纪录片《食品公司》曝光美国食品工业内幕

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纪录片《食品公司》将于6月12日在美国纽约、洛杉矶和旧金山上映。用影片主演、作家迈克尔·波利安的话说,“这部电影揭开(美国)食品生产行业的内幕”。

工厂制造

美国一些食品的包装上印有牲畜在绿油油的草场里啃食的图案,让人感觉食品产地天然、卫生、没有受到工业污染。但是,《食品公司》告诉观众,这是一种假象。

路透社9日援引波利安的话说:“那些产品贴着农场标签,实际上它们都是工厂制造得来。”波利安写过几本有关食品与健康话题的畅销书。

影片告诉观众,美国畜牧业现在广泛运用工业技术饲养牲畜,这些技术给健康带来负面影响,例如引起肥胖、糖尿病、沙门氏菌感染等,还导致环境污染。

波利安在影片中说,把牲畜集中圈养的工业化饲养方式“依赖在饲料中添加抗生素,导致对抗生素有抗药性的一些疾病”。

路透社报道,美国几家大型肉制品企业均拒绝摄制组拍摄它们的生产过程。影片中出现的一些牲畜饲养场所由在那里工作的工人偷拍。画面显示,那些饲养场空间狭窄。

马里兰州农场主卡萝尔·莫里森同意摄制组的拍摄要求。镜头显示,她饲养的鸡运往市场销售前已经快要死掉或要病倒。莫里森说,出现这种状况部分原因是饲料中有使牲畜体重迅速增加的抗生素。

呼唤觉醒

《食品公司》的拍摄手法是通过采访一些专家表达导演的观点,或是随着与企业家的对话,展示一些前瞻性思考,其中一些一手资料直接揭露了市场的阴暗面。

影片在抨击工业化饲养牲畜的同时,呼吁消费者拿出行动来支持企业以天然方式生产食品。

片中提到一家为大型连锁超市沃尔玛供货的农场。影片解说词说,这家农场之所以会生产有机产品,是因为有市场需求。

“你吃到的是什么取决于你在超市买的是什么,”波利安说。

波利安在著作《守住食物:一个食者的宣言》中倡导人们吃“真正的、来自健康和自然成长过程的食物”。

他说,人是食物链中的一环,人的健康离不开整个食物链的健康。

联合反击

罗伯特·肯纳导演的这部纪录片最先于去年9月在加拿大多伦多上映,今年2月又亮相于德国柏林电影节。

虽然影片现在才准备和美国观众见面,但是矛头所指的美国肉制品商早已联合起来采取行动反击。

它们创立几家旨在树立正面形象的网站,其中一家网站在电影名字Food, Inc.前加上“安全”二字,名叫“安全食品公司网”(SafeFoodInc.com)。网站宣称,美国食品“安全、买得起、供应充足”。

在一个食品行业组织任顾问的营养学家莉萨·卡蒂奇则认为,《食品公司》存在大量误导信息。

此外,虽然影片意图揭露美国牲畜生长条件恶劣的状况,但是美国农场管理局负责人梅斯·桑顿说,美国农场重视牲畜生长状况。

路透社援引桑顿的话说:“如果农场主或牧场主不关心他们的牲畜,他们的生意就做不下去。”(欧飒)

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效率就 效率就是一

效率就是一切吗

中文片名：食品公司 又 名：毒食难肥英文片名：Food, Inc.

导 演：罗伯特·肯纳Robert Kenner 主演：迈克尔·波伦Michael Pollan 埃里克·施洛瑟 Eric

Schlosser

简介：你是否知道，一只鸡从诞生到进入超市的周期只需要48天？这是正常的吗？这部纪录片探讨了，粮食是如何成长的，人们对粮食的担忧，例如每年都会引发因为食物而产生的肠道疾病，等等的诸多

问题。这部影片也在号召大家尽量的去食用天然食品，而不是转基因类的食品。

客观点说，食品公司完美地运用了泰勒的科学管理，把工作分解为简单重复的步骤，高效地生产出了大量的食品，以少量的人员供养了大部分的人口。而代价是把劳动者以及其低廉的价格被当作机器使用并且可以随时被替换；食物中细菌的超标导致的多启食物死亡事件；环境的污染和工厂工人的人身健康安全问

题...我们似乎正在被大型食品公司控制我们的生活却完全对我们吃下去的东西一无所知。

你能想像给本来吃草的牛喂食玉米吗仅仅因为玉米的廉价；你能想像除了激素还要什么能使需要3个月才能长大的鸡现在只要1个月而体型是原来的2倍；你能想像我们吃的用的有80%都以玉米为原料吗，包括可口可乐、花生酱、纸尿裤；你能想像为什么汉堡的价格要比蔬菜更便宜吗（在美国）；你能想像因为

我们过度的摄入糖类导致胰岛素分泌出问题而产地糖尿病在不仅成人而且儿童之前的普及（没错，是普及）

吗……

不可否认，食品生产的工业化带来了效率，但高效就一定是好的吗？为此我们似乎付出了太多隐形的代价。政府的政策是可以补救的，可以为食品安全提供更高的保障，可以攫取利益为目的的食品公司的高层们怎么可能允许自己的巨额利润被吞食。所以，可以毫不客气的说，政府与食品公司就TMD狼狈为奸，

