Food Inc. Movie Review   

When I seen the movie Food Inc. it opened my eyes to a lot of things. One of the main things was all the problems it caused. One of the problems it caused was obesity and diabetes. There is a lot of meat produced by food companies in the United States. Which is why 1/3 of American are obese or overweight. One thing they can change is to reduce the production of meat and increase the production of organic products.

I think you should go see this movie because it can open your eyes to a lot of things. It opens your eyes to the problems that come with producing meat. At times it mite make you feel like you want to be a vegetarian but it tells you a lot of information. Some of the information it tells you is how terrible the work conditions are. A lot of workers get sick and injured during their job. If they change the way things are done for the workers and look at more organic foods it would make things a lot better.

Political Research: Kevin’s Law

It is nicknamed in memory of two year old Kevin Kowalcyk of Colorado. Kevin’s Law requires USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) the pathogens that threatened human health. The USDA if required to establish performance standards. It proposed legislation that would have given USDA to close down plants that produce contaminated meat. Some corporate meat processors have lobbied against Kevin’s law.

FDA Laws Governed:

• 1938 – Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

TO PROTECT CONSUMERS FROM UNSAFE OR DECEPTIVELY LABELED

OR PACKAGED PRODUCTS BY PROHIBITING THE MOVEMENT IN

INTERSTATE COMMERCE OF ADULTERATED OR MISBRANDED FOOD, DRUG, DEVICES AND COSMETICS.                                                                  http://www.makingcosmetics.com/articles/Cosmetic-Labeling-Guide-FDA.PDF

• Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004, PL 203 (Aug. 2, 2004)

(a) In General.--Section 403 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C.

343) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``(w)

(1) If it is not a raw agricultural commodity and it is, or it

contains an ingredient that bears or contains, a major food

allergen, unless either--

``(A) the word `Contains', followed by the name of the food

source from which the major food allergen is derived, is

printed immediately after or is adjacent to the list of

ingredients (in a type size no smaller than the type size used

in the list of ingredients) required (g) and

(i); or

``(B) the common or usual name of the major food allergen

in the list of ingredients required under subsections (g) and

(i) is followed in parentheses by the name of the food

source from which the major food allergen is derived,

except that the name of the food source is not required

when--

``(i) the common or usual name of the ingredient uses

the name of the food source from which the major

food allergen is derived; or

``(ii) the name of the food source from which the

major food allergen is derived appears elsewhere in

the ingredient list, unless the name of the food source

that appears elsewhere in the ingredient list appears

as part of the name of a food ingredient that is not a

major food allergen under section 201(qq)(2)(A) or

(B).

``(2) As used in this subsection, the term `name of the food source

from which the major food allergen is derived' means the name

described in section 201(qq)(1); provided that in the case of a tree

nut, fish, or Crustacean shellfish, the term `name of the food

source from which the major food allergen is derived' means the

name of the specific type of nut or species of fish or Crustacean

shellfish.

``(3) The information required under this

subsection may appear in labeling in lieu of

under subsections appearing on the label only if the Secretary finds.

http://www.alergialimentaria.org/documentos/03.pdf

USDA Laws Governed:

• 1923: Agricultural Credits Act

The Agricultural Credits Act of 1923 was one of several measures attempted to relieve the stubborn recession in the farm economy of the 1920s. It was part of the effort to develop special mechanisms for providing credit and loans specifically to farmers.
The act established a network of twelve Federal Intermediate Credit Banks in different regions of the country (corresponding to the twelve regional banks in the Federal Reserve System), each capitalized at $5 million, which were authorized to lend money to farm cooperative associations, which then relent it to farmers. Although helpful to some farmers, the new credit measures did not, historians argue, significantly address what many agree was the most important cause of the agricultural crisis -- overproduction.       http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/ammem/amrlhtml/dtcredag.html

• 1933: Farm Credit Act

The Farm Credit Act of 1933 (48 Stat. 257) made it possible for many farmers to keep their farms and survive the Great Depression. It did so by offering short-term loans for agricultural production as well as extended low interest rates for farmers threatened by foreclosure. Small farmers were able to refinance their mortgages with the aid of twelve district banks, called Banks for Cooperatives. A thirteenth bank served larger farming operations. Local Production Credit Associations provided short and intermediate term loans for seasonal production, insuring that farmers would not lose out on essential crop yields.

The act was passed on June 16, 1933, the last day of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Hundred Days" initiative, an effort by his Administration to quickly put in place measures to fight the Depression. Its stated purpose was to "provide for organizations within the Farm Credit Administration to make loans for the production and marketing of agricultural products, to amend the Federal Farm Loan Act, to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act, to provide a market for obligations of the United States, and for other purposes."

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3407400109.html

• 1957: Poultry Inspection Act

The Poultry Products Inspection Act of 1957 (P.L. 85-172, as amended) requires USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to inspect all domesticated birds when slaughtered and processed into products for human consumption. By regulation, FSIS has defined domesticated birds as chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and guinea fowl. Ratites were added in 2001. The primary goals of the law are to prevent adulterated or misbranded poultry and products from being sold as food, and to ensure that poultry and poultry products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. These requirements also apply to products produced and sold within states as well as to imports, which must be inspected under equivalent foreign standards (21 U.S.C. 451 et seq.).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poultry_Products_Inspection_Act_of_1957