食品公司 Food, Inc. Movie Script

杰瑞发布于07 Nov 18:04

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。

When you go through the supermarket, what looks like this cornucopia of variety and choice is not.
There is an illusion of diversity.
There are only a few companies involved and there're only a few crops involved.
What really surprised me most as I followed that food back to its source, I kept ending up in the same place, and that was a cornfield in Iowa.
So much of our industrial food turns out to be clever rearrangements of corn.
Corn has conquered the world in a lot of ways.
It is a remarkable plant.
a farmer in America could grow maybe 20 bushels of corn on an acre.
Today, 200 bushels is no problem.
That's an astonishing achievement for which breeders deserve credit, for which fertilizer makers deserve credit, for which pesticide makers all deserve credit.
In the United States today, is being planted to corn.
That's largely driven by government policy, government policy that, in effect, allows us to produce corn below the cost of production.
The truth of the matter is we're paid to overproduce, and it was caused by these large multinational interests.
The reason our government's promoting corn-- the Cargills, the ADMs, Tyson, Smithfield-- they have an interest in purchasing corn below the cost of production.
They use that interest and that extensive amount of money they have to lobby Congress to give us the kind of farm bills we now have.
A "farm bill," which should really be called a "food bill," codifies the rules of the entire food economy.
Farm policy is always focused on these commodity crops because you can store them.
We encourage farmers to grow as much corn as they can grow, to get big, to consolidate.
We subsidize farmers by the bushel.
We produced a lot of corn and they came up with uses for it.
We are now engineering our foods.
We know where to turn to for certain traits like mouth feel and flavor.
And we bring all of these pieces together and engineer new foods that don't stale in the refrigerator, don't develop rancidity.
Of course the biggest advance in recent years was high-fructose corn syrup.
You know, I would venture to guess if you go and look on the supermarket shelf, I'll bet you 90% of them would contain either a corn or soybean ingredient, and most of the time will contain both.