Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Reflection on "Food Inc"

The movie “Food inc” was very upsetting to watch, but to me the parts that disturbed me were not so much as the animal cruelty, but the fact that there were laws that were emplaced to keep these acts in place, as well as destroy the major companies competition. The cruelty is bad, I agree with that, but the fact that these laws were developed that had the reaction of destroying legitimate and small owned farms and businesses pissed me off. The examples I show below are the biggest elements that made me mad from the movie.
The farmers that have neighbors containing crops of GMO infected their farm and had to pay a fine for the GMO crop's contamination. This seems ridiculous to us in the beginning for why we would ever emplace a law such as that, but this law started out to be not so bad as an idea. This law started out for GMO companies to make money from their developments, the farmers would only have to plant the crop once save the seed and give it out for free. Another law was emplaced to intercept those people who save the seed and punish them with a fine. Although this law was a great idea, it left a loophole for those who got infected with their GMO crop. This loophole was great for the company to make extra money from hopeless victims. There are 25 such intercepters from one company alone, with other intercepters from other companies, farmers do not have a change, nor a hope of winning. Those that fought against the “machine” were eventually ran down until they could not pay their bills any longer.
More bills were passed that blocked other people from discriminating the company. An example of that would be the case with Opera Winfrey with a meat producing company. On one of her shows, she critiqued the meet industry for something. This quote dropped the meet companies income and she eventually went to court. She won, but shows how much laws have changed.

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