Food Inc Documentary

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This documentary shows a larger human crisis than Food, Inc. This crisis called AIDs has an impacted on every country and everyone. More deaths occurred because the drugs for treatments were illegal. This documentary can be seen as a hammer film but it had more problems and solutions than Food, Inc. In addition, the flashbacks of real footage of meetings and protects also add a kind of mirror effect. One thing that surprised me was high death rate because of AIDs. There was no much death in this time period because there were no drugs to treat this disease. The media’s coverage of HIV/AIDs showed viewers that this disease was serious and impacted on both affected and unaffected people within that society. It showed that this disease was

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