Food Inc Social Issue Analysis

Upon watching Food Inc. and reading the book I can conclude that the way we eat has drastically changed. This creates a major social problems that food industries don't want us to know about. Food practices have been changed in order for companies to make profit in shorter amount of time. This created the fast food industry which make a way for food to be mass produced and not farmed. This food producing technique is made up of assembly lines which creates cheaper work and more products because workers only have to perform one repeated task over and over. This process allowed for a majority of the food we have in supermarkets today to be mass produced. However, supermarket products are extremely misleading for many reasons. For example despite the numerous varieties of food in supermarkets only three to for companies own the food that we purchase. Another example is how a prime ingredient of all of our foods is corn because scientists have created ways to manipulate the …show more content…
does not follow the natural history of the social problems process. The film does make a strong claim about our food system. They also give media coverage and public reaction by using interviews and by creating a movie. Although after the policy making the policy was vetoed which caused the policy to be ineffective and not have a future outcome to improve the new agreements on our food. In the book it states that the definition of a social problem is "A condition that can somehow harm society or is a condition that undermines the well being of society and is a public controversy" (Best, 3&4). Overall after watching this documentary I am lead to believe that this social problem with our food is an extremely controversial problem and that it is a problem that needs to be dealt with so that people as a whole in society can be healthier and can gain the right to have knowledge of what they consume on a day to day basis from seed to