Food Inc Essay

Food INC. is a documentary from Robert Kenner who is on a mission (at least for the purpose of the documentary) to lift the veil of secrecy between the consumer, and the food industry he hopes to expose. The companies in charge that give the consumer an illusion of choice, an illusion of transparency, an illusion of rights towards food, an illusion of labor rights, and an illusion of animal rights, this is all masterfully played out, in an about 90 minutes documentary. There are harsh truths to be explored however what one might find most important is that even in the end, the customer is always right and what one might blame on the companies is partially the consumers fault for enabling the behaviors explored. For the purpose of this essay one can not say the documentary touches on everything discussed in class or even that it pertains to most topics discussed but it does speak of states laws, laws that prohibit its inhabitants to speak about what one consumes in a negative tone, how a group of companies have striped even the organizations in charge of helping the consumer of any power to do something, how the food industry thrives while the consumer gets ill, while …show more content…
Why is it then that multiple scenes in the documentary show undocumented workers working in these food-manufacturing plants? Why is it that the companies responsible have been allowed to strike deals with local law enforcement to deport some, but not all at a time, so the company can maintain there “farm factories”? Some workers have been employed or have been in the USA for more than a decade, and now are treated like scum and deported. Its these same people that worked day and night, these people who are the backbone of the American economy, who struggle and persevere for a few dollars a day to get the consumer the roll backs at