One argument presented in Food, Inc. is that consumers need to be educated about the cruelty that animals experience on a daily basis in the food industry. The documentary speaks to the point that the structure of the food industry has gone through many changes over the years. There has been an increase in animal population and a drastic decrease in the number of farms this population lives on. The process of taking the food from the farms and getting it to consumers is owned by a small group of multinational corporations who are continuing to gain more control (Food, Inc.). In the 1960s and 70s, traditional farming turned into factory farming. This meant that animals would now be produced in “large numbers by large-scale operations” and mass