Entry #7 Food Inc.

Having seen this film once before I've been reminded of the horrors that surround the food we as a nation eat. It is absolutely disgusting the things we do to our bodies and the things we do to other animal bodies. It is also sickening to me on how much the government could not care about our safety, animals safety or the economic safety. 

It amazes me on what we really can put into our bodies without even knowing the consequences. Before i watched this movie I really had no clue that the government wasn't really telling us anything. Why would I question my nation, when I was raised to be so patriotic and gullible. It's horrific that I never knew what i was eating or how the animals I had eaten were being treated. I guess part of me knew some but, I chose to suppress it.  If we continue to feed this way, we will continue to suffer. We will suffer from lack of an earth we have, lack of actual animal we have that is not "engineered" and we will suffer from guilt that we have created for ourselves. 

The simple American Chicken. The body mass has grown extraordinarily since 1950, to where the chicken can barely walk without getting tired and falling down. The things we are doing to animal is repulsive and upsetting. One memory that will always stick with me from this film is the scene in which a cow is being forced to walk on broken legs to his slaughter, and no one gives a damn. Things like this stick with a person like myself who can't watch Old Yeller, Marley and Me, Shiloh or any other movie that involves some dog, cat or animal dying

Unfortunately this is the way the world is now, and I do understand why. Why in the world would a liter of soda cost less than 12 ounces of soda and 12 ounces of water? It's pretty wrong that this is true. Supply and demand requires bottled water to cost more because more people would pay more for water than soda. so keeping water prices high and soda prices low, more people will buy soda because they wont want to spend more on water, but also the suppliers know that there are people who will choose to spend more for water because they have the money for it. 

 

It is very saddening to know that the government could not care less about the health of the nation. The nation is sick which calls for more doctors visits but money is tight, insurance doesn't want to give, and the government can't see the problem. They blame lack of funding for hospitals on lack of health of the nation, yet they are bathing in money and selling us unhealthy foods, while our bank accounts slowly dry up.