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Food Inc Documentary

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Food Inc is a documentary that basically shows the audience how the food is produced. Robert Kenner's, the director of the film, assertion of this film is that food companies are in control of what goes in our food and how it is processed. In the film, Large corporations are taking over the food industry, causing mass production and causing citizens to get sick. In the first section of this film, it shows how the meat is produced for human consumption, mainly focusing on cows, chickens, and pigs. The producers visit two chicken farms, where the audience is shown the differences in raising chicken. As the film shows, the way these chickens are being housed and the cruelty to both the animals and the farmers. The chicken food industries started to hire more undocumented Mexican workers because they kept quiet to keep from being deported. …show more content…

The food most cows are fed is contaminated and is contributing to the outbreaks of disease and sickness within the citizens. The film talks about a mother who had a two-year-old son named Kevin, who died from eating a hamburger contained with E. coli. This was a great shock to the community and all over the world. Since then, Kevin's mother has become an activist for safer conditions and to ensure that this never happens again, even though it continues to happen. Kevin's Law was introduced also known as the Food Safety Modernization Act. It allows the Food and Drug Administration to inspect facilities, test foods, and recall contaminated products so this incident due to lack of healthy care in the food industry will not happen

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In the United States today, a large part of the average person’s life is food. Each individual consumes nearly one ton of food each year, but never knows what they are truly putting into their body. Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle, was one of the earliest works that provided people an insight to the production of their food. The novel was originally written to show the mistreatment of the workers, typically immigrants, but instead resulted in the passing of the Pure Food Act of 1906. The movie, Food Inc. provides today’s people the same insight that The Jungle gave the people in 1906.

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Upton Sinclair’s, The Jungle is a novel, which affected the food industry in 1900’s but also in America today. People have learned over the years the truths about the food industry, revealed through Sinclair’s detailed evidence. Sinclair meant to aim at the public’s heart but instead he shot straight at their stomachs. One would easily be convinced to never again buy or eat meat again. Fortunately, people have seen changes from 1906 and have been currently trying to repair the Food Industry.

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Among the methods used by the creators in this film is the use of a variety of images that help to enhance the use of other methods by displaying ideas and setting tone. A prominent use of such is the images of animals such as chicken or cows being gathered and slaughtered. Not only does it present that concept of raising to kill, but it continues on with the process after of assembly lines and conveyor belts that gives the whole process a mechanical and inhumane tone. The filmmakers likely used this to provide emphasis for their claim that the food corporation has little concern for the animals and simply sees them as food to mass produce. Thus by doing so in the end it strengthens their claim both by potentially gaining the support of those

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During here interview, she stated, “The companies don’t want farmers talking They don’t want this story told.” (Kenner, Food Inc.) Morison also claimed to state that, “It doesn’t matter if the chickens get sick. All of the chickens will go to the plant for processing” (Kenner, Food Inc.) From this interviewer’s statements, Carol Morrison is a credible source because he spends most of her time in the chicken farm and she has interacted with many other companies like Food Inc. To show ethos in this documentary, the author used his personal experience along with what the industry has stated.

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However if we watch this movie through race and ethnicity we will see how they were discriminated by their appearance. As this scene when Enrique and Rosa were in the bus going to Tijuana at once to the arrival another passenger told them" We are in Tijuana you Indians get off" That was just powerful since the person just showed hatred toward them because of their appearance as he was worth more than them. Also a particular scene that captured my eyes was when Enrique was with his coworker in the restaurant and a "poncho" past by and made fun of him since he was born and raise their and was making the same type of work as them who were illegal 's. As if the film was trying to explain that Chicanos will always be working for rich white persons since the restaurant was full of white rich people. As toward the end when Enrique is looking for a job a truck comes and says "I want strong arms to work" just showed how films see us as just working

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In the segment called Unintended Consequences, Patricia Buck and her daughter Barbara Kowalcyk, who are food safety advocates, visit Washington, D.C. to speak with Diana DeGette, a representative from Colorado, in order to spread concern for E.Coli and get support for Kevin’s Law, a bill that has been in circulation to pass through Congress in remembrance of her son’s death. This example shows that the documentary aims to connect with the consumers to show the risks they should fear as they are at the will of the companies. Kowalcyk’s account also supports the main argument that the documentary is trying to convey, which is that factories are more unsanitary than before. To support their case, the documentary visits Beef Products Inc.(BPI) in Nebraska and speaks with Eldon Roth, the founder of BPI, to uncover the conditions of some of his different beef factories. According to Roth, his factories are ones that are ahead of normal standards from a food safety standpoint.

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The opinions of the reader could be altered once their heart is open to the author. Additionally, Food, Inc. emphasizes the loss of a young boy due to a previously nonexistent disease created by the food industry (Kenner 31:22). This shows the audience the lack of remorse the industry feels towards the child’s death and tugs at the viewer’s heartstrings, pleading for them to take action. The story of Kevin, the young boy who died of E. coli, was only added to inflict hurt into the audience’s heart, making pathos the only reason the story was

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Food Inc. Food is a necessity for life; all organisms must produce or consume food to survive. Humans have been finding various ways of gathering the food that they need, some of these methods even resulting in environmental damage. Ishmael, the main character in Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit, would view the way humans gather and distribute their food today as unnatural and as another “Taker” method. Mass production is one way that humans make sure that they have a surplus of food.

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As shown in the documentary, many companies advertise jobs in the outskirts of the US-Mexico border, attracting people from Mexico. Lured by the “high pay”, many of these immigrants come to this country illegally to work for these huge companies. Whenever these immigrant workers start complaining about the work conditions, the company simply calls the authorities to report them, basically getting rid of them and they are now a problem. Then, the cycle start back at the

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Food inc by Robert Kenner, is a documentary about the regulation issues and food safety americans aren't informed with. In this educational documentary, Americans open their eyes to these occurring issues. This documentary is especially useful and effective to the average american food consumer. I believe a powerful documentary like Food Inc, will help americans better understand the issues we face and the problems occurring in food processing plants.

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The code addresses controls for risk factors to protect consumer health. There were five key interventions established to achieve this goal of addressing risk factors. These interventions are: demonstration of knowledge, employee health controls, controlling hands as a vehicle of contamination, time and temperature parameters for pathogen control, and consumer advisory. The goal of the Food Code is to regulate food processing. This goal is achieved in many ways, but a few are: setting a proper holding temperature for food, identifying incompetent cooking (raw food), restricting contaminated cooking equipment, finding safe sources for food, and setting standards for the personal hygiene of people around and handling food.

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A particular federal agency is responsible for the measures that are conducted to protect food such as fruits, vegetables, livestock. The name of that particular federal agency is named the FDA or known as The Food and Drug Administration. The FDA is a large, U.S. government agency that concentrates its efforts on maintaining safe food and drug products for consumption. The Food and Drug Administration responsible for ensuring that foods are safe wholesome, safe, sanitary, and effective. The FDA ensures that these products are honestly, accurately, and informatively represented to the public (Food and Drug Administration, 2017).

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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.

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She also talks about here frustration with trying to get Kevin’s Law passed to give the USDA the power to shut down plants that continuously produce contaminated meat. Listening to the testimonies given by victims of the food industry can cause the audience to emphasize with the victims and realize that this can happen to their own families. It also raises the

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