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.