Food Inc.:How You Get Your HappyMeal

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

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    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 all very similar, and McDonald's had food delivery on roller skates. One day the owners decided to cut costs and created a new process. This new process created a new idea on how restaurants of the future are 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 the McDonald brothers to make a lot of money by making more food at cheaper costs. McDonald's became the very rich company it is today because of the changes in 1950's.
    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. The purpose was to keep me wanting more. 
    In the documentary Food Inc., they showed us that a lot of our meat supply is owned by only 4 companies. to be specific, 8 out of 10 steaks you eat are probably produced by them. These companies put picture of open farms and peaceful animals on the labels of their food when in reality, they're raised in factories with little space. They are afraid that if they told the truth on the labels, people will not eat the food. 
    Large companies main focus is profit. Food Inc. shows that the chickens now are very different than they were in the1950s. Company's feed the chickens special hormones to make them have more meat. It leads to them growing faster and having many issues on the inside of their body. Vince Edwards, the chicken grower working for one of the 4 companies, could not allow the filmmakers into his chicken houses because of the company he works for. They didn't allow permission because if the public saw the way they treat their animals, people would not buy their food. 
    30% of America is used to grow corn. Corn is a giant part of our diet and many don't even know it. Corn is is soda and juice (high fructose corn syrup),  all chips, even French fries (made in corn oil).The government pay farmers to produce more corn than we need so that it costs less. Large meat companies really like that because they use the corn to feed their animals. Cows are made to eat grass naturally. The corn is actually bad for them. It produces a perfect place for E.Coli, a deadly bacteria. 
    Kevin Kowalcyk died in 2001 by eating a cheeseburger made with tainted, or dirty, meat that had E.Coli in it. The government didn't do anything about it until 17 days later. When he passed away 12 days after eating the meat. Although they found out that feeding the cows grass for 5 days can get rid of the bacteria, they decide to get rid of it another way. To clean meat, factories use ammonia hydroxide. It's poisonous to humans. 
    Have you ever wondered why unhealthy food is the cheapest? 

America's Food

An example of the red raw skin under the chicken
due to its inability to stand and dirty living conditions.

Perdue is a major chicken processing company in Salisbury, Maryland who made $6 billion is sales last year. The article titled Abusing Chickens We Eat by Nicholas Kristof of the NY Times. His argument is that they should be raised humanely, and if they're not then they can not false advertise on the label. They give the chickens hormones to make bigger breasts (white meat) and the weight it too much for their legs so they end up squatting in feces most of the time with burning red under bellies lacking feathers. If humans grew at the same rate that they make the chicken grow, a human would be 660 lbs at 8 weeks old. The best quote is "Torture a single chicken and you risk arrest. Abuse hundreds of thousands of chickens for their entire lives? That's agribusiness." It sums up the hypocriticalness of the laws and shows that things need to change. I believe that the abuse of these animals is wrong and something needs to change.

Dirty conditions

The Jungle is a novel written by Upton Sinclair about the conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and many other big cities in the U.S. it depicts working class poverty, the lack of social supports, harsh living conditions, and the workers hopelessness. Contrasted with corruption of people in power. The material was collected by Sinclair posing as a worker in a meat packaging plant. He was there for 7 weeks gathering and researching information. Teddy Roosevelt responded by appointing a commission of experts to investigate the meat packing industry. They soon after issued a report backing up Sinclair's account of the disgusting conditions inside. The living conditions in 1906 America were not good. They lived in dirty tenements and food was often laden in flies. The law passed worked to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and says that they have to be slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. 

Public Education and Inequality

One of the first public schools

America created public schools in order to train their citizens to be better knowledged. They wanted children to be better trained for the work force earlier.they believed that it would lead to greater financial security and a more stable democratic nation. 

The first schools had flaws. They were extremely strict with the students and that lead to a rise in truancy. 

It made a difference in not only the children's lives, but the parents also. Having the kids in school every day served as child care so that the parents could work. It also took the kids or of sweat shops. They learned a lot of important information that they wouldn't have known before. 

They perpetuated inequality by not allowing African American students inside their classrooms. 

Some other issues were that they lacked the funds for them. 

Another original public schoolhouse 

What happened to the 43?

They've had enough with the government , and this atrocious act was the last straw, which detonated a series of protests around the whole country. 

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/13/silence-speaks-ayotzinapa-and-politics-listening-mexicos-narco-state