Food, Inc

The film Food Inc, pointed out the food industry keep the farmers from letting them grow their own products.  The farmers have to keep up with the food industry, so whatever they say goes. Therefore, the farmer can't mention how they treat their animals.  So what we eat is kept a secret because if were to find out how our food is made, people won’t buy it any more.  Most of the famers chickens never seen sunshine; they raise a cow to eat corn. The chickens and cows get tortured while they are in the slaughter houses.  In the pen house, chickens are fed with stereos. This makes them grow too fast and can’t walk no more.  These farmers have small amount of land to produce a lot of food.  We treat animals like I -it instead of I or shall, we want to control how things are, we don’t let it be “God” creation. It’s more about moving fast and getting things done. Instead of what’s really being fed to the people.

Watching the movie gave me more of the bigger picture then book.  In Omnivores Dilemma, it provided more of another person view and in Food Inc gave us the ability to see it ourselves. While reading the book it mentioned on a farm, manure would be a source of fertility.  At a CAFO like poky becomes it’s on toxic waste. While in the movie it showed us cow’s walking in their own manure, and they have small space to move around. What stay triggered in my thoughts was how one of the famers mentioned we try to control things instead of learning more about the animals its self. I would like to change my meat eating habits, be more aware of how the meat looks and think about what’s really in this chicken or beef I’m eating. This can help me cut down from eating meat every day to let’s just eat meat three times a week  and one out of my three meals only could be meat.