Food Inc. By Robert Kenner: Documentary Analysis

In the documentary Food Inc; directed by Robert Kenner, Kenner shows us that these big businesses and fast food industries have completely taken over the food industry. Kenner further explains that these business have a tight grip on farmers and control how they grow their livestock and plants. Kenner then shedded light to the flaws with the current food industries and showed us why we should be concerned since it directly relates to us. For example, the flaws that Kenner addressed about our current food industry directly affects our physical health, environmental health and social health. The manner in which the Food Industry is controlled nowadays by these enormous businesses has a direct impact on our physical health. Our physical health relates to our own health and has to do with how healthy we are physically and also our body’s ability to heal and resist illnesses. But as we saw in the film the practices that many farmers utilize aren’t the best for us since many of that animals …show more content…
For example, in the documentary it was brought up to light that these huge and rich businesses often hire cheap immigrant workers then after a few years they simply report them to immigration and deport those workers. Then they process starts all over again. This has a clear effect on our social health since we may be directly affected it by it since those people are people in society that have friends, families and relationships and they may tarnished due to the food industry's actions. In the documentary, it was also shown that these huge corporations try to implement three addictive substances with our food so we can buy. The three substances are salt, fat and sugar. These substances aren’t necessarily health and therefore they affect all of society since we are constantly consuming them. It’s quite obvious that the food industry affects our social health in a negative