Post #2: Movie review
“Food Inc”.
The movie “Food Inc” is an overview of how the food production
works in the United States these days. There are a few big corporations who have control
of the entire farming production in this country. They produce food in massive production
in a short time period by adding preservatives and pesticides to the products ,
by feeding the cows corn instead of grass as cheaper food, by using ammonia to
clean the meat, by growing animals in terrible conditions, and by treating
workers unfairly and putting our health
in big risk.
Something that impacts me the most is how the chickens and
cows stand for their entire life in tiny spaces where they are unable to move.
The chickens don’t have light so they can sleep and eat more for faster grow,
then, the animals are slaughtered right away for business purpose, having a
miserable life. The movie shows how chickens die constantly for the inability
of exercise that even the owner of the coop was getting sick, because of
exposure to the unhealthy conditions of the chicken coops.
My biggest concern and what worried me the most, is that our
health is jeopardized when we continue eating everything that is available at
markets and restaurants without knowing where they come from. In the movie, we
saw that many corporations used pesticides to kill other herbs, put many
preservatives and trans fat in food so that it wouldn’t go bad, used corn syrup
on many products as a cheap substitute for sugar, and used ammonia to package
the meat so it would be clean. These
actions are causing many health issues among the public. We have already seen that
people are paying consequences with more health issues than ever before like
obesity, high cholesterol, high blood pressures, heart disease, diabetes,
cancer and more. The part of the movie that had the biggest impact on me was
the case of the child who died by eating a burger that wasn’t cleaned properly,
as well as the many cases of E-coli that we see in the news all the time, and the
obesity and health issues that arise from unhealthy eating.
It is important to change our behaviors in our lifestyle by
being conscious of what we eat. We need to go back to traditional diets and
cook more at home, eat seasonal foods, buy from local farmers, grow our own
vegetables, and avoid fast food and packaged foods that that may carry many
chemicals and preservatives that will harm our health.
I definitely recommend this movie to everyone and urge them
on the importance of caring for our health by making responsible choices in
what we buy, and what we eat.
