食品公司 Food, Inc. Movie Script

杰瑞发布于2022-11-07

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. 目前的生食生产方法在很大程度上是对20世纪50年代以来快餐业增长的回应。自那时以来,食品生产的总体变化比几千年前更为剧烈。主要由少数几家跨国公司控制的全球食品生产业务——重点是该业务——将以低直接投入(通常是补贴)生产大量食品作为其不成文的目标,从而带来巨大的利润,这反过来导致对这几家公司内全球食品供应的更大控制。健康和安全(食品本身、自己生产的动物、流水线上的工人以及实际食用食品的消费者的健康和安全)常常被公司忽视,而政府为了提供廉价食品而忽视了这些负面后果。

You know, the hog, they don't really have to worry about their comfort because they're temporary.
They're gonna be killed.
And they have the same viewpoint to the worker.
You're not worried about the longevity of the worker because, to them, everything has an end.
When you've got 2000 hogs an hour going through employees, because they're handling these guts so much, they get infections in their fingernails and all.
All their fingernails separate from their fingers.
You're covered with blood, feces, urine.
It's easy to get hurt down there.
You're doing that same movement for that same piece of the hog and it's nonstop, you know.
Basically you're treated as a human machine.
You get people that can't afford to leave from out there, and Smithfield knows this.
And that's what they hold over you.
when Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle" there was a beef trust that wielded enormous power.
Immigrants from Eastern Europe were being abused in the absence of any kind of government regulation There were horrible disfiguring injuries and even deaths.
Things got better.
They slowly got better.
Teddy Roosevelt took on the beef trust.
Labor unions slowly organized meatpacking workers and turned it into one of the best industrial jobs in the United States.
By the 1950s to be a meatpacking worker was like being an auto worker who has a good wage, good benefits, pension.
到了20世纪50年代,当一名肉类加工工人就像当一名汽车工人,有很好的工资、福利和养老金。
And then what happened?
Well, the meat-packing companies got bigger in order to serve the needs of the fast-food industry, which was its biggest customer.
Some of the meat-packing companies like IBP borrowed the same sort of labor practices from the fast food industry-- cutting wages, making sure there were no unions, speeding up production, and having the worker do the same task again and again and again.
And meat-packing is now one of the most dangerous jobs in the United States.
The meat-packing industry also recruited a new set of immigrants-- illegal immigrants and recent immigrants from Mexico.
Many of the illegal immigrants coming to America were corn farmers in Mexico.