Food Inc. is a very eye opening documentary to the American way of eating and even the American way of life. The investigative journalist Robert Kenner really digs deep behind the reasons why Americans have become so distanced from the source of their food. It is interesting to see to what extent large corporations control the American economy to the point of deciding what lands on the dinner plate of the lower class families. The interests of the people have become the veil of the interest of the
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Semester Paper: Food, Inc. “The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years, than in the previous 10,000.” - Michael Pollan, Food inc. This single statement paints a vivid picture in ones mind. Not only is the way we grow our food changing, but we are also changing our bodies. According to the documentary “Food, Inc” , in the 1950’s, it would take farmers about 68 days to fully grow a chicken. Now? It takes about 47 days to fully grow a chicken, and it is twice as big due to the fact that
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Whole Foods is a large international organization with thousands of employees. In the case study, the co-CEO John Mackey explained that the purpose of the organization was a heroic one. He explained that its highest purpose was “try and change and improve the world.” In order to accomplish that goal, he and the team members need to work in coordination to accomplish that goal. So McGregor's Theory Y in Organizational Behavior is prevalent in the way they do business. Management at whole foods
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When discussing food consumption, transparency is an issue that is not addressed as openly as it should be within the food industry. The conditions in which food is produced should be a cause of concern not only for me, but for everyone as well. Unfortunately, the food industry operates within a productivist, capitalistic system (Lappé, 2011). This means that increased production is the focus, and the interests of powerful stakeholders within the industry are protected more than the people. In the
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consumerism. Food Inc makes people reflect by exposing issues such as the handling of animals, genetic modifications that are realized every day, the indiscriminate abuse of antibiotics, the violations that exist to the laws of immigration that affect the workers, the constant epidemics of diseases and the increasing rate of people who are obese due to the inability to buy healthy foods, the little time that they have because of their hours of work. These are just some of the aspects that Food Inc film show
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Food Inc. documentary – notes Supermarkets and corn: • Grocery store tomatoes are picked green and then ripened with ethylene gas • Most people have no idea where their food comes from – food industry doesn’t want you to know the truth about what you are eating because if you did you might not eat it • The average grocery store has 47,000 products which makes it look like there is a large variety of choice – but it is an illusion – there are only a few major companies and a few
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“Food, Inc.” is a documentary that has brought light to several issues concerning the public in the U.S. related to the food industry. Issues such as infectious disease, nutrition, and occupational health and safety are addressed. I will discuss the issue of nutrition in relation to public health in this paper addressed in this film with regards to meat farming, fast food, and genetic modification and antibiotic use in the food industry. Infectious pathogens such as E. coli have also been quieted
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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
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During the documentary Food Inc., Joel Salatin made the statement of “If we put glass walls on all the mega-processing facilities, we would have a different food system in this country”. Today, I’m going to tell you what he means by that and what my opinion on the statement is. What he meant by this statement was that people have no idea how their food is being made and what is being put in it. Also, people don’t realize how the animals are being treated. If something is out of site, it is out
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When watching the film Food Inc., one can examine film and identify the three components of a claim in the film- the grounds, warrants, and conclusions to the argument are all explicitly featured and given expansive detail. Through the use of case studies and typifying examples, director Robert Kenner is able to send a message to the audience about how real the problem is- industrialization of the food industry is killing consumers and the world that we live in, and Kenner offers ways in which we
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