Food, Inc

The way we eat has changed more in the last fifty years than in the previous ten thousand but the image that's used to sell the food is still the imagery of agrarian America you go into the supermarket and you see pictures of farmers The picket fence and the silo and the 30s farmhouse and the green grass It's the spinning of this pastoral fantasy The modern american supermarket has on average forty-seven thousand products There are no seasons in the American supermarket Now there are tomatoes all year round grown halfway around the world and picked when it was green and ripened with ethylene gas Although it looks like a tomato it's kind of a notional tomato I mean it's the idea of a tomato In the meat aisle there are no bones anymore there is this deliberate veil this curtain that's dropped between us and where our food is coming from The industry doesn't want you to know the truth about what you're eating because if you knew you might not want to eat it If you follow the food chain back from those shrink-wrapped packages of meat you find a very different reality The reality is a factory It's not a farm it's a factory That meat is being processed by huge multinational corporations that have very little to do with ranches and farmers now our food is coming from enormous assembly lines where the animals and the workers are being abused and the food has become much more dangerous in ways that are being deliberately hidden from us and you got a small group of multinational corporations who control the entire food system from seed to the supermarket they're gaining control of food this isn't just about what we're eating this is about what we're allowed to say what we're allowed to know It's not just our health that's at risk The companies don't want farmers talking they don't want this story told