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Comparing The Food Industry In Fast Food Nation And The Movie Food Inc.

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The novel Fast Food Nation and the movie Food Inc. both reflect the reality of the food industry. Mortals consume food everyday but no one really knows what happens behind the production of meat or more revolting, what is inside the food itself. These two sources enlighten consumers’ minds towards the dark side of food production. In some ways, humans, animals, and the environment are affected negatively by the evolution of the food industry. Chemicals are start being used in productions and money seems to be running the law instead of human sense. Some of the points in both mediums are quite the same and some are additional to the others. However, there are a lot of relating particulars and facts in both mediums such as the method of expressing …show more content…

The novel illustrates the meatpacking industry as a killing machine because knifes and dangerous machinery are very exposed and workers are easily injured. A worker named Kenny Dobbins was one of the victims of the inhumane meatpacking industry system. He lost his body parts during work and was thrown away by the company just like trash. Meanwhile, the movie depicts inhumanity of the government and industry towards consumers and also animals. The government and the industry are both keeping their eyes closed towards the tragedy that happened to a kid named Kevin. Because of food contamination, he died 12 days after consuming 3 hamburgers. His family deliberately goes in and out of the court and meets politicians to seek for justice for consumers. Unfortunately, nothing is done by the law enforcers, and the industry itself, because they themselves earn profit from it. The mother of the child claims, “the industry is more protected than my son.” At the same time, chickens are genetically modified to meet consumers’ preferences. They are injected with chemicals causing them to grow larger than normal in less than the time needed, thus, causing them unable to walk. The poor chickens are supposed to live the “chicken life”, bred in an open space instead of a cramped coop. It also disgusts me knowing that, to produce more, to feed more, to earn more, a company willingly sacrifices lives. Somehow, the system …show more content…

The novel just explains the effects of fast food while the movie explains deeply the reason why consumers buy fast food. In the novel, Eric Schlosser states that fast food is among the reason kids nowadays are suffering obesity. Different from the movie, it interviews a family who had been eating on fast food for a long time. The reason why they are prone to buy fast food is because it costs less than nutritional food like vegetables and fruits. Because the prices are a huge different, those of low income tend to buy the cheaper, non-nutritional food. Therefore, the movie claims that income is the main reason of obesity. Both mediums opens reader’s minds of how harmful fast foods can be. Personally, I think it is frustrating to know that no action has been taken by any party to stabilize the price of foods. The government is supposed to encourage the citizens to eat healthy food; and to do that is by helping stabilize the

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In the novel were references to rats and workers falling into tubs of meats, which inspired disgust and helped to bring the Meat Inspection of 1906 to life. Since then the public has come to assume that meat is inspected according to government standards to protect consumers, but much evidence indicates that throughout the time bribery of government meat inspectors and deception has resulted in the imposing of much unhealthy meat on the American public. In the end of the 20th century, reports of unclean conditions in meatpacking plants, marketing of unsafe mat, and paid-off inspectors were still imminent, and millions of Americans were suffering from food poisoning as a result of such

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On January 17, 2001 Eric Schlosser, a contributing editor at the Atlantic Monthly and author of Reefer Madness, depicts “The Dark side of the All-American Meal” in his novel Fast Food Nation, one of TIME’s 100 best nonfiction books. In the novel, Schlosser employs many different rhetorical strategies throughout the chapters to inform and convince his audience of the scandalous nature of the fast food industry. Schlosser describes the unseen truths of industry in order to dissuade not only the American public, but all supporters of fast food. He writes to all members of society who eat fast food, so that he can alert them of what is happening beneath the surface of one of America’s most profitable and private industry’s. Chapter five is divided

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