1. How has technology been applied to the food production process? Give/describe at least 3 examples. In the last 50 years‚ technology has completely changed the way we eat. When we think about farming‚ we think red barns‚ green grass‚ free-roaming animals‚ etc. Farming‚ now-a-days‚ is far different than the image the industry has lead us to believe. Farming has become a highly industrialized and mechanized business. The reality is our food is no longer coming from farms; it’s coming off assembly
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Food‚ Inc. reveals the shocking truths about the food and food chain that America eats. It narrates the industrial production of meat (chicken‚ beef‚ and pork)‚ grains and vegetables (primarily corn and soybeans) and lastly about the major food corporations involved. The movie makes us aware about the food that we eat‚ the hidden politics about the production systems and economic and legal power that the food companies possess. As the film advances‚ it demonstrates the rise of current method of
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This is the second time I’ve watched Food Inc. and I enjoyed it this time as much as the last. I felt it is an incredibly important film that goes into ideas that have been pushed into us by the society we live in about food and where it comes from. It truly lifts the veil back from a lot of what we consider to be staples of our nation like fast food and the quick and plentiful supermarkets. Without being knowledgeable and skeptical of where our food comes from we can’t hope to possibly exist in
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documentary Food Inc.‚ directed by Robert Kenner‚ sheds light on the modern hidden issues of the meat industry and how it impacts consumers in the short and long term. Food Inc. effectively enlightens consumers of the daily crimes committed by the meat industry with the film’s structure‚ dialogue‚ and appeal to the views rhetoric. The producer bears the intense weight of delivering the message of the film most effectively
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Impact of Food Inc. Food Inc. is a documentary directed by Robert Kenner targeted towards the general public about the ugly truths behind the food industries. The documentary outlines the procedures taken to process the food that surrounds us‚ with the aim to expose and change the basis‚ footprints‚ and corruption behind this process. Kenner successfully does this through several techniques and strategies used to persuade and motivate others to make a difference. Throughout the documentary Kenner
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Chapter 5 In chapter five of Food Inc. writer Robert Bryce writes about the negative consequences government mandated ethanol has had and will result in. He presents information on many studies that show ethanol production causing increased food costs‚ while also decreasing the amount of corn available for food use. Increased air pollution‚ increased water consumption‚ and increased water pollution are also some of the negative consequences laid out of ethanol production. Ethanol has been sold
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study of causes and effects‚ or both causes and effects is causal analysis. For your final essay‚ conduct a causal analysis of Food Inc. Begin with the questions: What are the causes and effects of the current modes of food production and consumption? How are workers affected? Consumers? Think of the cause and effect relationships of between the sources of our food and health‚ economics‚ and politics. As you put your paragraphs together‚ try to develop causal chains (think of the Direct TV ad
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Rhetorical Analysis – Food Inc. ‘Food Inc’‚ is an informative‚ albeit slightly biased‚ documentary that attempts to expose the commercialisation and monopolisation of the greater food industry. The film attempts to show the unintended consequences resulting from this‚ and for the most part this technique is very effective; however there is an overreliance on pathos in lieu of facts and statistics at times. ‘Food Inc’ starts off with a camera moving slowly through supermarket shelves with
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Food Inc. The movie‚ Food Inc.‚ again‚ I was not surprised by most of the information that was presented. Most of our food is pumped with antibiotics causing naturally bacteria to become resistant or has been genetically modified by major corporations. It was constantly preached at my undergraduate college to be “green” in all aspects of life‚ buy local‚ eat organic‚ recycle and so on. So‚ it was this was not a shock. While‚ I was watching the Food Inc.‚ I did find it interesting the interaction
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FOOD INC. I will begin by stating that it is unethical how food overlords have transformed old-fashioned farming into factory assembly lines of production. I find that the following actions are immoral because large food manufacturers threaten small farmers into producing vegetables/animals a certain way in order to “stay in business”. Consequently‚ farmers give up their right of free will; to speak freely‚ farm freely and treat their animals with integrity. Not only is this unprincipled issue
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