Is Food food?

Is food food?
The most essential need for human survival is food. It fuels our bodily system like gas to a car, we cannot go without it. One would think that since nature itself provided us with a range of this “food” that we would not have to worry about consuming ordinary things like “meat”. We live such a fast pace of life these days that we take most things for granted and expect systems to be in place. The last thing we want or think about is where our food comes from. We have total faith and belief in government and the system, with all this technology, that it would be ludicrous of us to think that we could get a dodgy meat patty. How can it possibly be? Our government is in charge, they look after us right? We get good food? Why would anyone want to serve bad food? Most of us let this notion swing by and we just throw it all in the shopping trolley. In some countries people have to worry when the next bomb attack might kill them, but we now have to worry about will our next bite be our last.
Food Inc.(2008) a documentary film by Robert Kenner, reveals the ugly truth about corporate farming and how a few big agricultural companies control the food industry and in a rush to get out the biggest profits, consumers get handed down contaminated products. The most striking thing that the documentary is the process of how food gets to your dinner table. The film makes you think- “what have I been eating for the past 19 years of my life and should I be more worried about getting hit by a car or eating meat?”. The industrial age redesigned way everything is produced, corporate bosses began striving for every dollar which lead to cheaper production at higher profits. Technology has become our biggest enemy. It wasn’t that long ago the average farmer used horses and a plough, and that cows ate on big plains, but this now seems to have happened another world away. Animals like chickens and cows are now scientifically designed to grow and eat differently so they can get bigger and fatter faster so they can go on shelves quicker. In modifying diet and growth of these animals we are creating diseases which is passed down to our food. It’s not just in animals its also in vegetables, we now have seasonable veggies all year round. We are taking products that occur naturally and we are designing them to do things that there were not made to do. A good line from the movie is “we are not eating beef, we are eating a product that is designed to look like beef”. In the movie they say that in one beef patty there is 1000 different cows and it only takes one dodgy one and you could be in hospital.
Its sad to see that we have greater problems that are killing people , like war yet we are killing ourselves with food. The big corporate control the market and people who can’t afford healthier alternatives are forced to suffer for someone who wants to get rich. This movie has definitely enhanced my views on healthy and organic food.