The first documentary was Food Inc., which tackled about the reality of food production in the US. It is very alarming to know that because of high demand, they treat animals in an unhumane way. Would you believe that chickens are fed with corn and antibiotics to make them fat? If before it would take 3 to 4 months to grow a chicken, now it is only 40+ days. These 40 days chickens cannot even stand that long since they carry a lot of weight. Just because we love our KFC, Mc Donald's or even our Ayam Penyet the biggest portion, we let the animals suffer.
Another alarming subject is the food that they fed to cows. We all know that cows are herbivores, meaning they eat grass. Because food producers want them to grow faster and fatter, they feed cows with corn. Of course corn is cheaper in the US since they can produce a lot now. The down side of cows of eating corn? Well, they just develop an e-coli bacteria that kill humans. Cows eat grass not corn period.
In the documentary, they have featured kids that died because of eating burgers infected with e-coli. It's just sad that the government that should protect the people are protecting the food producers. Majority of agencies that deals with Food are somehow related to the food producers. Bizarre right? Even the Clinton and Bush administrations had ties with the producers.
My take on this, better eat organic foods even it is quite expensive compared to the commercial foods. We should buy local produce and read the labels. You are what you eat...
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