Here are some questions to think about while watching the documentary, Food Inc.
Food, Inc.
1. What right to a certain quality of life do animals have?
How does the treatment of animals impact our food supply?
2. What right to do people have to know what is in their
food and/or how their food was grown or
raised?
3. Who is responsible for keeping our food safe? What are
the political realities connected to these decisions?
4. Should access to healthy food be a right for everyone?
Why or why not? Who should be in charge of this decision? What is the role of
government? Of business?
5. When deciding what
to eat, how much should we consider the workers who pick, process, and
transport it? How easy or difficult is it to find this information? What role
does/should social class/living wages play?
6. Does it matter to
you which food companies produce your food? Why or why not? How often do you
look at the company/conglomerate producing your food?
7. Should companies
be able to own the DNA contained in plant seeds? What are the advantages and/or
the disadvantages?
8. Should a company
have the power to decide what information to give consumers about the food it
produces? Why? What role should government play? Why?
9. What individual or
collective actions should consumers be willing to take to improve our food
system, and what would be their impact?
10. What roles do documentaries play in the mediated
messages about food?
