FOOD
FOOD, Inc.
– An Inconvenient truth
YOU’LL NEVER LOOK AT DINNER THE SAME WAY AGAIN
Pooja Nambiar 10200286
Athira Pulikkal Shibu 10200293
Akash Suresh Kumar 10200486
Shanto Thomas Thankachan 10200446
Gibson Varghese 10
SYNOPSIS
I Introduction
II Content
III Documentary description
IV Research ; Findings
V Conclusion
VI Bibliography
Introduction –
Food, Inc. is a 2008 American documentary film directed by filmmaker Robert Kenner. The film examines corporate farming in the United States, concluding that agribusiness produces food that is unhealthy, in a way that is environmentally harmful and abusive of both animals and employees. The film is narrated by Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser.
Link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KpaKi3IOJs
Crew:
Directed by Robert Kenner
With Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser, Gary Hirschberg and Joel Salatin
The documentary film focuses on the farming in the United States which includes the industrial production of animal meat (beef, pork and chicken) and by-products and as well as the production of some crops such as corn and soy bean. The documentary film examines the unethical, inhumane and unhealthy production processes of these commodities and its possible impact on the consumers, environment and well as those who are involved in the production process.
Content –
The film’s first section looks at the mechanical creation of meat (chicken, hamburger, and pork), calling it obtuse and monetarily and earth unsustainable. The second section takes a gander at the modern creation of grains and vegetables (principally corn and soy beans), again naming this monetarily and naturally unsustainable. The film’s third and last fragment is about the monetary and legitimate power, for example, nourishment marking controls, of the real sustenance organizations, the benefits of which depend on providing modest yet tainted nourishment, the substantial utilization of oil based synthetic compounds (to a great extent pesticides and manures), and the advancement of undesirable nourishment utilization propensities by the American open. It demonstrates organizations like Wal-Mart progressing towards natural nourishments as that industry is blasting in the ongoing wellbeing development.
Interviews –
• Patricia Buck
• Diana DeGette
• Vince Edwards
• Phil English
• Gary Hirshberg
• Larry Johnson
• William P. Kealey
• Barbara Kowalcyk
• Richard Lobb
• Carole Morison
• Gonzalez Family
• Moe Parr
• Eduardo Peña
• Stephen R. Pennell
• Michael Pollan
• Michael Renov
• Eldon Roth
• Troy Rousch
• David Runyon
• Joel Salatin
• Eric Schlosser
• Rosa Soto
• Allen Trenkle
Research –
The issue returns to the 1950s, when government enactment financed American corn to unreasonable levels, tilting both the American and world economy, changing dietary patterns and business designs. Corn syrup, specifically, is a fixing in unhealthy, low-sustenance lousy nourishments that have made the heftiness scourge. Corn is full into creatures that were not advanced to eat it, advancing the development of E. coli microscopic organisms and requiring anti-microbials that are passed on to accidental buyers. Given that one drive-thru food ground sirloin sandwich may include meat from truly a huge number of steers, the impacts are inevitable. A bunch of organizations – like Monsanto, Perdue and Tyson – direct the standards to a nourishment industry and their previous representatives hold occupations as government administrators, where they push for less as opposed to more control. Rather than making nourishment creation more secure and more beneficial and more sympathetic, the inverse is by all accounts occurring.
The film additionally offers a photo of the quick human cost of mechanical sustenance generation. Barbara Kowalcyk, a Republican-supporting mother, whose two-year-old child discharged to death in the wake of eating an E. coli-polluted burger, has been on an eight-year battle to give the U.S. Branch of Agriculture the ability to close down plants that deliver polluted meats. An Indiana rancher, who has some expertise in the deep rooted procedure of cleaning seeds from refuse for one year from now’s yield, is dogged by concoction mammoth Monsanto, guaranteeing his business encroaches on the patent of their hereditarily designed soy seeds, which have debased the state’s soy edit. A poor Hispanic family, in which the guardians work from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., takes their immature girls out for a Burger King breakfast. The junk food is less expensive than crisp products of the soil, and the mother needs to spare cash for the dad’s diabetes pharmaceutical.
In numerous zones, Food Inc. could be blamed for being a junk food form of a narrative – it’s wherever on the double, skipping over the surface of an immense subject, and adding pieces of sweetness to the startling filler.
There’s an enchanting rancher, Joel Salatin, visiting obligingly about the morals of cultivating while at the same time gutting chickens outside on his homestead in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. He, as well, kills creatures for nourishment, however the contrasts between his homestead and the everyday ruthlessness of manufacturing plant ranches are immense. Stonyfield Farm’s yogurt maker Gary Hirschberg advocates the intensity of shopper decision, and shows how even the much-attacked Wal-Mart has turned into a partner in offering quality nourishment. He concedes a portion of his old earthy person companions are stunned, however citing Voltaire (everybody in this film is strikingly well-spoken), he takes note of that the “ideal is the foe of the great.”
The narrative film raised a decent contention which may perhaps place shoppers in a quandary of in the case of picking what is shoddy and advantageous or solid and condition neighborly. An expansive part of the US populace inclines toward delicious, quick and ease nourishments, as such, sparing and helpful. In any case, as appeared in the narrative film, these items which are regularly considered as advantageous and sparing are really those which are likewise unfit for human utilization and in the meantime, not condition well disposed. As found in the narrative film, the mechanical generation of meat (chicken, hamburger and pork) and also grains and vegetables are done in cold-hearted and unfortunate way. By giving up wellbeing principles, the agribusiness organizations guarantee their benefit by having minimal effort deliver.
The two creatures and vegetables are encouraged with synthetics which are far too a long way from which are viewed as fit for human utilizations. These are done to guarantee that these creatures and vegetables develop sufficiently quick to take care of the demand of the populace. Beside the manures nourished to the grains and vegetables, they are likewise splashed with pesticide to guarantee that they are tastefully engaging the purchasers.
Moreover, the impacts of these synthetically encouraged buyer merchandise does concern the devouring open as well as and in addition those which are straightforwardly associated with the generation procedure and additionally the earth. The long haul introduction on specific sorts of pesticides hazardously affects human body which is displayed through unusual creation of hormones, for example, Thyroid-empowering hormone (TSH) and Thyroid Peroxidase (TPO). Also, a few synthetic substances may result to de – masculinisation by expanding the testosterone level of the male presented to these synthetic concoctions.
Findings –
Our disconnect from nature
• Modern American supermarkets have on average 47000 products which creates illusions of diversity
Scale of Food production
• McDonalds is one of the biggest buyers of ground beef, pork, chicken, lettuce, tomatoes, and potatoes in US and Canada
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Systemic Abuse
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Government Failures
We can make a difference
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