Robert Kenner’s Documentary Food Inc. (2008) offers a very insightful view into the major issues the food industry is facing. A major threat is posed from big business, and companies that mass produced goods of inferior quality to those available from smaller farmers or regional producers. The global food productions business poses a very real threat to the ability of smaller American run companies and family farms to stay in business. These multinational companies supply very cheap raw products, however have many down falls. Besides in many cases supplying an inferior product, these large companies have narrowed down the competition to a few other major suppliers. Leaving ways for there to be less accountability to the customers, fewer competitors mean fewer other choices for the consumer. This basically gives these large companies a free pass to do what they want in terms of safety and customer service. These mass producing companies pose very real threats in terms of health concerns. This applies to many aspects of the industry. The conditions in which animals are housed, the treatment of them, the way in which the workers are treated, and the safety of the food all raise concerns. The use of pesticides and other harmful chemicals by these large companies are largely unregulated. While in comparison smaller growers and manufacturers are held more accountable to their customers, and the organizations that over see them. Some of the most egregious safety violations are in the meat industry. The fact that hamburger meat at one of the largest ground beef suppliers in the United States has to be treated with ammonia before being fit for human consumption says a lot about the state of our food industry. The industrialization of the food industry due to fast food has given way to all sorts of issues. The conditions that our food is raised and processed in are unsafe and pose a huge risk to our health. The changing times have hit the food industry very hard. Without some alterations to the current state of the industry we are in danger of seeing a very dark future in terms of food.