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。

Actually, it's a pretty easy decision to try to support things like organic, or whatever it might be, based on what the customer wants.
We see that and react to it.
So if it's clear the customer wants it, it's really easy to get behind it, to push forward and try to make that happen.
When I run into my old environmental friends, many are initially horrified by the kinds of company that I'm keeping these days.
But when I then go on to explain what the impact of one purchase order from Wal-Mart is, in terms of not pounds but tons of pesticide, tons of herbicide, tons of chemical fertilizer, the discussion-- we get away from the emotion and we get down to the facts.
This is really key, though, what you guys are doing here.
I have no illusions about this.
I don't believe that Wal-Mart has come here because they've suddenly had a moral enlightenment.
It's because of economics.
I can debate with my radical friends all day long, but nobody can challenge the fact that a sale of another million dollars to Wal-Mart helps to save the world.
Back around the turn of the last century, the average farmer could feed six or eight people.
Now the average American farmer can feed These are the most productive humans that have ever lived.
The changes down on the farm have been momentous and radical but invisible to most of us, 'cause who knows a farmer anymore?
But their way of life has been revolutionized.
farmers started saving their best seeds and planted again in the following year.
That's how seeds have been developed.
That's how corn was developed from a useless grass for the most part to the extremely productive plant it is today.
The idea that any corporation could own a food crop is a very new idea.
It wasn't until the 1980s that the Supreme Court said you could patent life.
And that opened the floodgates-- efforts to patent the most valuable parts of life, which is to say the crops on which we depend.
Monsanto is a chemical company.
They produced DDT, Agent Orange in Vietnam, and then they developed a product called "Roundup." We started hearing rumblings about genetically-engineered soybeans that could resist the application of Roundup.
When the Roundup was sprayed over top of it, it killed every weed out there except for this Roundup Ready soybean.
I can remember when the first prohibition against seed saving came into being.
Most farmers were just absolutely disgusted with the whole concept.