Food Inc

Food Inc brings out the issues that no one dares to touch. There are many laws as we have seen in the video that can affect you personally, but in Food Inc brings these issues to life. After watching this video I think I that my perception on food has just been flipped. Its videos like this that make me want to just turn into a vegetarian, but at the same time the lifestyle that I have lived up to this point in time will be hard to change.

When watching one issue that was brought to my attention is the monopoly of meat in our world today. With the fast food industries running everything from beef, pork, chicken, potatoes, and even apples. With this being controlled by monopolies you would think if you don’t eat their food you want be affected right, WRONG. All the products produces are affected by these monopolies. In order to make all the meats taste the same everything has to be combined into one, and while monopolies get what they want, I guess you can say is the meat that we eat is sloppy seconds.

This brings me to my next point of how these industries handle themselves in our society. Though these industries may create jobs, it is also causing conflict between those hurt and those in power. In the beginning African Americans took these jobs, but as time goes on we see outsourcing happening which creates cheaper labor. Illegal immigrants are brought into work, which is seen as acceptable because it’s cheap and they’re not doing anything else besides prepping the meat for American consumers to eat. The thing that I find funny is how this continues to happen, but the meat industries continue to devalue these workers. In Food Inc. they say that the pigs that were being bread were more of a value to them than their workers.

To sum all this up I can use one ward CAPITALISM. Capitalism is defined in the Webster dictionary “an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market” (Wester, 2010). Seeing that we are brought up in a capitalistic society people fell that its only right to have every aspect of life based on it. Which bring me to my last statement of only the strong will survive and if our society keeps on this pace its only a matter of time till our life expectancy declines and we continue to die off earlier than expected.