Critical Review of Food Inc

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Subject Area:Religion

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The film reviews that the food production is vicious, financially and naturally unjustifiable. The movie examines both the financial and legal powers possessed by today’s large food production companies. The movie thereby revolves around the food production process (Flowers, Rick and Elaine, 234). Before the Green and Greener revolution, families could solely provide for themselves and exercised self-sustaining farming. However, technology advancement introduced the concept of mass food production. First, the film reviews that traces of corns are available in most of the products in Northern American grocery supplies (Flowers, Rick and Elaine, 240). Corn is thereby found in all processed food unless stated otherwise. Moreover, humans ingest traces of corns in the form of meat. As industries feed corns to animals, being cheaper, easier to grow and capable of being mass produced, meat from such animals contains corns nutrition (Lindenfeld, 378).

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The absorption of corn into the humans’ body is usuary disastrous as the corn produces immunity to various antibodies thus increasing the potential risks of specific allergies in the body. At this moment, the large enterprises pay off their farmers to produce animals in large volumes within short periods, while making them more prominent. This forces farmers to apply unethical methods in raising the animals. Moreover, animals are fed with the food that they are not naturally meant to feed on. These include corns, steroids and other products, which are used to fasten the growth rate of the animals (Lindenfeld, 390). For instance, the film gives an example of chicken production, which are grown in half the time of natural growth, and with the use of such chemicals.

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The big corporations take advantage of the consumer unawareness and use cheaper but more harmful chemicals to boost the growth of the animals. This is what is referred to as false food advertising. The film outline reviews that consumers fail to inquire about the ingredients used in processing the food they eat as they lack self-responsibility measures (Kenner et al. , np. To hide the components of their products, corporations use deceptive advertising strategies to represent the food they sell as healthy for human consumption. Work cited Flowers, Rick, and Elaine Swan. "‘Eating at us’: Representations of knowledge in the activist documentary film Food, Inc. " Studies in the Education of Adults 43. Kenner, Robert, R. Kenner, and E. : A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It.

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