Five sources

The five links that I decided to use in my revised essay.
1.http://www.healthywyze.org/index.php/fertilizer-dangers.html
 this link will help me to know and write about the senthetic fertilizer and their effects on foods and human body.
2.http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs225/en/
this link is about the dioxine used on vegetables and how they effect in human body.
3.http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/pesticides.htm
this site is about the pasticide on fruit and vegetables and their bad effects.
4.Book: Fast Food Nation- Eric Schlosser
this book will help me write about the secret of American food Industry and how they captured American people's diet.
5.Article: Unhappy Meals-Michael Pollan-New York Times
this artical will help me write about what we should eat and what we should not

Food Inc reading response

                                                           Food Inc

       In Food Inc, film maker Robert Kenner tried to display our nation’s food industry. He actually tried to expose the highly mechanized food processing system that has been hidden from consumers with the help of our government’s regularity agencies USDA and FDA. The nation’s food supply is now mainly controlled by some corporations that are making profit ahead of customer’s health, the American farmers, the safety of workers and the environment. Even though we have bigger-breasted chickens, perfect pork chop and insecticide resistant soybean seeds, we have E. coli- the harmful bacteria that cause illness and death.

 In this documentary film, we saw how cows, pigs and chickens are growing very faster in the factory by getting high caloric chemical based foods and antibiotics. Chickens we saw grown in a factory could not walk and its organs barely worked but never seen daylight. Caretaker pushed the food in a fantastic way directly to the cow’s stomach, so it does not matter if a cow wanted to eat food or not. Farmers sometimes do not want to do that but they are being under control by the food corporation. The owner of the chicken farm (the lady) said that they are (farmers) treated by companies like slaves. Farmers didn’t even open their mouth to anyone. The author and co-producer Eric Schlosser went through a supermarket and said that most of the colorful variety foods stuffs come from five corporations like Tyson, Farmland or Smithfield that now control 80 percent of the food market in the USA.

       The industry does not want you to know the truth about what you eat by getting their foods. Barbara Kowalcyk lost her 2- year-old little son Kevin because the boy ate food (hamburger). Kevin was infected by E. coli bacteria and died 16 days after he ate two E. coli bacteria infected hamburgers. Yet, if Barbara knew about the food she gave her son, she might not lose her son forever. Barbara now is an activist and she carried a picture of Kevin with her when she lobbies on Capital Hill.

        Producer Robert Kenner introduced us to a low income family buying burger from a fast food drive-way that makes real economic sense to me. It is cheaper to buy double burger with soda instead of buying the non-subsidized head of broccoli or an apple. Yet there is that hidden childhood obesity and incident of diabetes for adult. The real fact is that low-income persons like the introduced family who know the fact about the effect of fast food, but they have no choice.

     We know the organic foods are good for us, but are those affordable for everybody in the USA? Joel Salatin, a farmer who tries to help people by producing organic foods in his own farm. The good thing is that, he is an independent farmer. The government never subsidizes for his farm to sell the food in cheaper prize but the government always subsidized a lot for all the food processing companies to make their foods cheaper. The most interesting thing is that, the government tried to close Joel’s farm because they think he made the environment polluted by processing chicken in an open house.

         In conclusion, even though the film Food Inc scared me about the processed food, it gave me an excellent opportunity to know the hidden information about the food. This film made me think about what I should eat and what I should not eat. What I learn from this film is that we need to think about our health before make food choice.

     

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