Food Inc.

From watching this video I couldn't believe how many things that surprised me about where are food is from and how it is produced. Here are some interesting/scary facts I learned from watching this video:

• Chickens are raised and slaughtered in half the time it takes them naturally and they are twice the size.
• The chickens bones and internal organs can't keep up with their rapid growth so they can only take a few steps before falling over.
• It is extremely dark inside the chicken houses so that the chickens will lie down and it will make them less resistant when they are taken to be killed.
• I also didn't know it was traditionally black men who caught the chickens, but now it is usually Latinos. 
• After a decline in the tobacco industry, many farmers turned to chicken farming.
• There are many different products that corn is found in and you would never expect it to be in the product. For example, in batteries, Twinkies and ketchup.
• Many animals are fed corn that shouldn't be fed it. Farmers do this because it is cheap and it makes the animals fat.
• Meat packaging is now one of the most dangerous jobs in America.
• Many of the employees in the meat packaging industry are illegal immigrants.
• Lastly, one in three Americans will contract diabetes type 2 at an early age.

  

  http://www.amateurgourmet.com/2009/06/foodinc.html