Alec Adorno Mrs. Nyhan 11 AP English April 5, 2024 Food Inc. Rhetorical Analysis The food industry has been constantly criticized by people for an abundance of reasons. Because of these strong feelings, many writers have expressed their opinions on the issues as they break down the structure of the industry.
The director’s assertion, in the film, is also that food companies are in control of what goes in our food and how is it produced. The documentary investigates
In the world, there are one billion people undernourished and one and a half billion more people overweight. In this day and age, where food has become a means of profit rather than a means of keeping people thriving and healthy, Raj Patel took it upon himself to explore why our world has become the home of these two opposite extremes: the stuffed and the starved. He does so by travelling the world and investigating the mess that was created by the big men (corporate food companies) when they took power away from the little men (farmers and farm workers) in order to provide for everyone else (the consumers) as conveniently and profitably as possible. In his book Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, Patel reveals his findings and tries to reach out to people not just as readers, but also as consumers, in hopes of regaining control over the one thing that has brought us all down: the world food system.
The American documentary film, Food, Inc. creates a rhetorical, ceremonial argument that is to anger and disgust consumers that are most prominently of the lower and middle classes by showing them the horrors of the present day industrial food system that tend
Snow Yu Bio 60 In documentary film, Food, Inc., explained and showed the different industrial production of meat, grains, and vegetables. The film concludes by claiming the entirety of our food industry is inhumane, eye opening, worst case scenario processes of commercial farming for large corporate food manufacturing companies. And economically and environmentally unsustainable. The behind story of the food we eat, there are very scary stories of how there were produced.
Do you know where your food come from? Do you know how animals are treated in these so called farms? In today’s world there are many problems with our food. Everything is becoming so artificial. If you go to the grocery story you will see that fruits and vegetables no longer have seasons.
On average, americans lack education of food safety and an insight on food industries. Information that proves our everyday food is dangerous to our health is hidden from us and disregarded. This film shows us how small corporations are controlling not only our food but the supermarkets, and
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.
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.
has a website located at http://www.takepart.com/foodinc/take-action/index.html. By clicking through this website you can watch a trailer for the film, find additional facts, find the latest news on food and the food industry, take action, and find companies who have allied with the film. These tactics help the film to stay relevant. Because this website is constantly being updated with the last news, the filmmaker assures that his film will be instrumental for many years to come. A TedTalk by Johanna Blakley explains her research study where she notes that movies can be an effective way to bring about change.
Though Kenner was successful in using tension and fear to disrupt American’s food industry, he is not able to offer up a viable solution strong enough to console the audience in their newly heightened awareness. Kenner compellingly exposes the foul play present in America’s food industry, but the conclusion falls short, leaving the viewer feeling more scared and powerless than
In the film, Food, Inc., Robert Kenner how big corporations have taken over the food chain in the United States. They control everything from what farmers grow to what are sold in the grocery stores. Kenner tries to tell our food industry is inhumane and unjust. Also, the film shows how large food companies have so much power in legal and economic sides. One of the organic farmers said.
This documentary was about covering some alarming of the issues about the food industries and bringing up the good points about how the publics can be altering to their lifestyles of living in a healthier life. However, one must has to remember that this is a true documentary and the cases of the majority of documentaries, which the producers will try to get the viewers to thinking a certain way and to persuade the viewers to agree with them as well. I am not saying that the issues were unimportant and the information was not very true, but the entire time I tried to view it objective and not getting sucked into their way of thinking
Another ruthless industry that abuses the advertisement rights to the fullest extreme is a common place visited by everyone known to us a fast food restaurant. This industry delivers to its customers, that walking into their establishment would be like an experience like walking on the red carpet headed towards the Oscar ceremony. Therefore, contemplation kicks in at the sight of one of these establishments when hunger takes over the battle is lost by refusing. Because the thought its faster and cheaper to spend some cash on the dollar menu for a bite than to spend a long time in the kitchen.
This is an exposé of the true events that is currently happening behind the curtains of food production, the downside of “conventional” farming industry, the multinational mega companies that ran the food industry, and the power of consumers to change these by altering their lifestyle. This reaction paper is divided in the same way as how I think the documentary categorized all of its contents: Food Agriculture and Production, Food Safety, Food in the Market, and Consumers with the inclusion of issues surrounding each of topics.
