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Yossef M. Kassaw Biol-2001 Food Inc. Reflection 12/7/18 Extra Credit: Food Inc Refection I watched the documentary Food Inc, and what I witnessed was mind blowing. They start the movie inside of a grocery market. There they were trying to convey the idea that our food doesn’t come from the beautiful farms that are on our food packaging, in specific our meat and livestock biproducts. Instead, they were trying to show us that the food industry has turned away from those farms and switched to a much more efficient way of farming, factory farming. According to Food Inc. McDonald’s and fast food in general was the real catalyst of the transformation into industrialized farming. Once McDonald’s started reducing their menus and increasing their productivity by specializing their employees to one basic task, demand for efficient food sky rocketed and the now a day’s companies filled the void by industrializing their farms to keep up with demand. Food Inc. took us behind the manufactured curtain that the food industry tries to portray to everyone. They showed us the life of a chicken that is about to be slaughtered, and it was kind of hard to phenome. The chickens are made so fat they can barely walk more than 3 steps without flopping back down, on top of this, the chickens are gathered in masses inside of a disease infested, no sunlight chicken house. Back to the grocery store, they show us how their seems to be a great diversity in our food but whenever they tried to track down the source of their food… it kept taking them to a corn farm in Iowa. 30% of America’s land coverage is being used to grow corn. This is because of

the subsidies granted to corn and other commodity crops to push below market corn production. They then dive into the danger of disease in processed foods. After, they touch on the fact that cheap food is leading to the rise of type 2 diabetes and childhood obesity. The Finish off the movie by really showing us the strength of these large food companies. They have absolute control of the farmers they have deals with and the economically stressed grass root employees. After taking this Biol 2001 course this semester, I can’t even say the information that was laid out by Food Inc. was new to me. However, with this documentary it literally showed me images of what is going on in our food industry and how harmful it really is. The low prices seem to be the best thing that we can ask for but at this trade off, I really realized that I would be willing to pay more for whole some food and the comfort of knowing where all my ingredients came from. I believe this movie has reinforced what this course has opened my eyes to. Late in the movie the narrator compared the food industries to the tobacco industry of old. The overwhelming control and influence they had seemed unbreakable then, but now their hold on society has loosened immensely. This really gives me hope that If we really want change it comes from the masses and reform is very possible....