EC Food Inc

Food Inc is an incredible documentary that illustrates multiple aspects of the food we eat everyday. Food Inc discusses the downside to industrialization, fast-food, as well as the unfair treatment of animals. The Film starts by outlining the inconsistencies of the infamous, modern American supermarket, where seasons do not exist and the meat has no bones. The film mentions, "...there is a deliberate veil drawn over the realities of the food production chain, which is basically a factory system, an industrialised system". Moving forward, the documentary is dedicated to explaining the downsides of this system. The film proposes that the move towards an industrial food system all began with McDonalds. The restaurant that Americans have grown to love in the past decades. The documentary highlights that when the McDonald brothers got rid of their waitresses and invented the drive through to cut costs, it caught on massively in society and started a ripple-effect. McDonald’s and other fast food restaurants expanded, and so did the growing demand for standardized food products. The film then creates a segway to explain how the food industry has met the needs of a growing consumer base. For example, Tyson, which is the largest food production company in the world has redesigned the chicken. What does this mean? The chicken now grows in half the time it used to thanks to IMO's and steroids. The film now takes the trip to the battery farm where horrendous abuse takes place, most all IMO for the chicken farmers are kept in debt by Tyson because Tyson keeps demanding they upgrade to new systems. Keeping chickens in abusive conditions proves to be very expensive! The movie Fresh has the same elements as the movie Food Inc and causes its audience to feel the same way after finishing watching it. Both films leave the audience feeling guilty as though they need to change their habits in order to create change immediately. Both films are an example of persuasive language and exhibit similar tactics to persuade their audience.