Food Inc.: How The Food Gets Inside of Us

Happy Meal toys from McDonald's drive kids to their restaurants

When I was in 4th grade, McDonald's Happy Meals were my life. The food was good, but the reason why my mom was dragged to the restaurant was because of the special toys hidden deep down within those bright-red boxes. Throughout my childhood years I failed to realize the main purpose of the excitement that waited for me inside those boxes.

In the documentary film Food Inc., viewers were taken on a field trip, showing us the truth on how our Happy Meals are made and how McDonald's' food eventually get inside of us.

When McDonald's first began, it was a regular restaurant. In the 1950's, restaurants were pretty much all the same. McDonald's workers on roller skates delivering food. One day the owners decided to cut costs and they created a new process. Their new process created a whole new idea on how restaurants of the future were going to work. In their new process, the McDonald brothers introduced the "factory way" of making food.

The factory way had less workers with lower pay. This new way helped McDonald's to make a lot of money. McDonald's became the very rich company it is today because of these changes. So rich was McDonald's, their meat suppliers changed, too. Four companies now provide 8 out of every 10 burger patties in the U.S.