Food Inc (EC)

I decided to watch a movie called Food Inc. This movie has forever changed my views on what i'm consuming. It's about a reporter who begins to unveil whats really going on with our food supply. First he reveals how animals DNA are being engineered. He explains how the chicken now grows in half of the time it traditionally did and that the chicken has been modified to have larger breast, because consumers prefer white meat. Cows are fed corn, because it's cheaper and it makes them bigger much faster. However this creates a problem because a cow's body is not made for a corn diet. So how do companies fix this problem? Antibiotics. They inject animals with medicine so they aren't over-contaminated.  

These animals are locked in cages where they can barley move. A cow, chicken, and pig usually are running around on a farm. Instead chickens are thrown into a small but long and dark hallway that remains locked. They are injected so much that they can not walk or even move; They only sit. Many die due to the conditions and some even feed on the dead  ones, who most likely have a disease. Those chickens are then fed back to us. A cow will always stand and only eat. They get huge. The movie shows a worker personally opening the cow's stomach as it eats so she can take out some of the contamination. The pig lays on its side for its entire life in these "farms." They only eat and give birth or are just fattened up. This, to me, is beyond disgusting and cruel. The worlds population exceeded the amount of agricultural that's able to be produced, however this industrialized food is a terrible idea. The sick animals being fed to humans will eventually just make the humans sick. 

In this film it touches on GMO being labelled; They're not labelled because people aren't educated enough on GMO'S, so this will be a waist of food and damage sales. However I say that people would not buy the food if they were educated on what GMO does to the food and to your health. It angers me that the world is basically being lied to by greedy corporations like Tyson and Monsanto. I wonder if they eat the food they produce? 

The word food and engineered disgust me. Food should be natural, but instead is filled with bacteria because of the antibiotics that are put into the animals. This movie, food inc, also touched on how much rat feces and hair is allowed into food before its deemed "unsafe." I think everyone should be educated and informed on food that goes into our bodies. Instead people have no idea what they're eating. Or what about the people who are aware of whats going on but don't know what to do about it? It's much easier to ignore it if you don't know how to fix the problem and more convenient. But it's important we know and we fix this. This food is what gets people sick, unhealthy, or contributes to the growing obesity in America. If you want to live a healthy ad long life you should do some research on your food. Or maybe you're like me and are already aware but you're not sure what to do. With modern day technology it's so easy to find a way to fix your problem. You can google an all natural, non GMO farm near you. Or find a grocery store that doesn't sell or support GMO'S. Its time to make a change in our food and it's time to stop allowing factories to lie to us about what they're feeding us.