hw # 10

The viewer gets the chance to take a "peek inside the kitchen." To see where our food comes from, who produces it and how it is produced. The main point of this film was to lift the veil on what is being hidden on the farms, in the supermarket and in the fast food companies. Something which most people put little thought into even though they've been eating food fortheir entire life. Normal.

The movie provides a more real image of what's going on in slaughterhouses, whereas in the book they might describe how bad the produce is being treated but seeing with our two eyes is more impacting. The movie shows a short and sweet precis on every section Pollan went over in his book, so the book of course gives more evidence, details, and goes infinitely deeper in these subjects than in the movie. In the movie they didn't show part where he goes hunting and how connected he is to nature around him and how it's all food, found this chapter interesting aspect.

The image that remained with me after watching the movie was of the animals being alive one second and in the next are being turned into what I see all the time in the supermarket. Meat. The feeling that dominates my response on what is going on with our food is disgust, how we are sold food full of chemicals and antibiotics and there is not much we can do about it. And if we try to make a change or to inform, we'll become in debt and spend long time in court. Not even a distraught mother over her dead son could move these companies, it's all just a business.