1. The huge food industries and companies are manipulating and controlling this industrial food chain where they hinder the dark truth from the consumers for their profits. We are being neglected of the information in the products sold in the marketplace and fast-food chains so we continue to fall for these cheap subsidized products that are destroying our health and the environment. The animals in the feedlots are treated as things than living things, letting them live in close dirty quarters in their manure, being fed subsidized corn and grain that are not meant to be eaten by these animals. Consumers and farmers who voice an opinion or take an action that can affect these corporation’s sales can get sued-causing many people to give up halfway because of the costs for court fees. The meats we eat are sprayed in ammonia to kill E. coli and the soybeans are being grown in chemical infested soil full of antibiotics. We are also too dependent on a scarce source of petroleum; some already predict that the ‘peek oil’ will be in the years 2011-2012. We need to make more efforts to change the U.S. food policies, for the goal of changing the high hospital rates for obesity and diabetes.
2. I liked both the movie and the book because they provided different ways of helping me become more aware and conscious about our food ways. The book gave a lot of information with lots of details. I liked the book more in ways that there was a little story for some of these chapters that made me feel more upset about the mistreatments of the feedlot animals. The movie on the other hand, provided intense visuals that made me feel disgusted and sick which helped me further realize the dangers we are so involved in. For example, in chapter 4, The Feedlot the book describes in depth about CAFO’s and the process of how the cows are being fed to later be slaughtered. This helped me raise my knowledge, but what really made me sick was when actually watching the factories visually. I’m really glad I read the book before watching the movie though, because it helped me connect the text to the visuals.
3. I always thought I knew how unhealthy fast-foods were, but I didn’t realize this whole industrial system regarding food. It’s a shock that as a society most people don’t give second thoughts about the products on the market’s shelves, because we put other priorities before food-which is exactly what the government and huge corporations wants us to do. The ones in huge powers know the dangerous affects of their mass production and it’s scary how far people are willing to go for huge profits. Even if I watch the movie or read the book many more times I can’t help but ask, “Why?” Why are we so ignorant about food when we should have the right to know what’s going in our bodies? I know the answer is because the huge powers don’t want us to know, but it’s frustrating and hard to believe still. It’s not easy to change the system, but I think that it would work better if more people know what they’re eating and where it’s coming from. There’s nothing in this food system that can be justified, so more people should know and make the right decisions.
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