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I watched "Food.inc". This documentary movie shows us food problems all over the world.
Now, there are numerous fast food restaurants and these companies need inexpensive meat and grain.
So farmers have to change their ways of agriculture to industrial food system.
One farmer said that farmers are forced to work like slaves of enterprises.
People like hamburgers and fried potatoes because they can satisfy people's appetite cheaply.
From 2000, it has been said that a third American children are incipient diabetics.
I watched many cruel scenes in the movie. Poultry chicken farms produced large numbers of chickens and killed them as a factory.
I didn't know that corn was not adequate feed for cows. However, corn is cheaper than grass, so many farmers use corn as cow's food. So cow's stomach mutates and "O-157" was produced.
I think all food problem was produced by people fundamentally.
Recently, we can't say that all of foods that we can buy in supermarkets are safety.
It is important thing to know roots of foods, and this movie tells us it clearly.
I want to study about food problems more and choose safety products from now on.
I recommend you watching this food documentary so much.
I have more often heard the bad news related to food then before. So, I try to be careful to choose what I eat every day. All of consumers should be smart, otherwise we will shoulder some health risks.
返信削除Your synopsis of "Food, Inc" is clear and well written. It gives someone who hasn't viewed the film a very accurate picture of what it's about. You're right. The images of the cruelty in the raising of so-called broiler chickens (and egg-laying chickens as well) is difficult to watch. It can easily make someone sick to their stomach.
返信削除As the film points out, behind the cheapness of fast food, is labor exploitation, cruelty to animals, environmental destruction, and an unjust system of subsidizing meat and dairy producers but not the producers of healthy organic produce.
Minami is right when she comments that consumers have to be smart in order to make healthy choices. But they also have to be careful to make the choices that are best for society, the environment, and the rest of the world. In that sense, eating a hamburger is a political act.
I agree that animals are treated cruelly in many farms. But i also think that animal abuse comes down to a philosophical argument. It is hard to eat fast food after watching cruel videos though.
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