Food, Inc

Having been suspicious that there is many things hidden from us about what we eat and where our food comes from, the documentary "Food, Inc" confirmed all these suspicions and made me think even more and question about the origin of our food. There is a veil between "us" the consumer and where our food is coming from ("supermarkets" and "farms"). These multi-national corporations are mass producing using enormous assembly lines and abusing animals but the workers as well. There as a lot of politics beneath all this and it upsets me very much knowing that there are so many inconsiderate people out there not caring what so ever about the health of millions of people living in the United States, a majority of which have gotten sick and died from eating meat that has been infected with bacteria. It suits these corporations to have us living in complete ignorance and threatening the farmers that if they speak they will be sued. As a citizen of this country I demand that I know where my food is coming from. People around us are getting sick and we don't know what is causing all these illnesses. Young children are dying from eating a simple hamburger and no one is doing anything to stop this. It makes me angry. It makes me angry that I have no say in this, that I can't find the truth about the food I'm eating. Our food is being produced in unsanitary conditions, sold to us at the supermarkets where everything looks nice and clean. We are living in an iconic reality where everything seems perfect but underneath it all we will find a lot of "dirt". I recall many times when friends of mine have gotten sick with stomach viruses after eating at certain fast food places. I personally have stopped eating from certain fast food chain stores just because I don't trust the way they cook their food and they might be cooking the food in unsanitary conditions as well. I worry about my health daily and what might happen to me in the future from eating all these different kinds of food either from fast food stores or from the meat I buy at the super market. We really have no choice to where we buy our food and the origin of our food. The only choice we have is to buy organic food but unfortunately the prices of organic food are slightly expensive and not that many people can afford it. Which brings us to the same conclusion that people have no choice then to buy cheap, unhealthy food that will harm their health. We have to speak up and protest against these companies that are taking advantage of us and taking our money mean while they don't have any consideration for our health. These multi million companies make their money from producing a lot of meat in small land, instead of growing a chicken in 3 months, they will grow it in 49 days. Chickens have gotten fat and big, they can't even walk from the size they've grown too. One farmer let us in her chicken coop and the conditions under where she grew her chickens was totally unsanitary, a simple disgrace. Of course she wasn't allowed by the company she had a contract with to show us the coop, that is why they banned their contract with her. They simply threaten any farmer that speaks, they take advantage of the workers, they abuse the animals and we have no idea all this is happening behind our backs. We live in complete obliviousness. Now, knowing what goes on and the hidden truth about our food, I will start questioning more about what I eat and be more careful to what I buy from the supermarkets. What we eat is an important factor to our daily life, to our health. What we feed our children should make us more aware about this issue and not let it slip out of our hands. We need to make a step, speak up and let them know we won't take anymore lies.