Food Inc.

During the movie of Food Inc. it was understand how the food system is ruled in the USA. Over the past three week the concept of power was discussed on our social studies class. The sources that were used for analyzing the different type of concepts of power or how things were related to it, were Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, The Power of Illusion and Food Inc. All of this relate to each other in certain ways, the are all connect with the fact of money, all of the sources were created based on getting the more money as possible. It is going to be shown how the The Power of Illusion and the Confession of an Economic Hit Man relate to the Food Inc. video that was seen in the past week. 

Food Inc. video talked about the use of multinational companies of their power in order to control the food system in the USA, it was said on the video that companies like Tyson and Monsanto ruled the food system. The video also showed that this companies genetically modify the products in order for them to be cheaper to produce and be able to be done in a more efficient and fast way, putting in danger  the life of the consumers by ingesting the different type of chemicals that the products now contain. The  video Food Inc. relates to the book of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by the way that the companies involved with Food Inc. deal with the farmers. On the book it was shown that the (EHM) convinced they third world countries to accept the help that they offer in order for them to complete the different type of projects they planned on doing like constructing airport, building roads, etc... as a result of accepting the help from the (EHM) now the country had a huge debt that become impossible to repay, so they had to pay the USA by letting them using the land to built military bases, free trade etc... On the movie countries=farmers, and the companies=EHM, the company convince the farmers on accepting their help, but then they become slaves of the company in order to repay what they have borrow. It is also related to movie Power of Illusion in the way that this companies had become a "superior race" in the food system, by saying this it refers that the whole food system in run by this companies and the companies that decided to make a change on this are prohibit or they are so powerless that there is nothing they can do.

Photo Credit: Take Part

MLA Citations:

Perkins, John. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. San Fransisco: BK, 2004. Doc.

Adelman, L. Race- The Power of Illusion. California Newsreel.April, 2003. Online. March 17, 2014.

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