Food Ink

Food Ink is a documentary movie that talks about food today and where it comes from. When I first saw this movie, I hated myself for not considering what I eat. I used to believe that every food I eat is grown and is natural, but this movie proved me wrong because companies have changed the processes from which our food comes from. Our food chain has changed from natural, healthy to industry. Farmers who want to protect us from eating harmful food are constantly criticized. They are kept on the thumb by companies, forced to raise their crops faster than the crops’ natural cycle of growth. They are enslaved by companies because companies want to feed the world, but they don’t care what they feed the world; they just want money. I believe the outside air is cleaner than the inside air, but companies instead say “outside air is not good for food”, which is not true, so they treat all our food away from nature and the atmosphere. Corn became cheap and because of that, it is fed to animals. Companies benefit from this because corn makes cows, chickens, and pigs fat and it also makes them grow faster. They like that because they want to keep producing meat. There are no seasons in the super market. Most foods are genetically modified, so that they may be in stores early. Unhealthy food is cheap and tastes better, so people buy it because they just don’t have enough money to buy healthy food. I recommend everyone to watch food ink because it reveals secrets companies will never reveal to us the consumers. For example: the fact that farmers suffer greatly because we take all their food and they get little money from it. As a result, they cannot buy materials to grow more food and they also cannot feed themselves. The movie calls us to think about what we eat and where it comes from.