HW#10

            Food Inc. focuses on the major food corporations that process meat, vegetables and supply fast food restaurants. The movie’s intention is to show the audience the secrets and the lies about how our food is made and where it comes from. Some specific parts show us the production of the food and the corruption of the people who run these companies as well as those who inspect mandate the promotion of these products. Within this, we learn a lot about the conditions that animals are “raised” in as well as slaughtered. A couple of the most important focuses is the overproduction of food for a very low price that only benefits the supplier and the filth that we are being fed on a daily basis without have the slightest idea where the food came from and the process of it getting to your plate.

           For myself, I feel as if watching the movie gave a certain level of detail that the book cannot give and vice versa. On one hand, having a visual gives you an exact image of what happens while the text leaves the image to your imagination but also gives you immense details that you may not pick up from the image. 

           After having read Fast Food Nation and watched this movie, I have reached an impasse in which my former ideology and the new are being pitted against each other. Having been raised eating meat and hamburger from fast food restaurants, it is difficult to imagine myself taking the extra step to eat a lot healthier and a lot harder to see myself not eating meat in any way. But having seen where the food comes from and the dreadful environment in which it is produced makes me never want to eat meat again. These two opposing ideas now hang over my head whenever I decide what to eat and force me to look past the façade of our industries and become aware of the lies we are told.