Food, Inc. Movie and Book Blog 1

In the movie Food, Inc. the part that stood out most to me was the segment on corn. It stuck out the most to me because of how many different things contain corn. This did not only include food either. That was the most shocking. You don't really think of diapers and such to contain corn but apparently they do. I liked how the movie presented to the information on corn and what all contains corn as well. It kept popping up images of different familiar products, first showing ones which it was easy to see how corn was in them , but once more and more products kept popping up, the movie showed more and more products that you would never associate with corn. The flim was also hard hitting when it talked about how corn farmers are being put out of business and getting in trouble when they save their seeds now because of Monsanto's restrictions on corn farming.

The book supplemented the movie very well. In the chaper about organic foods, more was talked about on how the world is becoming more and more dependent on foods that are enhanced by chemicals. One quote said this well: "All of humanity ate organic food until the early part of the twentieth century, yet we've been on a chemical binge diet for about eighty years." (Page 48). This really makes you think about how much the food we eat has changed because of chemical enhancement. The book also mentions how much Stoneyfield has done to break organic foods onto more of a mainstream scale. Plus, it gives the mission statements of Stoneyfield and what their goals are. Monsanto is discussed further in the book, outside of the corn topic on how they sell their bovine growth hormones to be put in milk cattle.