Food Inc.: Where Does Our Food Come From?

Where does our food come from? Food Inc. by Robert Kenner shows us how big corporations are changing the game in the food market. Companies today care more about being efficient and do not care who or what is effected by it. Meat is being grown at a record pace, and processed and sold even faster. This movie takes a look behind the scene of the food market and how major players and growing their profits and lowering their bottom dollar. Food Inc. goes behind the scenes into different corporations packing plants and slaughter houses to show us what is really going on, and it is not what you would think. Technology is helping these companies like Tyson to be more efficient by alternating the meat of poultry and not taking a look at the health factors is displaces on its users. For example, chickens now take 47 days to mature which has dramatically dropped compared to chickens in the 50’s which took about 70 days. These chickens are growing so fast that some cant walk and even have broken legs. When a Carol Morrison, a chicken producer for Purdue, let the camera into her chicken house the findings where horrific. Chickens couldn't move and where covered in there own feces. Carol also had to pick up the
Lawsuits are sometimes filled and employees terminated if the company feels threatened. Employees are also terminated if they expose how the animals are produce. Carol Morrison was soon let go of Purdue after her interview with the Food Inc. producers. These big corporations need help to get exposed and I think the movie Food Inc. did and is doing a great job doing that. Before watching the movie I had no idea where my food was coming from nor how it was being treated and after watching it I am a lot more careful on who to give my business too and the everyday consumer should be to. Supporting these big corporations is feeding the inhumane treatment of animals and the technology to help construct