Amanda Cospito

Food Inc is a documentary that investigates what is involved in our food and how corporate plays a huge role in the food we eat. The movie examine how corporates are the ones who are really in charge of the farmers and farming that is going on due to the vast people in the United States. The documentary involves stories from many different people involved or affected by the food produced in the world. The documentary showed the audience what was going on inside slaughter houses, farms, and the homes of these animals in the horrible conditions that they live in. These animals are living in poor condiitons which later effect some of the food we eat and ends up causes a recall on the product. This documentary really showed me how the coroporate care about the fastest and cheapest way to feed the people rather than the quality of the food they produce. We are eating food that is being enginneered rather than eating food that is natural and how it should be on a food chain. Does the food chain in include the food stopping for treatment to be enhanced, medication, or engineered? This documentary really opened my eyes in what we put in our bodies and how we should be aware of what we eat if it can harm ourselves and harm the animals that are going through this.

Some possible research questions:
1.) Is there a cheaper way to provde healthier organic food?
2.) How are other countries controlling their farming and products being produced?
3.) Why are the food industries/coroporate making a huge amount of money while the famers are making not as nearly as much?
4.) Are there any benfits of engineering food besides providing food faster?
5.) What are the benefits of becoming vegetarium?
6.) Is fish getting enhanced as well? What are they doing to other products?
7.) How much meat should the average American eat in a year?
8.) Hw can you tell if the food that is labeled oragnic really organic and not the regular food?
9.) How many people have been affected by some kind of health issue from the food they eat?
10.) How many animals do we harm and kill from putting them in that environment and become sick or infected by disease?

In class we began to watch the documentary of Food Inc. I have seen it prior to this class and thought it was cruel, wrong, upsetting, and shocking. First thing is i'm not a big meat eater, so at least I felt a little better but this documentary really cautioned me in what I put into my mouth everday. It's true like the movie, we don't know what is actually going on with the food we eat, the process, or what is in the food. I hear from people who have seen this movie complaining about the people in the movie and what they are doing to the animals but at the same time their the consumers of the project. So pretty much the consumers load the gun but don't actually shoot the gun. It really upsetted me when I saw the workers throwing and stepping on to the chickens and the living conditions of those chickens and hear people are eating them after those chickens have been in an unsafe and unhealthy atmosphere.
Another shocker of mine of the movie is that famers actually don't make that much money for what the corporates are making them do. They acually are only making 18,000 dollars but the unkept and debt lead into 500,000 dollars.  I didn't relaize how much the upkeep is, and the debt these famers are in. Corporate has such a huge control oer these farmers. It seems to be that the corporates just care about the quanity and not the  quality of the food they produce. They don't care about the cruely, abuse, or harm they cause as long as the money is rolling in. Then you think of eating organic food but it cost much more and when people are struggling financially they are going to buy the cheaper so they can put food on the table. Many people also are in rush and complain they don't have time to cook and its more convient to pull up to Mcdonalds drive through and say " number 4 medium with a coke please. "
I don't know its amazing to see what we really don't know about the food we eat and i guess that's why my family has farms, and we grow our own vegetables and fruits. We are able to get fresh eggs right from the chicken and go fishing for fresh fish. i love to cook and especially cook meat for others who eat it but its scary to find out what is in our foods and all of the different diseases or problems it can cause because of the production now of food. Yes, my family eats meat and does eat meat from the super market but after viewing this movie now twice I know i want to raise my own children one day to eat organically and to grow their own vegetables, where we know what is in our food and what we are putting into our bodies. Not only do i not like the fact of what it can cause for humans but the cruelity of the animals. Animals shouldnt be injected with antibiotics to grow so fast, that's not part of the living cycle. I'm sorry but this movie is upsetting, cruel, and bothers me. Well this is my input as of now with this movie and its only the beginning.