When you try to open your mouth wide, I hope the next mouthful is not rubbish

Tremaine 2022-03-23 09:02:27

Low cost - junk food swept the world's killer. It is precisely because of the low cost that even if junk food appears in the form of low price (such as the $1 burger in the drive-in restaurant in the film), junk food merchants can still earn super high profit margins. It is precisely because of the low price that junk food has become an irresistible choice among people with a high Engel coefficient (it is the one that eats hamburgers in the movie, and their limited income makes their "choice" in the supermarket from the formality. Multiple choice becomes essentially limited choice). From an economic point of view, there is really no condemnation for the pursuit of "low cost" and "low price". But the problem is, when low-cost food production continues to pose a dual environmental and health hazard, and drives out other food production methods from the market, this process should be stopped immediately by external forces. At least in theory. In the USA and EU, spinning-type social structures have a low Engel coefficient middle class as the main constituent group of the society, they can constitute enough economic force to demand "rational" food production process and healthy supply of manufactured goods . Here, videos like FOOD, INC are a good guide for their food optimization choices. In PRC, in the pyramid-shaped social structure, a low disposable income group with a high Engel coefficient is the main constituent group of the society. They have no choice but to form a huge consumer receptor to stimulate the low-cost junk food. Their constant outpouring. Here, films like FOOD, INC are a painful wake-up call for them, after accepting a series of ugly truths about junk food, they still have to continue to send this garbage and toxins into the mouths of themselves and their families. Of course, what is even more tragic is that in AFRICA, the monopoly of low-cost food is further aggravation of famine for them, and even the shaking of the country's economic foundation (from the replacement of basic crop production by imported low-priced food) and the intensification of political dependence . So, when people in USA and EU went to the market after seeing FOOD, INC to make some healthier consumption choices, I can only be deeply depressed here: food safety is like a gray selection button here, Visible but not on point. I also walked into the street, looking left and right for a long time, and uttered a whine that could not be found in the dazzling array.

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Extended Reading
  • Camden 2021-12-27 08:01:11

    It's horrible to watch, but as a documentary, there are too many tendentious words, which affect the audience's self-judgment.

  • Kiarra 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    the truth? conspiracy? Who knows?

Food, Inc. quotes

  • [last lines]

    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?