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Film Summary And Film Analysis: Food Inc.

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When the documentary Food Inc. was released in 2008 it was groundbreaking. It pulled back the curtain and revealed the sometimes heinous inner workings of the agriculture and food producing sector in the United States. One of the sub-industries it examined was large-scale agriculture, specifically corn. The movie ascertains that even though wheat production per acre has increased from 20 to 200, 30% of the United States land base is utilized for corn production (1). One of the chief reasons for this gross overuse of land for corn production; the large amounts of the federal budget that are dedicated to corn production. In fact, the United States produces so much corn that some food scientists estimate that over 90% of the processed food products
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