Food INC.

Earlier this week, I watched, for the second time, the movie entitled "Food INC." The first time I saw it, I was repulsed by the images that appeared before my eyes. However, now that I saw it a second time, although I was still disgusted, I was able to look at it in a different way and realise certain things.

The first thing that came to my attention was that farmers are actually bound, in a certain way, to the companies that employ them. Farmers who are bound by contract to certain corporations lose their right to think for themselves. The reason for this is that these corporations set up demands for them to follow and threaten to cut the contract if they don't. Because farmers are already in debt, and that their contracts are the only way they can actually make a bit of money, abiding by the demands set up by these corporations is the only way for them to pay their bills and survive.

Second of all, the main problems depicted by this movie are: G.M.O.'s, mass production, and power struggles. The reason why the mass production of food and animals are a problem is because this implies that the materials for them will be treated poorly and identically; this means that plants will be genetically modified to resist certain diseases, animals will be fed cheap, fatening, and poorly digestible food, and that bacteria and diseases will eventually become immunt to them, which could be dangerous for everyone's health.

Farmers, and many people in general, want organic food to become the norm. They want carrots and apples to be cheaper than the mass produced bag of chips. When I look at this goal, all I can think of is "how can they be this naive?" All these unhealthy foods are so bad for us because they are the norm. When our eating habits become virtually identical, our health is at risk. The reason why organic food is so good for us is because it differs form the rest; and that it is given so much individual attention. The world population is around seven billion people. Although organic products are healthy for us, we live in an industrial society and there is not way for a method that is this time and space consuming will be able to feed so many people.

Finally, "Food INC." is a very enlightening movie that depicts the many problems that are found  behind the food that we buy. There are actually many more problems other than those I spoke of, however, the bulk of this situation rests with what I spoke of; and chances are that if we settle the problems of the power struggle between the farmers and the corporations that, so far, control them, improve the quality of the cattle and various other things that we consume, and prohibit the employment of cheap and unsafe work while nullifying the corrupt influence that corporations have in politics that, as a result, allow them to get away unscaved by their despicable acts of taking in illegal immigrants for cheap labour and shifting the blame onto them, we should be capable of making significant change in the world we live in by changing these things one at a time.