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| Spider-Man toy along with a happy meal |
In the documentary film Food Inc. viewers were taken on a fieldtrip showing the truth behind the making of happy meals.
When McDonald's first began, it was a regular restaurant. In the 1950s every restaurant was basically the same. McDonald's served food by having waitresses on roller skates. The owner decided to cut cost so they created a new way to produce food at a faster pace. McDonald's introduced the factory way of making food. 8 out of 10 hamburger patties are controlled by four major name brands that produce beef. The name brands such as Tyson and Purdue have labeled their food as farmer this and barns and beautiful green grassy areas when really the chickens are grown in crowded chicken homes and are thrown into the factory to be made into the food we eat today. The chickens that we eat are different from the chickens we used to eat back in the 1950s. Two major differences between the chickens are that the breasts are much larger because that's what sells. Also they grow up at a faster in less time meaning that more chickens are produced and more money goes into the chicken growers pocket. Vince Edwards, the chicken grower working for Tyson wasn't given permission to have let the cameramen inside the chicken houses. The reason for this was because the chickens aren't being treated how they should be. They are crowded and get little to no sunlight and sit in their own poop most the time.
About 3 out of 10 farm fields in the United States are used to grow corn and the government plays a part in making corn the most grown crop because everything we consume is made of corn so if we have too much corn we can sell it for cheaper meaning we can feed our pigs and cows corn, our animals will get bigger and the companies didn't waste a lot of money on feeding the animals they then kill and then we eat. So basicly corn is everywhere, it's in your ketchup, jelly, coka cola, and even in batteries and diapers. Cows were not made to eat corn though. Although the corn makes them fat and meatier the cows end up with a disease called E.Coli that is an acid resistant virus that is harmful to humans and can kill us.
Kevin Kowalcyk died in 2001 because of eating ground beef. The ground beef was contaminated with E.Coli and everyone felt the government was responsible because the FDA is responsible to make sure the food is safe for the world to eat. In 1972 50,000 food safety inspections were made but in 2006 only 9,164 food safety inspections were made. That meant the companies didn't have to keep their factories sanitary and could add anything they want in the beef. One additive the companies used to get rid of the E.Coli was ammonia hydroxide.
Fast food is the cheapest kind of food along with chips and soda because they use a lot of corn so they are cheap to produce and are ready when you need it. The cheap corn products like fast food connect the diabetes and obesity and being poor because well the food is really cheap so anyone can afford it. It leads to diabetes and obesity because the corn used to feed the cows is in the burger you eat and so it's like you ate the corn in the first place and the factories see everything they do as okay and sanitary. While the people who grow chickens and cows the way we imagine they are suppose to be grown the CEOs see this as unsanitary because they are in open air. The big meat packingplants get their workers such as poor whites, poor blacks, illegal immigrants and basicly anyone who come from far far away because they cost less.
Speaking of costs, when you add up all the enviormental cost, the health cost, and every other cost the companies take to make your food it adds up to more than what you pay for. Food corporations are protected by laws these laws are passed and come to be because the industries can manipulate the government and use them to their advantage. These laws aren't in the best interests of our families because of they keep this up soon they won't be inspecting the meat we consume. They will keep feeding the animals corn instead of the grass they are suppose to be eatting.
