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Food Inc Documentary Summary

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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. I learned and watched many videos before on how the farmers are being forced to treat animals in many inhumane ways by big companies.
The documentary showed several clips of these mutant chickens taking a few steps and then having to lay back down because their bodies can not support their weight. Where the chicken can't even stand up on their own anymore because of the huge amount of unnatural food are being fed to them. I feel like it is not right for us or the environment to make just to produce a little bit of food, it takes a lot of effort, time and money. Not only to farmed animals, it is also to our vegetables. It is true that everyone reached to nice, shiny, fresh, big vegetable than less attractive ones. I …show more content…

Modern food production appears to be more of a factory than an idealistic red farm with green grass setting. We are going to put that food being produced in our bodies, we are not going to get any outcome or benefit us if we keep on doing it. With a rapidly growing population, more food is needed. Corn, being cheap and easier to grow, appeals to not only human consumption, but animals as well. It is so cheap, it is in every types of food, from a tin can of coke to baby food. In the long run this results in serious problems and initially beneficial technology brings more harm than

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