Food Inc: Part 1 blog

I began watching Food Inc. in class today and it shows a lot of things about food that we don't know because companies hide it to make money. So much of the industrial food that we have are rearrangements of corn. Corn can be broken down because it is one big starch, so it can make varieties of foods like: jellies, syrup, meat, and many more foods. In local grocery stores their are foods that aren't in season, yet we have them all year round, ex: tomatoes. They are injected with indafelene gas to be more plump. Along with that, a lot of the meat that is being processed happens at factories not at farms, like what we would think is happening. Chickens are being re-designed to have large breast because the demand of white meat is in demand. Chickens now are being slaughtered which makes them grow in a shorter amount of time to be "fully produced." This makes chickens carry too much weight that they cannot even bare to be on their feet. Beef is also being changed, for example the McDonalds burgers are all "fake" because they have things added to them so that each one can taste the same. There used to be several meat companies, but now there is four which make up to 80% of the production. Chicken coops, aren't really chicken coops anymore, they are more like an assembly line where no farming is being done. Companies basically "black-mail" farmers that are in debt because they need to make the best production for the company so that they can make money and get out of their debt. I honestly think this is very bad for us because it just makes us depend on "injected" foods. Like we basically do not have anything natural. This would motivate me to go and have my own farm where I can grow all my produce and meats so that i know what is in them and what is being done to them. I think it is pretty crazy how we are living our lives this way, or that it is even allowed to sell us "injected" food at our local grocery store.