Food Inc.

Notes for Reflection

Interesting Questions

The way we eat has changed more in the Are idea of food is an allusion- but
last 15yr than in the last 1000yr he's saying that our idea of food is
Modern supermarket has 47000 products from afar when it's not
and there are no seasons You want to find out the owner of
Meat is being processed through factories your food
and it make the food much more Why is E. coli so dangerous and
dangerous how many plants and animal have
Multinational - a company anchored in one E. coli?
company but has stores in different Why do so many people have
countries type 2 diabetes?
Companies don't want farmers talking Why do they want to keep
You can eat food all your life without never chickens in the dark?
knowing where it come Why do people eat bad food?
McDonalds was the creator of the drive
through and created the kitchen factory
(assembly line)
Unskilled labor means you get paid less,
and lowers the cost of products
In 1970 the major corporations only
controlled 25% to day the top 4 control
more than 80% of the food market. And
the same thing is happening in pork
Birds are now raised in half the time as
they were and they are twice as big
There are no longer producing chickens
they are producing food so they all have to
be the same size
The chicken industry helped a whole
community out.
Chickens never see sunlight they are in
the dark all the time
They were supposed to show them the
inside of his chicken coop the the Tyson
representatives told him not to
Tyson declined to be interviewed or filmed
Farmers don't want to talk because they
want money
Its disgusting the way they live; they can't
keep up with the weight they are carrying
because they have been make really fat.
The chickens are immune to antibiotics
because of the food they eat
The companies keep the farmers under
 their farm with duets. that's how they keep
farmers under control
Carlos contract was terminated when she
refused to change her chicken coop to a
dark coop.
200 bushels per hacor
30% of the US is Corn
they are getting paid to overproduce
Encourage farmers to grow as much corn
as possible
Engineering food so that they can taste
better
Corn is an ingredient in so many items
Corn is fed to cattle, pigs, and farmed fish.
Because of corn they have brought down
the price of meat
Corn is sold at a fraction of what's it costs
to grow
Cows are not supposed to eat corn they
are supposed to eat grass but corn makes
them fat
High corn diet makes them have more E.
coli
Animals eat and poop in the same place
Factories get animals covered in manure
E. coli is not just in meet they are in
spinach and greens to.
In 1972 the FDA the county around 50,000
inspections, in 2006 the FDA conducted
9,164
There are only 13 slaughterhouses in
America but before there were tons of
smaller slaughterhouses all over

CAFO concentrated animal feeding

operations

Ground beef is very dangerous

E. coli is very very dangerous it can kill

people

The USDA said they didnt have the

authority to shut down the plant

USDA They made it a law that if you failed

 multiple testes them you would be shut
down

Kevins law would give back the USDA

power to shut downs plants that
repeatedly produce contaminated meat

You could get rid of E. coli if you changed

their diet back to grass instead of corn

They control all plants sites all over the

country from one room

Hemberger meat filer thats been cleansed

with ammonia to kill E. coli

Its cheaper to buy junk food than healthy

food

The lower the income the more obese you

are

Three tastes are fat, salt, sugar

Animal farms (factories) can feed their

cows corn, cows, and minuwer

all the workers are coming from100m

diameter

big companys recruited immigrant

workers

the government is cracking down on the

immigrants not the companys

workers are getting arrested

organics are becoming more popular even

from Walmart

you can patent life

Monsanto produce pesticides and a ton of

 other very bad things

In 11 years it became illegal to save their

best seeds

Seed saving would mean they would save

their best seeds for the next years crops

If a farmer saved there seeds they would

go to jail

People can get their crops GMO infected

Monsanto is going after the seed cleaner

because they think its stealing their
property

Lots of people in Monsanto have power so

they can go agents the farmers and
workers

People try to fight GMO and other things

like trans fats and calories counts but they
always win

If people say there is something bad in the

food people can get sued

Oprah won the case but only because she

used 1 million dollars

Crops are less diverce but there is more of

it

Oil and farming are intertwined food and

oil prices and linked

The media helps people learn about the

problems in the food world

You can vote to change the sysim three

times a day

The average meal traves 1500 miles

 Action?

Through the eyes of a film maker

Multinational
h&m, McDonalds, burger king, forever 21, apple, wendies, kfc, walmart, target, churches
chicken, DariyQueen, Starbucks, A&W, Subway, Safeways, Chopotlay, fresh slice, little ceasers,
milestonse, cosco, subero, boston pizza, honda, hodi, toyota, neson, mercadies, cocacola,
pepsi, wightspot, nike, amsung, microsoft, masda, mistubishe, staples, volvo, yama, budwiser,
ferari, buic, staliansuns, cheverlay, LG, Dennies, Bell, Google