Film Analysis: Food Ink

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What is the first thought that crosses your head when you think of animals such as, cows,pigs,chickens,or horses? Do you think of farm animals as pets or consider them as human life ? The other way considering animals is food like is bacon,hamburgers or steak. The movie Food Ink directed by Robert Kenner illustrates how americans do not know how there food is being made or have knowledgment of the food they are consuming for example, tomatoes,meats and dairy. Food ink likes to give visualization to people on how many people are fighting against the higher power like congress to expose the real ingredients that come from food. Joel Salatin states in Food Ink “I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight: the right to know what's …show more content…
There is a curtain that shields us from the food industry because if maybe people knew what we consumed, people might just not want to eat it or even put it in their mouth. Many things are at risks such as, farmers can not expose how they grow or the ingredients. Other risks can be out health if certain things being made all year around such as tomatoes, it's not season like back in the good old days. This statement released by Food Ink “Michael Pollan: There are no seasons in the American supermarket. Now there are tomatoes all year round, grown halfway around the world, picked when it was green, and ripened with ethylene gas. Although it looks like a tomato, it's kind of a notional tomato. I mean, it's the idea of a tomato.”. The Functionalist perspective sees that the food industry give jobs to the undocumented people such as, the minority population can be a range from Hispanic to African Americans. The jobs can be from chicken pickers to crop