"You'll never look at dinner the same way again."
It is the very statement that I would use to describe my reaction and feeling after watching the documentary, Food Inc. It was shocking to see what kind of procedures the food we eat everyday undergoes before it reaches our plates. It is not very pleasant. The way the farmers treat their animals; the cows, pigs and the chickens and the way the food companies treat the farmers is beyond unfair.
Before watching the documentary, I thought the pictures in the packet of nearly all of the food brands; a happy, sunny farm with cows and chickens roaming around in large areas filled with green grass was actually the place our food was produced when they are actually manufactured in industrial farming houses. Chickens are raised in dark farm houses and are fed until they can't carry their own weight. Many of them are cramped in a small area, where its unhyegienic. The food industry prefers and pressures this method to the farmers since the chickens are less resistive, they grow bigger in a shorter time, and is much more cheaper than free range chickens. But what if the farmers refuse to use this inhumane method? They get fired.
The way the farmers are exploited by the food industry also came as a shock. The food companies first offers to build the farming houses which are really expensive for the farmers, and encourage them to pay back slowly, and I mean very slowly. The farmers only earn half of what they produce, therefore having to continue working for the company. If the farmers don't satisfy the company's needs, no matter how cruel the requests are, they get fired.
I believe that in order to reduce these types of exploitations we should try to buy from companies that treat their workers, animals, and the environment with respect. Also organizations like fair trade should be more known.
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