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。

How about a nice chicken club sandwich made with fresh cooked chicken?
You know, that's a nice idea, but I think what I'd really like - is a burger.
- All right.
My favorite meal to this day remains a hamburger and french fries.
I had no idea that a handful of companies had changed what we eat and how we make our food.
I've been eating this food all my life without having any idea where it comes from, any idea how powerful this industry is.
And it was the idea of this world deliberately hidden from us.
I think that's one of the reasons why I became an investigative reporter, was to take the veil-- lift the veil away from important subjects that are being hidden.
The whole industrial food system really began with fast food.
In the 1930s, a new form of restaurant arose and it was called the drive-in.
The McDonald brothers had a very successful drive-in, but they decided to cut costs and simplify.
So they fired all their carhops, they got rid of most of the things on the menu and they created a revolutionary idea to how to run a restaurant.
They basically brought the factory system to the back of the restaurant kitchen.
They trained each worker to just do one thing again and again and again.
By having workers who only had to do one thing, they could pay them a low wage and it was very easy to find someone to replace them.
It was inexpensive food, it tasted good and this McDonald's fast food restaurant was a huge huge success.
That mentality of uniformity, conformity and cheapness applied widely and on a large scale has all kinds of unintended consequences.
When McDonald's is the largest purchaser of ground beef in the United States and they want their hamburgers to taste, everywhere, exactly the same, they change how ground beef is produced.
The McDonald's corporation is the largest purchaser of potatoes and one of the largest purchasers of pork, chicken, tomatoes, lettuce, even apples.
These big big fast food chains want big suppliers.
And now there are essentially a handful of companies controlling our food system.
In the 1970s, the top five beef-packers controlled only about 25% of the market.
Today, the top four control more than 80% of the market.
You see the same thing happening now in pork.
Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating meat that's being produced by this system.