False Imagery Of Food

From the movie we can see that the food industry has done a lot to provide consumers a false imagery of food, try to keep them from knowing what is really happening in the industry. It is shocking how they create the imagery of animals being raised in a farm when they are actually raised in a factory. As well as the illusion of choice, despite thousands of different products on the racks of supermarket, most of them contain the same few main ingredients such as corn and soybean.

Although it is remarkable to see haw corn can be such a great raw material and by reassembling, a lot of things such as high-fructose corn syrup and ascorbic acid can be produced, it makes me think how much do I know about the things that I am eating. Food labels show

Farmers and workers have to work in ways the companies told them to and they cannot fight against them because they do not have the money and power to do so. If farmers disobey the companies, they would lose their contract and go bankrupt because of all the debt they were in for running a farm. If farmers get involved in a legal case with those companies they are bound to lose, because they lack the money and resources. And they are forced to reach a compromise by reality. For consumers, they think they have a wide variety of choices, but in fact many brands are own by the same big companies. So it is not truly a free market, when the whole industry is only dominated but a few big

I think it is very dangerous in the ecological aspect, because if there are problems in a part of the food chain, the whole food chain or food web would be affected or even collapse. Like the example in the movie, people feed corns to cows instead of grasses which is what cows naturally eat, as corns are really really cheap. And the high-corn diet caused E. coli to develop acid resistant. Then a certain E. coli mutation caused numerous food poisoning cases. The movie stated a quite depressing fact, we thought with the advancement of technology, our food would be safer to consume, yet there is an increasing amount of contamination cases. And it was absolutely shocking to know that the USDA did not have the power to shut down plants repeatedly failed microbial testing. If companies do not get punished for failing the microbial tests, then none of them would care about the contaminations in their food. And I think it is unacceptable that the US government cannot even protect its citizens on such basic level. When companies neglect the ecological consequences or food safety issues, I think it is the government’s responsibility to regulate their operations and safeguard the well being of the