Similar to my reading group book, "Omnivore's Dilemma", the movie "Food Inc." was a way to show the public a behind the scenes look of what goes on within food industries and how they go about producing the food that we currently eat on a daily basis. This film took a look at different stories from people whose lives were strongly affected in a negative way by food. For example, a financially struggling family finds it hard to eat healthy when better foods are more expensive than that of junky, fast food. Another story comes from a woman who lost her young child due to tainted hamburger meat.
Other points of view that are shared within the story are people within the food industry, such as farmers. I found one farmers thoughts and ideas to be very interesting. Joel Salatin, owner of Polyface Farm, an organic food market, had a lot to say defending his ways of preparing food the right way. Although animals get slaughtered either way, i have to agree with Joel Salatin when he says his way of going about slaughtering animals the "right way". His slaughterhouse is outdoors, exposed to fresh air. His animals get to run around in fresh, open space, opposed to cramped, crowded, stuffy slaughterhouses. I figure if the animals are going to be killed anyways, you might as well be humane about it and treat them good leading up to their death.
This whole situation about food really opened my eyes a lot more to what is going on behind the industry of food. I would've never really put serious thought about it before seeing this film. As far as the actual problems are concerned, I agreed with a person in the movie who compared the dilemma of food to that of the problem that used to exist with the Tobacco industry. Being that the tobacco industry no longer has a sick hold over buyers of productions like they used to, the same can happen with food after a fight takes place.
Did this film affect me in a big way? Yes, it did MENTALLY. Did it make me think about possibly changing my eating habits? No, because being that i have eaten the same basic way for my 18 years of life, why would I let other people's opinions within a film affect me in any way? I do however appreciate the goal this film had, which was to let people know what is really going on behind the scenes in food companies and how we the people could make positive change, like we did in the dilemma of the Tabacco industry.
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