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Food Inc. is a documentary that is out to reveal the current state of American food industries and shows the mass production of food. Shockingly, this film is extremely one sided. Throughout the film there are certain things that are misrepresented and are only given an opinion from one…

 First of all, I think you’re right—it is easy to paint a giant corporation as the evil villian. That said, when it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck…While individuals and companies do have a right to protect their creations, I am not sure if genetically modified food could really be their “creation.” Also, most of the farmers they shut down, never intentionally stole Monsanto seed. They were simply unluckly enough to be neighboring a farm that did use the seed. Wind here is the real culprit. Saving seeds may be illegal, but it also used to be illegal to teach a slave how to read. I believe King would consider the seed law to be unjust. My point is that legality or illegality is not the same thing as right and wrong. Despite what I have said, I don’t think it does any good to paint the company as evil. Monsanto is doing what they are supposed to do—make money. That is their only consideration. Perhaps, we, as a nation, need to rethink that priority.

 To compare the reproduction of seeds to the oppression of negros education to me seems to bit harsh of a point over view! However, the issues do appear to be relevent in the ways of not giving fair oppertuinity to the person who should have civil rights. the case pointed out from the writer I do find agreeable, because if i were to create something that would be reproduceable I to would patend my product to be sold through me only, in hopes to keep my busy running…

I wasn’t comparing saving seeds to teaching slaves how to read. I was trying to make the point the legal vs. illegal is not the same as wrong vs. right. Clearly, teaching someone to read is a good thing to do regardless of what a law says.