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Food Inc Summary: Supermarkets and Corn

Food Inc. examines the hidden realities of the modern food system. It reveals how corn and soybeans have become dominant crops due to subsidies and are now found in most processed foods. Animals are treated like manufactured products and raised in confined conditions, which spreads disease. The film also shows how industrialization has made tomatoes and other foods available year-round but with less nutrition. It calls for policy changes to make organic foods more affordable and curb the influence of big agriculture on public health.

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Food Inc Summary: Supermarkets and Corn

Food Inc. examines the hidden realities of the modern food system. It reveals how corn and soybeans have become dominant crops due to subsidies and are now found in most processed foods. Animals are treated like manufactured products and raised in confined conditions, which spreads disease. The film also shows how industrialization has made tomatoes and other foods available year-round but with less nutrition. It calls for policy changes to make organic foods more affordable and curb the influence of big agriculture on public health.

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FOOD INC SUMMARY

Food Inc. opens in an American supermarket and draws attention to the unnatural nature of year-
round tomatoes and boneless meat. It pulls aside the curtain that is concealing the truth about food
from the consumer.

We are what we eat, and this is an informative documentary that exposes some disturbing yet
not exactly unknown truths about the food industry in the USA AND whole world and shows
how vital it is for people to start consuming natural/organic products in order to live healthy.

Supermarkets and Corn

Corn is one of the Western World’s main vegetable. It was used simply for edible purposes until
the last couple decades. Today, surrounding issues concerning how society utilizes corn. One
issue, according to the movie Food, Inc., exists in nearly all of the products in North America’s
grocery stores. Most processed foods, unless clearly stated otherwise, contains corn-based syrup.

Farmers are producing so much corn that food scientists had to come up with uses for it.Food
scientist have also spent a lot of time reengineering our foods – so they last longer on grocery
store shelves and don’t get stale. A food scientist in the movie said he would guess that 90% of
the processed food products in the grocery store contain either a corn or soybean ingredient and
most of the time they contain both.

At the supermarket, candy, chips and soda are all cheaper than produceThose snack calories are
cheaper because the commodity crops like corn, wheat, and soybeans are heavily subsidized.

Example given There are no seasons in the American supermarket. Now there are tomatoes all
year round, grown halfway around the world, picked when it was green, and ripened with
ethylene gas. Although it looks like a tomato, it's kind of a notional tomato. I mean, it's the idea
of a tomato.

Director Kenner says :Food, Inc. started to come together, we realized that most of the food in
the supermarket had become industrialized just like fast food. Then we realized there's
something going on out there that supersedes foods. Our rights are being denied in ways that I
had never imagined. And it was scary and shocking.
Cows and beef

When mass production of meat occurs. Previously, animals were slaughtered purely for a
family’s meat from there farm. The large problem with genetically modifying animals maintains
that is against nature’s process. With this type of new farming that appeals to the mass
population, the system where animals are treated. One technique they used was doing an
animation of cows on conveyer belts going into a factory to be processed. This shows how they
are treated like manufactured items, rather than animals that we get our meats from.

Today, McDonald’s is the largest purchaser of beef and potatoes in the United States, and is one of
the largest purchasers of pork, chicken, tomatoes, and apples and they want their food to taste
same everywhere, so they have great influence on the system.

Barbara Kowalcyk, whose son, Kevin, ate a hamburger and died 12 days later from E. coli. This
harmful strain of E. Coli, that didn’t used to be in the world, is now a problem E. Coli is even in
spinach and apple juice because of the run off from factory farms
The spread of diseases and health problems linked to animals being kept in appalling conditions.
Includes children dying of E.coli, and the companies responsible being allowed to carry on
producing.

Chickens are a prime example, because they are grown in half the time, and with many
chemicals.

Conclusion

Food, Inc. exposes the unfortunate reality to the current food industry. It tackles the
FDA, food safety, food production, factory farming, and other food matters. We also need
changes at the policy level so organic foods are more affordable than junk foods.The tobacco
industry had huge control over public policy and it is the perfect model on how an industry’s
irresponsible behavior was changed

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