FOOD INC

Food Inc is a movie that shows how the industry is creating cheaper, faster, and tasty food that is unhealthy for the people. It explains how companies are genetically modifying seeds and animals in order to sell more at a lower cost. One example of this issue is the creation of genetically modified beans from the company Monsanto. These beans have been altered genetically in order to never die from any plague or virus but at the same time they are not fertile; if you want to plant more of this bean, you need to buy them directly from the company. In relation with the book Confessions of an Economic Hitman, one related problem expressed by the company of monsanto is the economic or corporate control.

There are three different sources that we have seen in social studies class and they are: Race film, Food Inc movie, and the book Confessions of an Economic Hitman. These three sources have many things in common, for example improvement of people´s actions in our society. In the race film, scientist explained that even a person with different skin color than yours could be more genetically close to you than your own brother. The Food Inc documentary is so good and expresses a different point of view from the multinational corporations that run the economies of the world. According to the director of the documentary Robert Kenner: "It’s such a good case that you soon realize there are a dozen more documentaries tucked inside this one." 

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More information: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/movies/12food.html?_r=0

Citations:

Dargis, Manohla. "Meet Your New Farmer: Hungry Corporate Giant." The New York Times. The New York Times, 11 June 2009. Web. 31 Mar. 2014. <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/movies/12food.html?_r=0>.