Zackery White ` Food Inc. 1. Incorporation (Inc.) means to form a legal association of individuals‚ created by law or under the authority of law‚ with a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members‚ and with powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members. Therefore‚ Food Inc. implies that food system of the modern day has become more of a combination of monopolized businesses‚ whom only care about their profits‚ rather than the farmers from the obsolete
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Food‚ Inc. is one means by which the American food economic system is analyzed. This documentary film shows how American food economic system follows the idea of capitalism and how it affects the food industry. Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market. A free market economy is based on supply and demand with little or
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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. The United States has grown so much in the food industry from the past. One of
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The movie makes some really good points. The best point is that subsidized corn artificially lowers the cost of animal feed and high-fructose corn syrup. This creates a tax-subsidized economic incentive for people to choose fast food over nutritious options. Scrapping farm subsidies including corn would be a great idea (that the movie doesn’t propose). It has a good segment about how Monsanto is using intellectual property law to unfairly create a US soybean monopoly‚ suing farmers who never bought
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Over the past couple of days‚ we have watched the film‚ Food Inc. This film takes an in depth look at America’s industry and the terrible but legal way our food is genetically engineered. The purpose of this film was to shock every American with facts about the food they consume on a daily basis. The film had specific points of view that everyone might not agree with and also a few topics that stood out to me. Do animals have the right to a certain quality of life? I think animals have the right
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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
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Documentary Analysis: Food Inc. Ever wondered where the food you eat came from? The documentary Food Inc. does exactly that. This film is made by Robert Kenner and Eric Scholosser about the food industry here in America. It focuses on the food industry being a few giant corporations who control everything we eat. The main argument the film brings is that the food industry is very immoral and the government is not doing everything they can to maintain quality‚ which is putting the public safety
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| | | | | Food Inc 4/6/13 In class last Tuesday we watched a documentary called Food Inc. This film was an eye opener for most people but being that I am a sixth generation farmer I understand how the seed‚ meat‚ and poultry corporations work. This film discussed the problems with the food industry today‚ and what we need to do to change the future of how our food is made and processed. In the first section of this documentary they talked about the food industry as a whole and
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Food Inc. The documentary Food inc. by Robert Kenner is a documentary about the food industry and some of the issues that have emerged with the modernization of said food industry. Robert Kenner presents his arguments in sorts of subtitle such as “The dollar menu”‚ and “The cornucopia” to help identify his main points. Robert Kenner also brings in some experts such as Michael Pollen and Barbara Kowalcyk‚ into his documentary to bring some credibility to his argument‚ as well as adding specific
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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
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