HW 10

The food industry is very corrupt.  Fast food has made a few certain food companies have all the power, these companies then control everything, have too much power and take over and put the smaller farms/slaughterhouses out of business.  The mass production companies try to make all farmers farm their way instead of the healthier ways and they have control of farmers because they're usually in debt so they basically own them.  Many people in the government used to be part of the big food companies, so there isn't any significant changes being made to make our food healthier.  

I felt like the movie made me feel like the companies were so corrupt and powerful because they're tied to the government and it made it seem like it's impossible to beat the mass production food companies.  For example like when the movie was talking about saving seeds and the farmer told the story of when people were following and breaking into his farm trying to get him.  Also a part that I felt was emphasized more was how the big companies make it almost impossible for farmers to do produce food the healthier ways.  That way they make it easier on the farmers if they just do it the way the big companies want it to be done.  On the other hand I felt like the book showed a lot more statistics and that really gets to me because it helps me understand it in numbers and a lot of the statistics were insane and hard to believe.  I felt like the book focused more on the problems in the food industry and not as much on the corruption.   

Something that really stuck with me is how corrupted the food system has become and how it is was able to become like this.  It's pretty scary and it seems very hard to change for example the Kevin law still hasn't past and it's been years.  I can't really blame the people running the major food companies though because I feel like that's how our society/world made them, money is the most important thing everything revolves around money in our society so people will do whatever it takes to make money and that's all they'll think about.  It's messed up though because the farmers that seem like they really care, are forced out of doing things the healthy and proper way.  I'm wondering if there if there's a realistic way to eat healthier and stay away from the bad stuff while staying cheap.