Documentary Analysis: Food Inc.

Justin Rapaport

Period 4

Food Inc. America is a industrialist society. It shouldn’t come as a shocker when we live like this daily. We slave ourselves for minimum wage. We buy for satisfaction or to sell later for a larger profit. It appears to not be a shocker that our food is made the same way because as the saying goes “you are what you eat”. We are capitalist that eat a capitalist meal. So we must question our beliefs. Is our government system to blame for accepting and encouraging monopolies? In the documentary “Food, Inc” they filmed how the food business repeatedly micro-manages their farmers. Incorporations lay down contracts that require the farmers to keep buying more on dept. As a result of banks loans and an annual

documentary went even further in depth into the wallets of these companies. We got to look at who is actually apart of the FDA. It was then shown that the past leaders of the Corporations’ such as Tyson has taken lead control of the board within the FDA (Kenner). As an answer, there wasn’t only a question of conflict of interest. Near the end of the documentary they display how an all-natural farm works. During this, we are informed by the owner of the farm that the FDA tried to shut him down because of a minor threat of possible exposure during the process of gutting within the farm. Even though the farm took proper steps and actions and made an self study that displayed their food was cleaner than the food produced by the food industry. This is a fine example of independence; just because we have one huge company that can do anything it doesn’t mean it more efficient or

The application of the recent science awards in this topic, serving two purposes – to gratify a consumers’ needs in fast food and at the same time to obtain a quota for a clients goals. Taking into reasoning the limits of revenue and higher demands for food, engineers have to create the process of production extremely effectively. The problem at hand is that frequently, operating this task, they either do not meet due diligence to predict possible bad outcomes of their actions and decisions or, being influenced by mercenary owners of businesses not to pay much attention to the bad effects and focus on increasing capacity at any cost, purposely though they ignore flaws of specific creative technologies. In the long run this ends in major problems and initially newer technology that attracts more bad than good. For example, within the documentary we can observe that they feed their cows with corn, this is considered cost-effective and it lets them grow faster, though at the this causes serious problems as an origin of a new, treacherous strain of E