largest purchasers of pork, chicken, tomatoes, and apples. Though an unintentional ,this has had a large impact on the way all food is processed. The top four meat packers now control over 80% of the market, compared to the past,when the top four meat packers controled 20%

In America, whoever has the big bucks dictates how things are run. With money, there is no limit to what can be done. According the Youtube video, “Food Inc.” a perfect example of the desire for more is in the food industry. The narrator makes the argument that profit is put before the consumer’s well being, the legacy of the American farmer, workers safety, and our precious environment (Food Inc.) in many major corporations. I firmly believe that these corporations have put aside and have deliberately tried to hide the truth about how unhealthy the food they produce truly is for the American public. The documentary “Food Inc. produced by Robert Kenner and Eric Schlosser, takes an in depth look at America’s food industry and the terrible but completely legal way our food is genetically engineered. The purpose of this video is to shock the American public with clever filmography and facts about the food Americans consume everyday. The food industry is full of misconceptions. The youtube video, “Food Inc.” declares that the food industry is using deceiving images of agrarian America to sell their product. Images such as lush green fields, picket fences, silos, and 30’s farmhouse, but as the narrator asserts, “it’s the spinning of a pastoral fantasy”. In reality the food being consumed is coming from mistreated animals and large factories all over the country. As the video continues, images of your typical everyday supermarket are cleverly displayed giving the audience something they can relate too. “There are no seasons in the American supermarket”. (Food Inc.) The narrator gives details on how we as consumers get to enjoy ‘tomatoes’ all year round. He states that they were “grown half way around the world, picked when it was green and ripened with ethylene gas” (Food Inc.). This is meant to inform the audience that what they are eating isn’t what it seems. It definitely makes the viewer stop and think next time they are buying a tomato in the dead… Have you ever wondered what's in your food? I know the average person doesn't know what goes on behind the curtain in food factories. Also most people who know about all these food documentaries won't watch them cause they will never eat food the same way. I think that animals have the right to a certain quality of life. First off they should have more room to move around instead of being so close together. Animals are also genetically changed to have more meat. I know after this essay you will agree with me.

In the movie food inc. it shows what animals are treated like in there living conditions. They don't have enough room to roam around they're just stuck there. The chickens are so crowded together they are all just stuck in a big dark room together where they can't see or move. All the cows walk around in there own waste and end up eating it on accident cause its everywhere. That's how the animals are so badly treated.

Big food companies change their animals genetics to be bigger. They make chickens twice their size and they grow to that size in half the time. By the time the chickens are grown they are so big they can barely walk they only take a few steps before they fall. At night when chickens are taken to a factory it makes it easier to catch them when they can't walk and that's one reason why companies do that. Also they change cows by feeding them corn instead of grass which is what they're supposed to eat but they are fed corn because it is cheaper.

I know lots of big food companies would say that none of these things affect your actual food. But most of it does, if these animals are stuck in their own filth then in the end all that stuff is going to get mixed in with food people eat everyday. Most people would be disgusted if they learned what food companies put theses animals through. Also people would buy from smaller companies that care about their food. The big companies simply can't win in this fight.

As you can see what these companies are doing is wrong and animals should have a right to a certain quality of life. Being stuffed in a pen with many others is cruel. Also being genetically changed is wrong to do especially with people's food. As you can see there are many reasons to step up against these companies. I hope for now on you think before you buy.
All of this is overseen by a handful of giant corporations that control the growth, processing and sale of food in this country. Take Monsanto, for example. It has a patent on a custom gene for soybeans. Its customers are forbidden to save their own soybean seed for use the following year. They have to buy new seed from Monsanto. If you grow soybeans outside their jurisdiction but some of the altered genes sneak into your crop from your neighbor's fields, Monsanto will investigate you for patent infringement. They know who the outsiders are and send out inspectors to snoop in their fields.
Food labels depict an idyllic pastoral image of American farming. The sun rises and sets behind reassuring red barns and white frame farmhouses, and contented cows graze under the watch of the Marlboro Cowboy. This is a fantasy. The family farm is largely a thing of the past. When farmland comes on the market, corporations outbid local buye
Your best hope of finding real food grown by real farmers is at a local farmers' market. It's not entirely a matter of "organic" produce, although usually it is. It's a matter of food grown nearby, within the last week.
Remember how years ago you didn't hear much about E. coli? Now it seems to be in the news once a month. People are even getting E. coli poisoning from spinach and lettuce, for heaven's sake.
Why are Americans getting fatter? A lot of it has to do with corn syrup, which is the predominant sweetener. When New Coke failed and Coke Classic returned, it wasn't to the classic recipe; Coke replaced sugar with corn sweeteners.
Cattle have been trained to eat corn instead of grass, their natural food. The Marlboro Cowboys should be riding through cornfields. Corn, in fact, is an ingredient in 80 percent of supermarket products, including batteries and Splenda. Processing concentrates it. You couldn't eat enough corn kernels in a day to equal the number of calories in a bag of corn chips. Corn syrup can be addictive. And then there's fat and salt. A fast-food meal is a heart attack in a paper bag. Poor families can't afford to buy real food to compete with the cost of $1 burgers and $1.98 "meals."
If this offends you, try to do something about it. The Texas beef growers sued Oprah. She won in court because she had the money to fight teams of corporate lawyers. You don't.
Consider Carole Morrison, who refused to seal her chicken houses off from the daylight, and opened them to the makers of this documentary. Morrison's chickens are not jammed into cages, but we see chickens that are unable to stand up. A giant chicken processor canceled her contract and refused to do any more business with her. She was getting sick of how she treated chickens, anyway.
Good food is not a cause limited to actresses on talk shows. Average people are getting concerned. Amazingly, Wal-
Good food is not a cause limited to actresses on talk shows. Average people are getting concerned. Amazingly, Wal-Mart signed up with the eco-conscious Stonyfield Farms, due to consumer demand. When you hear commentators complaining about how the "government is paying farmers to not grow food," understand that "farmers" are corporations, and that the government is buying their surpluses to undercut local farmers around the world. The farmers who grew Bermuda onions are just about out of business because of the dumping of American onions. "Socialized agriculture" benefits megacorporations, which are committed to the goals of most corporations: maximize profits and executive salaries.
This review doesn't read one thing like a movie review. But most of the stuff I discuss in it, I learned from the new documentary "Food, Inc.," directed by Robert Kenner and based on the recent book An Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. I figured it wasn't important for me to go into detail about the photography and the editing. I just wanted to scare the bejesus out of you, which is what "Food, Inc." did to me.

These are certainly worthwhile goals, and humans have been successfully modifying the genetics of their food supply for centuries.

my thoughts on GMO

The food industry also uses undocumented workers who they can pay cheaply, and treat poorly. It is the workers who are punished if caught even if the industry purposely goes to Mexico to recruit them. Chickens have been manipulated to grow three times as fast but in doing so their bones can’t support their weight so they can barely stand. This is also unjust. How can we treat people and animals so cruelly? As the farmer so aptly put it:
How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families?
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that’s been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.