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Welcome to Food, Inc. <\/em> Your hunger will here be suppressed with high-tech nutrition that\u2019s accelerated more the last fifty years than since the Stone Age.\u00a0 Don\u2019t be overwhelmed.\u00a0 We know you weekly stroll through a typical supermarket\u2019s forty-seven thousand products and enjoy the orderly world designed by a handful of giant companies that produce and sell most of what you eat.<\/p>\n

Admit you\u2019re thankful for the quality and convenience.\u00a0 You\u2019ll never have to worry what season it is since we pick unready fruit and vegetables then ripen them with ethanol gas that makes them bright and pretty year round on your produce shelves.\u00a0 And when you look at rows of meat unmarred by bones, thank Henry Ford for devising mass production principles that other entrepreneurs later applied to farms and fast food factories where workers are trained to incessantly do the same thing.\u00a0 People may burn out but that\u2019s irrelevant since their mindless tasks can be cheaply replicated.<\/p>\n

As our companies continue to grow, scientists are empowered to create the most astonishing products.\u00a0 Your favorite is our high-tech chickens twice traditional size yet raised and slaughtered in half the time.\u00a0 This process is most effective on little patches of land in feces-clotted chicken houses from which occupants never see sunlight.\u00a0 You\u2019re surely shocked some do-gooders have complained.\u00a0 Chickens, after all, don\u2019t need to interact with the sun.\u00a0 They\u2019re pacified by underdeveloped organs and bones unable to support their massive chests of delicious white meat.\u00a0 No matter.\u00a0 They never need to walk far if at all, and at night are herded into cages then put onto trucks soon returning to remind farmers they must keep investing to upgrade production.\u00a0 They shouldn\u2019t complain since a new chicken house is only a quarter million dollars or so.<\/p>\n

Corn powers this new world of food as much as cash.\u00a0 Indeed, corn is cash, and thirty percent of agricultural land is devoted to it.\u00a0 That\u2019s vital since cows born to eat grass now eat corn that fattens them rapidly and is also used in a multitude of products in your supermarkets. \u00a0The cows don\u2019t mind eating corn despite standing ankle deep in their manure all day.\u00a0 And we hope you don\u2019t mind the hides of cows at slaughterhouses are caked with manure and thousands of different cows are ground into one hamburger so you can\u2019t taste a little shit.\u00a0 Sometimes people swallow E. coli bacteria or other impurities and get sick or die but this is rare or you wouldn\u2019t keep eating so many hamburgers.\u00a0 They\u2019re cheaper than vegetables and busy parents can drive right through and grab greasy food guaranteed to fill.\u00a0 Your kids may be getting fat and diabetic but that\u2019s tolerable when executives get rich.<\/p>\n

Trust us.\u00a0 We\u2019re also personnel experts trained to hire workers we can exploit.\u00a0 Poor whites and blacks used to slave in slaughterhouses until they found something else and are now often replaced by illegal immigrants unlikely to complain much about low pay, no unions, and dangerous working conditions.\u00a0 There\u2019s food to make.\u00a0 At Smithfield, the largest slaughterhouse in the world, in Tar Heel, North Carolina, thirty-two thousand excrement-covered animals are killed in a sixteen hour day.\u00a0 Thankfully, government isn\u2019t as petulant about food as tobacco and, rather than busting Smithfield for massive immigration violations, lets the company expel about fifteen workers a day.\u00a0 Some of these illegal immigrants go to jail and others are deported but that\u2019s how billions are made.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t complain.\u00a0 You aren\u2019t hungry.\u00a0 Our systems make sure of that.\u00a0 A century ago one farmer fed six to eight people.\u00a0 Now each farmer feeds a hundred twenty-six.\u00a0 Efficiency is the key.\u00a0 And the Monsanto Company is one of the kings.\u00a0 After a distinguished period producing Agent Orange to defoliate North Vietnam, Monsanto has grown its Roundup Ready production from two percent of the soybean market in 1996 to ninety percent in 2008.\u00a0 Farmers must not try to save these genetically-created seeds or roving teams of Monsanto investigators will swoop on them with patent violations.\u00a0 Farmers should realize they are very lucky and would if they read this on the Monsanto website: \u201cRoundup Ready Soybean varieties contain in-plant tolerance to Roundup agricultural herbicides. This means you can spray Roundup agricultural herbicides in-crop from emergence through flowering for unsurpassed weed control, proven crop safety and maximum yield potential.\u201d\u00a0 The results include \u201cMaximum profit opportunity\u2026 Efficiency\u2026 (and) Convenience.\u201d<\/p>\n

And don\u2019t let the crusaders frighten you about the billions of cloned animals Food, Inc.<\/em> is planning to feed you.\u00a0 Our executives know what is best and believe government shouldn\u2019t have forced us to provide calorie information about fast food or detailed labels on packaged nutrition in supermarkets.\u00a0 And what was that uproar about tobacco?\u00a0 Remember all those suited tobacco executives lined up at a table before the Congress of the United States, testifying one by one they did not believe smoking caused lung cancer.\u00a0 They\u2019re our brothers.\u00a0 Trust us, too.<\/p>\n

Sources: The documentary Food, Inc<\/em>.; Monsanto.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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