Food Inc.

          I grew up watching my grandfather slaughter chickens in Puerto Rico. He used to do it in a very certain way. He would take the white chicken by its legs and cut their throats. Of course my grandmother covered my eyes for that. I was a very young girl back then and I was very interested in what my grandfather was doing. He would take out its feathers first, then burn the chicken itself so it doesn't have any feathers left. Once the corpse was cleaned, he would call me over and show me different organs because he wanted to show me the internal anatomy of the chicken. He showed me the chicken's liver, then he showed me its stomach - and then he opened it up to show me what the chickens were eating - it was funny because all I saw was a greenish-yellowish paste with rocks in between. Then he took out the heart.

        I was amused by Food Inc. because of the way they have slaughtered the chickens. It looks like a torture not only for the animals, but also for the farmers. Usually, people in the United States of America do not care where their food comes from, but I strongly suggest for everyone to watch this movie. It shows the realities of agricultural hardships, what farmers have to upgrade from their usual traditions to what the companies implied them to do so. Throughout the movie, what has caught my attention the most, was a woman whose contract with a company was terminated because she did not want to change the setting of her "chicken house". Also the figurative numbers shown in the movie, what kind of debt the farmers have to go into to build such a house was anywhere from $300,000 - $500,000 where their yearly income was only $18,000.
       Now I am debating whether or not should I be a vegetarian. :)