ABSTRACT
The documentary “Food Inc.” challenges viewers to reevaluate their food choices. Our group accepted the challenge by asking and exploring this question: What factors contribute to a person’s diet?
Many people would not think to ask themselves this question because it is so easy (especially in America) to take food for granted. Besides, it is such a common, instinctual act that most people perform it the same way throughout their lives. Yet that is why it can be so deceptive. How did we learn our dietary habits? Where do they come from?Should one- and could one- break out of these habits? And perhaps most importantly, which diet is healthiest?
In order to explore this question our group began focusing attention on the differences between omnivores and vegetarians. Our group interviewed four people, each with a different experience and different view on food: a omnivore (audio and video), a vegetarian (audio and video), a former vegetarian/pescatarian (audio), and an
omnivore in the transition phase of becoming a vegetarian. Our group consulted several articles and other factual sources to balance our interviewees' claims with scientific, medical, and historical research. It is our duty as citizens to acknowledge the truths behind the industrial food industry and be responsible in our decisions in eating food.
Many people would not think to ask themselves this question because it is so easy (especially in America) to take food for granted. Besides, it is such a common, instinctual act that most people perform it the same way throughout their lives. Yet that is why it can be so deceptive. How did we learn our dietary habits? Where do they come from?Should one- and could one- break out of these habits? And perhaps most importantly, which diet is healthiest?
In order to explore this question our group began focusing attention on the differences between omnivores and vegetarians. Our group interviewed four people, each with a different experience and different view on food: a omnivore (audio and video), a vegetarian (audio and video), a former vegetarian/pescatarian (audio), and an
omnivore in the transition phase of becoming a vegetarian. Our group consulted several articles and other factual sources to balance our interviewees' claims with scientific, medical, and historical research. It is our duty as citizens to acknowledge the truths behind the industrial food industry and be responsible in our decisions in eating food.