Introduction
We recently watched the documentary Food Inc. The film examines the meat, grain, and vegetable industries. It also informs us on the labelling of our food. While the film writer is very critical of our country's "agribusiness", he doesn't offer any solutions about how we could fix the problem. The film seems to be very biased against the big companies, which the writer says wasn't his original intention. He wanted to be unbiased and present the facts, but many of the companies refused to be interviewed.
Task
Your task is to come up with the "big company's" argument about why the Food Inc. documentary is untrue. You will pretend that you work for one of the companies mentioned in the video
- Monsanto Company
- Perdue Farms
- Tyson Foods
- Smithfield Foods
You will write a response to be sent to the author of Food Inc. In order to complete your task, you will need to visit various websites and read articles that the companies wrote in response to Food Inc. Use the information from these sources in your argument.
Process
Click on the links below to read the articles written in response to Food Inc.
The National Chicken Council
Monsanto Company
Is Food Inc. Unbiased?
Evaluation
- Decide what company you want to represent.
- Get out a sheet of paper.
- Come up with a 3 minute speech that you will use to represent your company's position.