Food Inc.

So in this blog post i am going to be talking about the movie food Inc. in this movie they talk about the dangers in the foods we eat. In the beginning they talk about the way chickens are raised and how they have no rights they just sit around in chicken houses all day, i say sit around because they cant walk. The reason they cant walk is because they grow so fast their bones don't develop enough to hold their own weight. I think this is bad because its inhumane and those animals should have rights. The reason they grow so fast is because their food is full of hormones that cause them to gain a lot of weight very quickly. These hormones then get transferred to us when we eat the chicken.

The second chapter starts talking about corn and the ways it is used. Corn is used in so many products that if you went in to an average person's house and looked through their kitchen you would see that it is used in almost all food products. This is dangerous because we are feeding it to animals also and most of the animals that we feed it to aren't programmed to eat corn. Cows for an example were made to eat grass but when we found out how easy it is to feed them corn that is what we feed them because it is inexpensive and easy to use. This caused cows to develop E-Coli a disease which can kill humans if they are diagnosed with it. The movie said that if a cow eats grass one time every five days it will get rid of the E-Coli.

Another chapter talks about how a company named Monsanto controls 90% of the United States' soy bean crops. The reason they control so much is because they adapted the soy beans to withstand pesticides and the mutation spread throughout the continent. Now they are slowly getting rid of people who farm their own soybeans by suing them claiming patent infringement. They also send out people to farms to look for saved seeds which are seeds that you don't plant but save them for the next year. They have a monopoly on the soy bean industry and no one can stop them because they will just sue you until your in debt for the rest of your life.

So in all i felt like this movie was really informative and although i didn't like some of the things they said i agree with most of it.