Assigned entry #3 Food Inc.

 A film that will open eyes and turn stomachs is Food Inc. It shows the abuse of animals and also the employees of the companies who manufacture food. And make no mistake, it is manufactured. The film is absolutely heart rending. Here is a taste, if you will, of the movie. It informs people of the truth in modern farming practices. The movie is a shocking reality exposure to what is really happening to the food we all eat. As I watched it, I felt that I could no longer eat meat. It was cruel in the the way the animals lived and died.The movie then showed farmers that had respect for the animals in their care and the customers they serve.                          

The picture most people associate to beef  farms.

Reality (sadly)

DuPont  is getting into the agriculture business. The competition are the chemical giants Monsanto and Dow Chemical . It should be alarming that the top chemical companies are major players in the food industry.  Not agriculturalists  or biologists, but chemists. Now the farmers who grow soybeans cannot save  the seeds from the crops the grow. Monsanto owns the patent on the genes of the soybean plant that are resistant to their product, Round Up. This  kind of monopoly has caused farmers, who have a just cause, to defend themselves against the company to be ruined financially. Not that the company was right, just able to outspend the farmers. Justice was not served, but bought. Many decisions can be justified in the name of good business decisions but are not in the interest of the greater good. Complete control over a major crop such as soybeans  by one company is, or should be, a daunting thought. The implications for farmers, and the rest of the eating community (That would be everybody.)  are worrisome. Without genetic diversity the crop can be wiped out with a fungus, much like the Great Potato Famine in Ireland in 1845.  Soybeans are almost as important a crop now as potatoes were then.  To  have the future of  ninety percent of the crop in one company's control is asking for disaster. The question will not be if, but one of when, will disaster strike.