Documentary#1 Food Inc.

The director of Food Inc. is Robert Kenner. From my recollection this movie used pathos and logos. After watching this movie it has opened my mind to watching what I eat. Watching this video was really new to me. It was scary and at the same time fun because I love to learn something new especially if it is beneficial to me, and this was definitely beneficial to me because now that I know what is really happening I can do something about it. For example I can start by not going to the big groceries stores, I can change to my local farmers market, and this will be very effective. Or better yet make a small vegetable garden in my back yard, which may also be very effective if I don’t mess up on the planting. For school, I think we (parents) can talk to the principle about the food schedule, depending what it looks like than we change it around to accommodate the children’s health. Now for the community that would be a tricky one because I would not know exactly where to go, but I know that we would have to educate them in the same sense as I was educated. So this film is about where our food comes from. It is a very informative clip about our food and how a lot of things have changed. For example the safety regulations don’t really inspect the big industries. So, in the beginning of the clip it show a family of Mexican descent going through a fast food drive through. As they are driving away with their fast food meal the mother is talking about that is all they can afford, the dad has diabetes, the prescriptions are too high. All I can think about is the lady is suffering because she wants to. The dad would have diabetes if he and they would eat healthy. All they can afford is fast food really, come on. I did not know what was in this video but I did know that fast food is definitely not healthy for you. I think what the lady really meant to say was, we didn’t have time to sit down and eat a meal, which could be believable because I do it sometimes, especially on my long days, but normally we sit down and eat dinner together. Another part of the movie was when Mr. Kenner introduces Barbara Kowalcyk (Food Safety Advocate), who had lost her two year old son due to Food coli poisoning, that part of the movie was the pathos. It was a sad situation I don’t know what I would if that was me. I think that woman is strong for doing what she does and she has a good cause for doing so. In this instance I believe that our government should get harder on these industries that don’t seem to care and just brush it off as if nothing had happened. It is sad to see big corporation get their way just because they have more money. After Barbara’s court case with the meat packing corporation she lost but after the case she had to be careful about how she worded things. How sad that a corporation had that much power over a person. There was this lady farmer Carol that decided to speak out after a dozen farmers were asked and they all refused, so my hat off to Carol, but she basically gave Mr. Kenner a tour of the daily routine and showed him all the bad things that go on in those types of farms, how the chickens are being treated, and so on. The thing that caught my eye is that the government must be in on it because they haven’t done anything about it. Then again I haven’t researched it enough maybe they have and I am just not aware of it. That will be all for now because and I can’t recall anything else. What do you think about the situation?