隐瞒消费者，甚至立法维护大型食品的肮脏内心。

看完这部纪录片，确实让人有点毛骨悚然，恐惧在我们周围还有什么是真正可以吃的安全健康的食品。尽管这里是中国，可难保社会的发展不会使现在的美国成为将来的中国，有数的几家食品公司却控制了几乎全国的食品。诚然，美国的最发达的国家，但这种发达有时也不是什么好事，发达说不定只是加快毁灭的另一种表现，希望中国能从中汲取一些教训，注重食品安全，不要让快餐、肥胖、疾病毁掉我们的下一代。而我们自己能做的是，尽量吃的健康，选择有机的天然的当地的食品，不要给你自己还要你的孩子吃那些垃圾快餐食品，真的绝对不要！天知道你吃下去的那块含有上千只碎牛肉的肉块中会有多少危险啊。多看标签，起码得知道你都吃进去了些什么吧。请相信，一个人的力量很小，但是有需求就会有供给，当

大家都要求健康天然的食品时，超市的货柜上也就不会全被食品公司控制了。

Ps：竟然在电影中看到了老爹以前在的美国孟山都公司，而且，果然不是好名声。。。 Storyline

The current method of raw food production is largely a response to the growth of the fast food industry since the 1950s. The production of food overall has more drastically changed since that time than the several thousand years prior. Controlled primarily by a handful of multinational corporations, the global food production business - with an emphasis on the business - has as its unwritten goals production of large quantities of food at low direct inputs (most often subsidized) resulting in enormous profits, which in turn results in greater control of the global supply of food sources within these few companies. Health and safety (of the food itself, of the animals produced themselves, of the workers on the assembly lines, and of the consumers actually eating the food) are often overlooked by the companies, and are often overlooked by government in an effort to provide cheap food regardless of these negative consequences... Written by Huggo

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stuff to know, whether you like it or not... if you like it, I don't know what to do for you

27 June 2009 | by doctorlightning (United States) – See all my reviews

Efficiency is everything?

Food, Inc is essential viewing even though it's not a great movie. it's the precious interviews the director gets, and just leaving the theater knowing that American food is run by four corporations and that the farming industry is in deep trouble. It's separated into sections, and every part has something interesting. The most unimaginable one was the section on chickens. How they, like cows as well, are genetically engineered to get bigger a lot faster than they used to. There was just one woman accepting interview, the only one who let the cameras go in to the chicken coop. Even if people hasn't seen a regular chicken coop before, they will aloes shock by the sight of this place, the stark and dark scene. There is some hope the film provides, however. A Virginia farmer, who treats all of his livestock with care and feeds them right, gives a few moments to reflect on how the ideal of the American farmer.

After watching the movie, I began to think whether totally healthy food exists or not. Although I’m in China, the development of Chinese society will probably make the future of my country like today’s American. So China should sum up experience and draw lessons from the USA.

Food, Inc can make some sort of difference, if only for the information. I know I may not stop eating certain foods, but I'll never forget to give another look or a double take on what's in it- or what may not be there at all.

 

第二篇：Food Inc

The industry changed the entire way that chicken are raised. Birds are now raised and slaughtered in half the time they were 50 years ago, but now they're twice as big. People like to eat white meat, so they redesigned the chicken to have large breasts. They not only changed the chicken, they changed the farmer. Today, chicken farmers no longer control their birds.

A company like Tyson owns the birds from the day they're dropped off until the day that they're slaughtered.

“Let me go to the top.”

“This is the Chicken.”

National Chicken Council. The chicken industry has really set a model for the integration of production, processing and marketing of the products that other industries are now following because they see that we’ve achieved tremendous economies.

In a way, we're not producing chickens; we're producing food. It's all highly mechanized. So all the birds coming off those farms have to be almost exactly the same size. What the system of intensive production accomplishes is to produce a lot of food on a small amount of land at a very affordable price. Now somebody explain to me what's wrong with that.

Smells like money to me. 16 chicken houses sit here. And Chuck's son has four over the top of this hill. The chicken industry came in here and it's helped this whole community out. Here's my chicken houses here. I have about 300,000 chickens. What do you want? We have a contract with Tyson. They've been growing chickens for many many years. And it's all a science. They got it figured out. If you can grow a chicken in 49 days, why would you want one you gotta grow in three months? More money in your pocket. These chickens never see sunlight. They're pretty much in the dark all the time.

“So you think they just want to keep us out?”

“I don't know. If I knew, I'd tell you. It would be nice if **** could see what we really do, but as far as **** going in, we can't let you do that.”

I understand why farmers don't want to talk, because the company can

do what it wants to do as far as pay goes since they control everything.

But it's just got to the point that it's not right what's going on

and I've just made up my mind. I'm gonna say what I have to say. I understand why others don't want to do it. And I'm just to a point that it doesn't matter anymore. Something has to be said. It is nasty in here.Others dust flying everywhere. There's feces everywhere. This isn't farming. This is just mass production, like an assembly line in a factory. When they grow from a chick in seven weeks you've got a five-and-a-half- pound chicken, their bones and their internal organs can't keep up with the rapid growth. A lot of these chickens here, they can take a few steps

and they plop down. It's because they can't keep up all the weight

that they're carrying. That's normal. There's antibiotics that's put into the feed and of course that passes through the chicken. The bacteria builds up a resistance, so antibiotics aren't working anymore. I have become allergic to all antibiotics and can't take it.