Mass Production In Robert Kenner's Food Inc.

Eating a hamburger these days is like playing russian roulette with E coli. Every hamburger you eat the chances of contracting the disease gets higher. In Robert Kenner’s Food Inc., Kenner examines the effects that corporate farming has on the American consumer. Kenner shows the industrial production of meat where some people are okay with with feeding animals antibiotics while others are not because it causes the meat to be unhealthy. Food Inc. also shows how the animals are being raised is abusive and inhumane. Many people think that mass production is the best way to farm; however, the mass production of food is abusive for the animals causes the food to become unhealthy and the FDA is not doing anything about it.
The mass production of food especially the production of chickens should be classified as animal abuse. Food Inc. shows corporate chicken houses packed with chickens
that can not walk because they grew too fast for their bones to keep up. According to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals the average chicken today is four times bigger than one in the 1950s, and chicken breasts are 80 percent larger than they were back then. Since chickens grow too fast for their body to keep up chickens commonly die from ascites. Ascites is a disease chickens contract when their hearts and lungs can not keep up with their rapid growth. Besides ascites chickens can also become susceptible to respiratory and bacterial infections based on how they are housed. Chickens are usually housed in windowless structures packed with tens of thousands of chickens in mass confinement and since chickens are so close to each other they will most likely die from pecking one to death or infections. Infections are caused in chickens because the antibiotics that they are fed to grow faster causes antibiotic resistant like ammonia. With chickens breathing ammonia and in a room filled with feces the chickens has a greater chance of die from respiratory and bacterial infection then from killing each other. Based on how corporate farms feed, raise, and house their chickens makes it bad for the chickens health and well begin causing chickens to be abuse.
Along with the mass production of food begin abusive to animals it also causes the food to become unhealthy. The abuse of animals and the safety of your food does hand in hand; if there is a poor treatment of animals then you can not expect your food to be healthy. In Food Inc. the cow industry was shown as the industry that was most unhealthy and it was not the fact that multiple cows make up a single hamburger, it was threat of E. coli that made it unhealthy. Cows naturally have E coli in their stomachs, but because of the mass production of cows it caused more E coli to grow in their stomachs. Like chickens cows are fed feed that is not spouse to be in their diet just to make them grow fast. Cows who are natural herbivores are fed corn instead of grass by corporate farms mostly because it is cheap, but corn causes more E. coli to grow in their stomachs. E.coli is then transmitted to humans by ingesting cow meat like hamburgers that has been infection by E. coli. In a study done by the Center for Disease Control has concluded that 73,000 people in the United States will get sick from E. coli alone in a year. Michael Pollan from Food Inc. showed how dangerous corn was to coes diet by saying “ if we took cows off of a corn diet for five days they would shed 80% of the E. coli in their bodies “ Because of the mass production the quality and safety of the food goes out the back door in order to make more revenue.
With the higher dangers of food quality and safety that comes with the mass production of food begin abusive towards the animals and causes a deterioration in the safety of the food: one would think that the Food and Drug Administration would put an end to mass production.
In reality the FDA rather call the small scale farmers unsanitary compared to corporate farmers and even has investigated lese and less. In Food Inc. Robert Kenner showed us a small scale farmer who was furious about the FDA. The FDA would rather spend time investigating his small farm and call it unsanitary whose produce only goes in his area than corporate farms who does way worse things and their produce is able to be sent all over the United States. In addition to the FDA not investigating farms that should be investigated the amount of inceptions have gone down and down.In 1972 the FDA did over 50,000 inspections, then in 2006 the FDA only did 9,164 inspections. The FDA has done nothing to stop the unhealthy mass production of food and with less and less investigations it makes it seem like they do not
care.
The mass production of food has made the raising of animals to be abusive and with the feeding of feed that should not be in the animal's diet has caused the animal to get sick. With the animal began sick it causes the food to be unhealthy and the administration meant to prevent this has turned a blind eye letting it go on.