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Ingredients Documentary Analysis

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As a consumer, knowing what is being put into my food is important. How healthy and fresh our food is, is on many people’s minds. By watching Ingredients by Robert Bates, people can have a better understanding of how consumers should see food differently like farmers do. An understanding of our food system is important so consumers can be aware of the risks people deal with when food is involved.
The vertical market coordination of farmers and chefs helps consumers understand where the food they want comes from. In Ingredients by Robert Gates, one chef says when her customers enjoy her food, they ask her where her produce comes from and she tells them the food comes from local farmers, which makes the consumer want to buy the same product for …show more content…

Animals were meant to be free roaming not confined to small areas. Farmers would not put a bunch of humans into a small confinement and limit their food supply, that is considered inhumane, so why are animals being treated as such. The documentary, Ingredients, opened viewer’s eyes about what is going on in concentrated animal feeding operations. In the video, one man says the meat consumers buy in stores comes from a mixture of animals, not just a single animal, so if one of the cows had a disease, then the whole package of meat would be contaminated. Consumers should have the best quality of meats, but animal feeding operations hinder the outcome of meats. There is a higher risk of transmittable diseases from animals to humans in concentrated animal feeding operations (Gilchrist et al., 2006). All consumers should be aware of the risks involved with feeding operations. There have been numerous amounts of meats recalled because of diseases from animals. Another problem that occurs in animal feeding operations is the overuse of antibiotics in the animals. The overuse of antibiotics leads to an increase of antibiotic resistance in animals (Gilchrist et al., 2006). Many consumers do not know how safe meat is to use, animals should not be treated in inhumane ways because they will become ill and those illnesses can be spread to humans, then humans must suffer the consequences for eating bad

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The controversy about the cruelty of factory farming has been around for a long time. A man named Jeremy Bentham in the 1800s saw that the key question about the cruelty of animals is whether or not they are able to endure suffering. Many people can’t give a good reason as to why they eat industrialized meat products, and instead try not to think about the horrible treatment going on in the factories that supply our meat. Appiah sees as cause for worry in our meat industry when he gives a large number of how many animals are shoved into feeding lots, where there is overcrowding. To counter the inevitable disease due to overcrowding, the cattle are given daily antibiotics.

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The “mentality of uniformity, conformity and cheapness applied widely and on a large scale has all kinds of unintended consequences” (Food, Inc.). That is the main situation mentioned in the documentary, Food Inc. Food Inc. is a documentary about the nation’s food industry. Robert Kenner, director of Food Inc., made the film find out where our food comes from and how the food industry has changed over time. The reason behind the documentary is to have people think about where our food comes from and to think about how we could develop a food system that would be sustainable. Over time, the food system has taken over by the industrialization of our food, and the consumers are denied the right to be informed what is in their food and discouraged

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