug into certain aspects of food giving you the ins and outs on how all types of food is produced.…
In the first section of this documentary they talked about the food industry as a whole and how most of the food industry is ran by four or five big industries. This should not be how it is ran as off right now and today these companies are monopolies and run unsafe facilities not for just the people that work there but how the production process is ran.…
This documentary is more or less broken down in a ¬¬form of chapters, using supportive authors of several books on food industry, interviewing knowledgeable individuals, safety advocates, and farmers to advocate the reality of food industry. The documentary first illustrations a supermarket filled with different food items. As the camera focuses on the fruits and vegetable the speaker states “The tomatoes you buy in the grocery store are picked when green and then ripened with ethylene gas.” The process of food production has changed in the eyes of many, over the years. Many of us don’t know where the food comes from. Since 1950’s the fast food industry have had transformed the current method of raw food production. The goal is, “production of large quantities of food at low direct inputs (most often subsidized) resulting in enormous profits, which in turn results in greater control of the global supply of food sources within these few companies.” Only top four companies are handling the meat industry, which are implacable to the animals, workers and environment. The consumption of meat by an average American has raised tremendously so has the demand of fast foods. The methods of production have whole new level. First, thirty percent of American land is based on corn. The government policy pays farmers more to overproduce this easy-to-store crop. The corn is then modified in different chemical forms, which is used ninety percent in most of our industrial foods. The farm animals are feed corn to increase their weight for high dense meat. The cows, chicken, pigs and more over…
Most off our food is handled and processed by somebody else. The truth is Americans don’t have the time to farm and nor do the dirty bits. In America, whoever does the best in the fourth quarter controls how things will run, with the ever growing hunger for wealth there is no limit to what can be achieved. An American Filmmaker, Robert Kenner, released a documentary Food Inc, a perfect example of greed and disregard for what can be considered ethical in the food industry. Kenner was inspired to make this film after reading Fast Food Nation to show how portray the whole supermarket has become industrialized almost resembling the fast-food industries. The documentary Food Inc. is about slaughter houses, food manufacturing, and other food related subsets. The film relies heavily on visuals and also the commentary used statistics and facts creating attitude.…
Overall I thought the film was very interesting and informative. I really enjoyed the foods provided as well. I hope with some time I can slowly make a start to a healthier eating lifestyle and cut down my carbon footprint.…
More people in the USA are involved in discussion and even doing many researches about the food and the food products. There are lots of discussion how the food industry influences to our health and generally our everyday life. Many people blame the government, some others are talking that the main role comes from food industry, while some people still think that every individual is responsible for their own menu as well as their health. It is really not important who says what; the issue itself is one of the main problems in the USA and indeed some of the food products could seriously influence human health. Among many writers David Zinczenko has his own idea how to avoid unhealthy food and how to solve these common problems. Even though Zinczenko assume that food companies should have more responsibility in making healthier food options, he also provides a convincing argument due to his use of personal experience and his well-researched examples of the problem that food can bring in today’s society. He talks about his childhood and the weight problem he had because of the fast food when he was 15 years old. He also talks about the Type 2 diabetes in children that obesity is blamed for. There are many different views how to avoid unhealthy food and prevent many diseases such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease that fast food industry brought along the way and became the nation’s general health problem.…
Not only factory farms but like in Japan, they kill dolphins just because they can. Dolphins are harmless creatures that they kill for sport. I’m not going to attempt to describe the gruesome scenes in Earthlings. But having suffered through an hour and a half of the most sickening footage I’ve ever seen, I realize that there’s tremendous power in the shock-and-awe approach. But if you’ve thought about becoming vegetarian but it just seems too hard, you should watch it. And if you’re vegetarian and think you’re already doing enough, you should watch it. Lastly, if you’re vegan and you want to strengthen your conviction and motivate yourself to do even more, you should watch it. I believe that everyone should watch this film. It has been said that if we had to kill our own meat, all of us would be vegetarian. Watching this movie isn’t far from that. If you eat some meat but do so in as responsible a manner as possible, making sure to get your food from sources that you know treat animals with respect, then I hope watching this makes you more passionate about that cause. If you eat lots of meat, don’t care much about animals, and are happy with that, watching Earthlings will probably make you less so. If your goal is to stay as you are in an ignorance-is-bliss approach, then you should not watch it. But I hope you do anyway. And I hope you share it with someone…