The document discusses the modern industrial food system and issues it creates. Large corporations control food production and rely on science and technology to increase efficiency and lower costs. However, this reliance on chemicals, hormones, and artificial growth methods has negative health and environmental impacts. Slaughterhouses often subject animals to inhumane treatment through abuse and hormone injections. Dependence on artificial growth causes animals to be seen as products rather than living creatures. Moving to a more organic and natural approach would improve consumer and environmental health.
The document discusses the modern industrial food system and issues it creates. Large corporations control food production and rely on science and technology to increase efficiency and lower costs. However, this reliance on chemicals, hormones, and artificial growth methods has negative health and environmental impacts. Slaughterhouses often subject animals to inhumane treatment through abuse and hormone injections. Dependence on artificial growth causes animals to be seen as products rather than living creatures. Moving to a more organic and natural approach would improve consumer and environmental health.
The document discusses the modern industrial food system and issues it creates. Large corporations control food production and rely on science and technology to increase efficiency and lower costs. However, this reliance on chemicals, hormones, and artificial growth methods has negative health and environmental impacts. Slaughterhouses often subject animals to inhumane treatment through abuse and hormone injections. Dependence on artificial growth causes animals to be seen as products rather than living creatures. Moving to a more organic and natural approach would improve consumer and environmental health.
The document discusses the modern industrial food system and issues it creates. Large corporations control food production and rely on science and technology to increase efficiency and lower costs. However, this reliance on chemicals, hormones, and artificial growth methods has negative health and environmental impacts. Slaughterhouses often subject animals to inhumane treatment through abuse and hormone injections. Dependence on artificial growth causes animals to be seen as products rather than living creatures. Moving to a more organic and natural approach would improve consumer and environmental health.
As portrayed in Food Inc., chemi- cals are a big part of the food indus- try.
I n todays world, the focus of food is
convenience, efficiency, and cost. Large corporations control most the worlds food production and modern advances in science and technology have allowed for large-scale production. On the surface, the purpose of these scientific advancements are to allow for more food to be produced in order to satisfy the growing demand negative effects on the environment, the for cheap and quick groceries. Consumers animals and crops, and the are often unaware of what exactly it goes people that consume them. into producing what they eat. Unethical treatment of animals is so often found in slaughterhouses and factories through Moving away abuse and hormone injections. Farmers from these chemicals and who grow crops are often required to use focusing on a more organic, potentially dangerous chemicals on their natural diet will improve fields to meet corporation standards. These methods may be more efficient on paper, consumer health but food has become less organic and more as well as the health of the artificial as the years go on. The depen- planet. dence on chemicals and hormones has altered todays foodscape and has caused 1. Slaughterhouses and what they do Lessons from Food Inc. These injections cause a chicken to reach the peak of its meat growth at only 49 days, as opposed to the three months that it used to take
The injections cause The dependence
the bird to grow so on artificial growth unnaturally large that causes the chickens to its legs cannot sup- no longer be seen as port its own weight. living creatures but Many chickens can no purely as products longer walk or move to be created in a Resources past a certain point in factory Antibiotics are included in chicken feed which their short lives. They passes through the bird itself. This buildup of are simply produce. bacteria causes chicken farmers to grow intolerant to antibiotics and they can no longer take them. Antibiotics are included in crops as well. Food Inc. shows that over 90% of the USs soybeans are genet- 1. Slaughterhouses and what they do ically modified with a patented gene from one com-
