Food Inc Reflection

Food Inc. brought up some things that I never knew happened in the food industry. To some extent I knew that corporations had something to do with the harvesting of different foods like meat and vegetables, but corporations controlling farms, was never once a thought in my mind. One thing I thought was interesting was how companies were feeding chickens a special type of food that would make them bigger faster. Like one farmer said, would you want to wait 3 months or 49 days for a chicken to reach maturity. Just in that statement alone it showed the control but apparently he was speaking a little too much. As the “interview” went on he had to stop because he was giving to much information about how companies are ruling farmers with an iron thumb.

            Another interesting fact I thought is how companies are letting farmers borrow money for chicken houses like $500,000 for constant upgrades but in all reality all the farmers really make is $18,000 a year. So it’s like will farmers ever be able to get away from corporate control, unless they decided to go completely organic, or will the always be treated as the one farmer called it, slaves. I was glad that someone actually decided to tell the truth in what was really going happening on chicken farms, like how corporations are basically designing chickens so that it would speed up production because in reality all they really care about it efficiency, and even if a chicken is sick or has some type of disease the pickers from the companies still use the chicken to be processed.