Food Inc

Gus Arias

4/27/15

Purchasing & Menu Planning

Food Inc.

Food Inc. is a documentary that reveals how the food industry works and the few companies that own the majority of the products you see at your local supermarket. The documentary incorporates interviews of farmers owned by these large companies and self employed farmers for comparison purposes, he uses vivid images and sounds of animals being mistreated and video clips of the Kevin Kowalyck, (the 2 and a half year old that died of E.Coli) to evoke the cause awareness.

The interviews of the people that are directly affected everyday by this flawed food industry system that we have in place today are the most crucial parts of the film. It gives the audience an opportunity to step into those people’s shoes, and really get a sense of how their lives have been negatively affected by these large companies that own the majority of the products. The first two interviewees were chicken farmers who worked for Tyson and Purdue, the two largest meat packing company in the world today. The first farmer who worked for Tyson wanted to show the public specifically how the company wanted to raise his chickens, but moments later he backed out because Tyson threated to take matters due to contract violation. The point of this interview was demonstrate how skeptical these large companies are about showing the public how their chickens are really raised. The second interviewee was a woman that worked for Purdue, another company that is widely for meatpacking, and in this interview the farmer was not afraid to violate contract regulations so she let the producers to catch on film the unsanitary settings where chickens are raised and to show how poorly these animals were treated. This interview reassures the audience that farmers nowadays are completely owned by these large companies and they have no say in...