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.

Has the U.S. Moved On From Racism?

I believe the U.S. is (not) colorblind due to the fact that in airports people are racially categorized

• Jocelyne - Republicans/Congress are against undocumented immigrants; people often times are incarcerated for minor offenses (i.e. vagrancy or homelessness)
• Princess: very few families discuss racism. As a matter of fact only 37% of families talk openly about race, which makes racial discussions uncomfortable to millennials. 
• Ruben: racism still exists in the U.S. today because only 44% of African-American families own homes versus 73% of white families. In other words, if the U.S. was truly a colorblind society those percentages would be more equal.
• African-Americans die four years earlier than whites; neighborhoods/homes; lower income, healthcare; income security; low-income housing and gang violence; healthy vs unhealthy foods depending on where one lives; 
• Mariela: stress because of income security
• Sahara; stress emotions; stressed-out; suicidal 

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Unions in America; Industrial Revolution & Today

A fast food worker smiling as she earns $9/hour
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Fast Food Worker's Lament

My Struggle is so real
My Smile is so not
Here's the food that will kill you
Nine dollars an hour is all I got

They sit at their desks in that big city
The CEO out on his yacht
I'm like a slave
This is all I got

The SD news said I was dumb
Poverty should be my lot
Them newspaper folks with their big checks,
and Houses, but this is all I got


If I had my chance, I would make them all feel
What it's like to take a financial shot
They wouldn't like bleeding
Everything they got

The Industrial Revolution in the U.S. (The Movie)

“The Collier”. First painting of a locomotive.
Watercolour of George Walker representing
the Blenkinsop's locomotive hauling coal
wagons at the Middleton Colliery in 1814
Source: wikipedia

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Part Two is here.

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The Industrial Revolution

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