Food Inc is an amazing documentary on our food production. There’s a lot of slaughterhouse footage at the start, and a very creative shot of the supermarket. A large part of the documentary is how produce gets to the markets as well.
I learned that most of our junk food is corn. How mass production of corn led to really non-nutritious foods to be cheaper, and widely consumed. These foods have calories, but they do not have vitamins.
This documentary makes it clear how most of our food is...
Food Inc is an amazing documentary on our food production. There’s a lot of slaughterhouse footage at the start, and a very creative shot of the supermarket. A large part of the documentary is how produce gets to the markets as well.
I learned that most of our junk food is corn. How mass production of corn led to really non-nutritious foods to be cheaper, and widely consumed. These foods have calories, but they do not have vitamins.
This documentary makes it clear how most of our food is owned by only a few companies, and how they are controlling, and scaring everyone. A huge part of it is discussing law making. There is this mother of a child who ate 3 hamburgers, and then died from getting sick. She is speaking up for people so that such accidents don’t happen.
Unhealthy food companies love to get out laws which obscure, and remove the knowledge from the consumers, they remove the labels, the ingredient lists to “not scare the people”. We increasingly became more ignorant about our food, and where it comes from, who is behind it. Companies feed cows corn even though they do not naturally eat it so they develop complications. It gets shown how unsanitary, crowded, and faeces filled murder production is.
This documentary really shows how companies have these farmers on leashes, and how they do not care about their health, safety - they actively put them in debts, and pretty much own them. Just speaking up about anything can put you in court, these companies can sue you just for fun because they can.
I loved seeing organic producers, and that there was an alternative to supermarkets. This is a 2008 documentary, so I wonder how anyone would make a similar one, and what information would be focused more on. This was brilliant, and I want to read the books of the authors which were featured. In a way I see a lot of the same authors everywhere which I suppose showcases how niche vegan academia still is which I don’t like. I definitely need to get more into it to understand or say anything about that tho haha.
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