People really don’t think about what they eat, unfortunately. Even I don’t. In the dining hall I have not once looked at a cookie and pondered about where each and every one of the ingredients came from. Rather, I say to myself “well, it’s only a cookie! It can’t be that bad”. If I were to sit down and think about the cookie in the dining hall, I would think that the main ingredients are much simpler than they probably are: sugar, flour, chocolate chips. It almost feels natural to not think where that hamburger came from because we just think, “well, its made out of a cow”! End of story. It seems as though a lot of people don’t know the truth about our food industry, so when they see something in the supermarket or dining hall or snack bar that looks good they buy it. Based off of what I learned from watching Food Inc. (2008), the food industries try to keep the truth quiet (like when they sued Oprah and that woman couldn’t talk about what she eats) which is probably why we don’t naturally think about the origin from our food: are we legally allowed too?

There are too many negative ramifications of the food industry! First things first, major food cooperation’s are making cheap, unhealthy food. And this food is bad. It has lots of bad stuff in it and a whole lot of corn. So, the mass amounts of food being produced and fed to thousands upon thousands of people is, well, crap. And it is making America obese. In the film Supersize Me, we had the pleasure of seeing lots of heavy-set people walk in and out of McDonalds and the like. This is unfortunate if you think about it for a second. A lot of people in this country don’t have the time or money to be able to buy vegetables in the local grocery market and cook a meal for their family. It is less expensive to go to a fast food joint to feed their family. I think it is a shame how much the food industry has control over us. It seems that I can’t know where my food comes from because it is “libel”. People are being forced to eat, well, crap three meals a day because they need to make tough choices between paying for a vital medication and buying vegetables for lunch (Food Inc.).