Food, INC. Reflection

After watching food, inc. my impression of how the science, technology of food industry and society are interrelated is that, society not only depends on the food industry but it also influences the food industry. If you think about it we need food to survive but depending what we buy we also influence the food industry.Society then tells the food industry what the demand is, better tasting,etc, and that goes straight to the science of the food industry. The science of the food industry then alters our food to better suit the consumer(society), using the technology, and the circle starts again. The question is does the science and technology of the food industry have a negative or a positive impact on society or environment, well this film definitely describes the negative impact on society and environment. So how do we affect this all, it is in fact supply and demand, the companies supply what we demand so we can alter what is on the market and even (if we refuse to my products that we not made with correct and cleanly practices) change they way our food is made. This is sort of how we are connected to this earth, because we can change the way the people who handle our earth. We will say no to high tech devices when we learn to say no to the big companies and stop relying on them. We only really care about how because that is what gives us the product and that is what we want to why isn't important to most of society because that makes everything much to complicated and expensive. Natural farming is in moderation and letting most thing be natural while industrial farming is forcing animals to grow faster, lay more, etc. making everything go at a faster pace. Well natural farming is better for the costumer because in terms of health it is much healthier but for the food industry industrial is better because it makes things much faster and they can supply quicker. Science and technology are responsible for making things fatter, bigger and cheaper but this also makes it more unhealthy which ruins our human health and ruins our survival with GMO foods because the GMO foods eventually over power the natural foods making there only 1 type of unhealthy plant. We definitely saw health costs in this film with the bacteria and obesity due to the foods, we saw environmental costs as well with the fields and fields used for agriculture. Economic costs where prevalent because having workers work for you and dropping because of conditions and also paying people to not speak about your company all costs money. I thought this film really shows you the true gory details and showed me why my mum forces such strong healthy eating habits unto me and my brother.