| | | | | Food Inc four/6/13 At school final Tuesday we watched a documentary referred to as Food Inc. This movie was an eye fixed opener for most individuals however being that I’m a sixth technology farmer I perceive how the seed, meat, and poultry firms work. This movie mentioned the issues with the meals business right this moment, and what we have to do to alter the way forward for how our meals is made and processed. Within the first part of this documentary they talked concerning the meals business as a complete and the way a lot of the meals business is ran by 4 or 5 massive industries.
This shouldn’t be how it’s ran as off proper now and right this moment these firms are monopolies and run unsafe amenities not for simply the those who work there however how the manufacturing course of is ran. This documentary additionally coated the meat is being produced in unsafe and unnatural approach. Whereas feeding cattle corn is an effective way to make them bigger faster, it nonetheless shouldn’t be the best method to feed cattle as a result of feeding them an excessive amount of corn could cause them to die due to a illness referred to as e-coli.
When cattle get this illness it generally shouldn’t be caught and the cow will get slaughtered and finally ends up on our dinner plate after which we obtain the illness by consuming the meat. This wants to alter cows have to be fed grass and hay, and shouldn’t be on a corn solely eating regimen. This movie additionally coated the poultry business and the way poultry is being grown at a really quick fee and the way the rooster homes should not protected or very sanitary. The poultry homes are sealed with no daylight. Chickens in these homes are greater and grown at a quicker fee which regularly results in loss of life and illness.
The final part of this movie talks concerning the seed company. Throughout this part they mentioned how farmers had been getting the brief finish of the stick to attempting to battle with Monsanto, which is the most important seed producing firm in America. It’s unhealthy that farmers solely have one place to go for seed for crops and after Monsanto buys all the opposite seed firms in America the place do farmers flip once they don’t have the funds to maintain operating. These farmers flip to banks for loans to purchase the seed from this firm and hopes that it’s going to produce. If that seed doesn’t produce an excellent crop farmers go bankrupt.
This documentary doesn’t state however exhibits what America’s meals business is popping into and is heading to a monopoly business. The meals business is failing as a complete and America ought to take it again by rising and elevating our personal meals. We must always rely much less on meals which can be extremely processed, and put extra again to farmers to make a brand new meals business. With out farmers America would fail. It’s like my Father all the time says “farmers constructed this nation, and solely a farmer can rebuild it”. We have to change what we’re doing to our meals, in the long run we’re solely hurting ourselves by producing poor meals high quality.
