Grant Noble

Food Inc. Reflection

When watching this movie I experienced two things, disgust and
knowledge. I was discussed at the way they treat animals, and how they
are only seen as food. The animals in this movie were bred to be
killed, and were treated very poorly.
In the chicken scene i was horrified by the way they treated the
animals, and the handlers of the animals. The people who looked after
the chickens were a slave to the system. They were paid very little,
and had to pay these companies huge loans for there chicken coops,
some up to $500,000. The chicken handlers only were paid 18,000 a year
and they had to do the work of the owner of the chicken farms. They
also had to do what ever the company asked of them, like upgrading
their coops for threat of being fired. The chickens were kept in very
cramp spaces, and could not see they’re surrounding. This is no life
for a chicken, many of these chickens died from dieses and had to be
pumped full of antibiotics to survive. Even the handlers were affected
by the dirtiness of the chicken. One of the handlers became allergic
to almost all antibiotics because of becoming a chicken farmer. Even
the way they handled the chicken was cruel, kicking them and throwing
them into trucks to be killed, some of those chickens could not even
stand to run away because of the way they were grown. I found it
disgusting that chickens a sprayed with chlorine, after they are
dead.. I don’t want to eat that.
I also found it interesting how or beef is made. These cows like the
chickens are kept in very cramp spaces, and contract many dieses, like
ecoli. These cows are fed corn threw feedlots to maximize growing
capacity. The reason they are fed corn is because corn is so cheap,
corn can be sold for less than it cost to make it. This is because of
government stimulus on corn, and soy. The government pays the farmers
more money if they grow these cash crops, and more and more framers
are moving to corn. The reason why they use corn is because it is
easy to store for a long time, when corn prices go down, they hold the
corn for a while, and the prices go back up again. Farming now a days
is all about science, farmers do not tend the land, they just drive
trackers and spray fertilizer.
I also learned about a company called Monsanto, which is dominating
the corn and soy industry. They are growing genetically modified
vegetables, and are contaminating all the surrounding farms that are
organic. When the Monsanto crops pollinates, its pollen spread to
other farms and turns their plant into a Monsanto plant. Recently
Monsanto has been able to patent there gene of plant and is able to
sue anyone who has there plant gene inside of it, purposely or not.
They are monopolizing the industry and need to be stopped.
After watching this video, I have not eaten at a fast food
restaurant, and am always nagging my mom to buy organically.