Documentary: Food Inc

Everyone has the right to know what's in the food that they are eating. It's upsetting how these massive corporations dominate American citizens. If everyone knew how much brutality was required to meet the demands of the fast food industry, I like to think the public would simply not tolerate it and demand that animals stop being designated property in law. I find it impossible to believe that if people knew the reality that they would not want animals to have recourse to legal protections from enduring lifetimes of nothing but abuse.
Food Assignment
1. Earthlings
The film features a quote from Jeremy Bentham, the philosophical godfather of animal rights, so to speak, which says, ’The question is not, “Can they reason?” nor, “Can they talk?” but rather, “Can they suffer?” This argument spoken by Jeremy is often seen as the back stone as the animal rights philosophy. The irony of the quote is that Jeremy actually saw nothing wrong with eating meat. He ate meat once per day but he lived by the code that mean should seek to give animals a decent life, and strive to offer the animal a death that was less painful than what would have awaited them in a natural world. When it comes down to the common killing practice, it all comes down to how how the comfort of the animal is almost never taken into account. It all comes down to money. It's cheaper to kill animals inhumanely than it is humanely. It's cheaper to keep them in closed conditions.
2. Food, Inc
The message of Food, Inc is simple. Corporation and their profits are driving the food system and the effects are harmful and damaging to the health of our planet and everything that lives on it (including us). Furthermore, we have the power to change it collectively if we the con...

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...en at all. Of course, nearly no one knows this because most of the things we eat happen to be transparent so knowing if they're bad or good for you is hard to tell.
Essentially, in the end none of this matters because it's been going on for so long that a change is almost impossible. Addictive junk foods won't be going away anytime soon, in fact, more are being made everyday. Starting a healthy eating lifestyle is a lot harder when your body has been used to certain types of foods. Americans know how meats are made, yet they continue to eat. One of the main reasons why is because it tastes amazing, as cliché as that sounds. No one wants to have a tasteless dinner plate when you can eat one that turns out to be amazing. Despite the fact that the amazing plate has more calories, it's nothing something they look at because our foods aren't transparent or clear to us.