Extra Credit Food Inc.- November 29, 2011

Central Argument:

The industries doesn't want you to know what your eating . The people have the right to know where and what is the food coming from that they are eating from fast foods and grocery stores. 

Assertion 1: The food companies don't want the farmers talking about what goes on behind the scenes to the public, because if the public knew the truth they might not want to eat their food.

Assertion 2: The whole industrial food system began with fast food.

Assertion 3: The in industries changed the entire way chickens,cows, and pigs are raised.

Assertion 4: After the decline of tobacco farmers went to chicken farming.

Assertion 5: The companies keep the farmers under their thumb because of the debt the farmers have to them, and their contract.

Assertion 6: A typical grower who have chicken houses barrows over 500,000 dollars. And earns about 18,000 dollars a year.

Assertion 7: There is a illusion of diversity of where your food comes from in grocery stores and fast food restraints.

Assertion 8: The government pays the corn farmers and other food farmers to over produce.

Assertion 9: Corn is the main component in food ingredients. And also corn is being used to feed the animals in food factories.

Assertion 10: The food factory farming is so caught of with technology and how its improving the economic growth. They will continue to treat animals with disrespect  and used to make different products of foods.

Assertion 11: As soon as when you want your farming industries to grow your going to view the things that are important to you like costumers, workers, and animals differently.

Opinion topic: The food incorporation are keeping the public in the dark about where their food is coming from, and what they are doing to them. They are also keeping the public in the dark about how they  are treating the animals and what they would do to make economic growth. The public as the right to this behind the scenes information for the fast food companies and all the food companies. Because the public eats and buys their product.