This is a documentary filmed in the United States in 2009 with the theme of the source of food. These happened in the rapidly developing United States, and the truth unearthed by the documentary is shocking.
How long does it take for a chicken to go from birth to slaughter? 90 days. But it only takes 45 days to raise chickens that are twice as big as 90 days. These chickens are kept in a dark room on a large scale. I don’t know that the chickens lose their normal work and rest patterns during the day and night. They don’t need any energy consumption. They only eat feed and grow meat every day. These don’t even grow their internal organs and bones. Good chickens are processed into various foods by food factories and sent to Americans' tables.
Do cows eat corn or grass? Yes, cows are supposed to be herbivores, but the cows here have to live on corn. This creates a barrier to the digestive system of these cattle, which excretes the bacteria toxins. Contaminated manure can also be infected by captive cows who step on them, and these bacteria enter our lives with food processing. The child of an interviewee in the film died because he ate infected beef. The child was only 2 years old. The child in the video is the age when he was naive and just learned to understand the world. How could he know that the world is so cruel? . The food factory did not recall the infected beef until 20 days after the child's death. What the child's mother wants has never been sympathy and compensation, she just hopes that the company will attach great importance to the food issue.
You see a dazzling array of foods in supermarkets, and you think they all come from farms, but in fact all food in the United States is monopolized by a few food factories, and the entire food industry has entered a state of industrialization. These food factories force farmers to keep increasing their inputs to fully control them, and farmers have no choice but to become accomplices of these food factories. When the reporter came to the farm, all the farmers refused to be interviewed. Only one kind lady finally accepted the interview. She said that she could not bear the current situation, and she was constantly condemned by her conscience. The chickens in captivity will inevitably die in large numbers, so the chickens are given various antibiotics, and now any antibiotics are ineffective against her. In the documentary, we also saw sick cows that were about to die being pulled abruptly to the slaughterhouse. These foods that may harm our body at any time enter our dining table along with the industrial chain.
In the documentary, the family is eating hamburgers, and the wife said, "I don't have time to cook after get off work at 6 o'clock, and the food in the fresh market is very expensive, so I choose hamburgers, which are cheap, efficient and satisfying." They did For comparison, a hamburger costs $1, but a cabbage in the supermarket costs $1.20. It can be said that fast food is chosen because they have no choice. Why are vegetables more expensive than meat in the US? Growing vegetables is no better than growing food. Vegetable cultivation is a labor-intensive industry, and as we all know, labor costs in the United States are very expensive. But meat is completely different. As mentioned earlier, only a small piece of land is needed, and poultry can be raised in large quantities, and then meat can be mass-produced.
The U.S. government grows corn on a large scale, and because of government subsidies, almost all food is corn or soy products. The massive dumping of U.S. corn into Mexico has left millions of Mexicans unemployed and forced to make a living in these U.S. food factories. In the documentary, when these illegal immigrants who have worked in food companies for more than ten years were arrested by the police, the food factories turned a deaf ear. To them, these immigrants were just cheap labor and tools for them to make huge profits.
The United States is a typical capitalist country, and everything requires cost savings to maximize benefits. Food industrialization has greatly reduced the cost of food, and the high speed and speed of food has indeed brought convenience to people's lives, allowing everyone to have more time to create more social wealth. But it also brought some problems. The number of obese and diabetic patients in the United States is increasing and tending to be younger. Unhealthy foods greatly increase the chances of getting sick.
In our country, the food problem may be worse than that. The melamine, clenbuterol, and waste oil that have been exposed before are frightening. I admire these reporters who risk their lives to seek the truth and report the facts. I resent those companies that sacrifice the safety of the public for their own interests. I lament those law enforcement departments that have not yet perfected the law and do nothing.
But when you say that the food safety problem is so serious now that you don't know what to eat, you eat McDonald's chicken legs and high-calorie fries every day. I think the most important thing you should reflect on is yourself. If you can't change the social climate, at least you can change your eating habits and develop a healthy lifestyle.
As said at the end of the video, cook and eat three meals at home with your family, buy local and organic food, and read the labels to know the composition and ingredients of the food you are buying. Change the concept of diet and live a healthy life. Each of us can change the world through three meals a day. You, I, start from today.
View more about Food, Inc. reviews
