Documentary Analysis: Food, Inc.

Analyzing the situation question 3, the players in Food, Inc. are the consumers, producers, political figures, and the farmers. Most of the consumers, including me are left naïve about where our food is coming from. Even though we are left in the dark, we as consumers are keeping the producers in business. The producers are cutting cost by finding loopholes in how they manufacture our food, loopholes like employing and exploiting illegal immigrants, feeding our beef, corn, and using ammonium hydroxide in the food processing system. Another player in this documentary is the political figures or our government. These political players are making the loopholes legal for the producers. Essentially, they make these loop holes legal by writing laws …show more content…
documentary is argumentative in many different ways. The first argument that was raised in the documentary is the way local farmers grow and butcher their animals. These monopolizing companies try to say that the local farmer’s methods are more harmful to consumers. The local farmer in the documentary proved this point wrong by having a college come and test to see how many CFU’s his chickens had compared to the monopolizing companies like Perdue and Tyson. The other argument raised was to take our meat back to what it originally was grass fed and hormone free meat production. Many big name beef companies do not allow their cows to feed on grass, but are corn fed. These cows have bacterial problems in their stomachs caused by eating the corn, which leads to disease and sickness. The cows are left standing knee high in their own feces so that if one cow gets sick it usually ends up affecting them all. Another argument voiced in Food, Inc. was the deals the government makes with these companies like Smithfield, Monsanto, and etc... Smithfield employs illegal immigrants and exploits them in dangerous working conditions so as to get the cheapest price for labor. The immigration department has made deals with Smithfield to deport only a small percentage in a certain time frame so as not to mess up their production line. Some of the executives of the company Monsanto were on the Bush and Clinton administration, helping the FDA, …show more content…
It showed that we as Americans have a choice about what we feed ourselves and that this nation belongs to us as the people. We choose what we buy when we go to the store, but we also can affect the market by not buying certain items or not going to certain fast food joints. This song works to bring a good conclusion to the documentary, it is a call to action for the