A Literary Analysis Tyson Chicken

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Literary analysis When you go out to the supermarket, how often do you look at the ingredients of your product? Do you ever ask if Tyson and Perdue treat their chickens with care or if big companies take care of their workers? In the analysis of this documentary there are noticeable terms within the first few moments of the video. The first being allegory, this shows how the food world is on the brink of being controlled by 4 companies and no one can really see how big the problem of mass production really is. The second term is amplification. It’s easy to say that Tyson is a big meat company but, in reality Tyson owns other sub companies on the side. It is more of a humongous spider web than just a “big company”. Lastly, motif, this shows writers and farmers speaking up about the mass industrialization of the food industry and the treatment of their workers. Director Robert Kenner interviewed a multitude of famers and writers. The first farmer that shows in the documentary is, Richard Lobb who is a part of the National Chicken Council. Chickens have to be the same size; it’s cheaper and more effective (Lobb). They can’t use the smaller ones because who would want to buy it? The second farmer is a Tyson grower by the name of Vince Edwards. He takes the cameramen down a road with …show more content…
Monsanto is a leading provider of GMOs which are genetically modified organisms. These organisms have altered DNA to provide protection from bugs and weather. Seasonal vegetables such as tomatoes can be bought year round. Can you imagine what each person is ingesting? Customers are consuming weather resistant and pesticide ridden food. Legislators have tried to label food with GMOs and also foods that have been taken from cloned cattle or vegetables. In 2007 the SB-63 law which is the cloning label law was passed by legislature but was further vetoed by Governor

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