Food Safety Issues Under Capital Manipulation

Presley 2022-04-22 07:01:39

It seems that food safety is an urgent issue.
In the United States, what we see behind the hidden dangers of food is the manipulation of monopoly capital.
A two-year-old boy died from eating an infected beef burger. Her mother ran for six years to get the company involved to apologize. Since then, she has embarked on the road of appealing for food safety. She wants to reduce the occurrence of tragedies by raising the standard of supervision and regulation, but Repeated obstacles;
in order to allow chicken farmers to breed chickens “efficiently” according to their own requirements, food companies have repeatedly forced farmers to upgrade their breeding equipment by threatening to interrupt contracts, just to make them unable to change their debt-laden economic conditions, so they have to deal with food companies. Listen to what they say;
in order to prevent the labeling of GMOs on food packaging, some members have suggested that the labeling of GMOs will cause unnecessary panic among consumers, thereby depriving consumers of their right to know;
for farmers who do not use patented seeds, even if it is only a neighbor farm. The seeds were blown into their own fields by the wind, and they had to face investigations and legal disputes from relevant companies.
The only thing that gives people hope in the film is the practice of organic food by some people with lofty ideals. However, after seeing the various bad deeds of capital, how can we believe that when capital discovers the blue ocean of the organic food market, it will not flood in large numbers. Enter, so as to control the right to speak in this market? At that time, organic may just be a guise for making money.
The day after I watched the video, I had to choose Burger King for some reason to satisfy my hunger. As I was eating, the scene of a cow to be slaughtered standing in the dung appeared in my mind. I felt disgusted and still felt that the burger tasted good. My appetite It's really regrettable.

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  • Syble 2022-04-24 07:01:15

    The world needs such documentaries, and often the root cause of such problems is not the government or other administrative departments, but the inaction of our people.

  • Kristina 2022-03-25 09:01:12

    Our life has been completely changed by industrialization

Food, Inc. quotes

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    Troy Roush - Vice President, American Corn Growers Association: You have to understand that we farmers... we're gonna deliver to the marketplace what the marketplace demands. If you wanna buy $2 milk, you're going to get a factoryfarm in your backyard. It's that simple. People have got to start *demanding* good, wholesome food of us, and we'll deliver; I promise you. We're very ingenious people, we will deliver.

  • Michael Pollan: The idea that you would need to write a book telling people where their food came from is just a sign of how far removed we've become. It seems to me that we're entitled to know about our food: who owns it, how are they making it, can I have a look in the kitchen?