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Food Inc Film Analysis

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In Food Inc. documentary the filmmaker Robert Kenner unveiled and exposed our nation’s food industry highly mechanized unsafe food production that have been hidden from the American consumer with the support and consent of our government’s regulatory agencies. I belonged to school of thought that believed that food is life, and life is food. Food production and safety supposed to be a serious business, which l believed everybody needed to be conscious of how it was be produced and processed. After I viewed the documentary “Food Inc.” I was highly disappointed and disgusted about how food farmer treated the livestock, poultry, and vegetables that we eat in a sickening manner. Modern mass food production supposed to be based on meeting the consumer needs and safety but nowadays, they are mainly focused on profit making. The movie showed how thousands of chickens were handling with poor hygiene, cattle are stocked in dry feed lots, and fruits and vegetables are not grown with organic soil. This bad situation will be getting …show more content…

Food producers were operating in order to maximize profit at the detriment of the public health. According to the shockingly informative documentary, sick animals, environmental degradation, and unhealthy food and obesity, diabetes, and other health issues are the more obvious problems with high mechanized food production. Nurses can help by campaigning to promote improved nutrition, sanitation, and other aspects of environmental hygiene related to food production. Moreover, nurses can also lobby with the national government in developing and implementing food safety programs and provide support for setting up information system on how food production grown, produced, and processed. We can also educate the public to take advantages of their backyard to create garden where they can grow some natural and fresh vegetables and

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