The documentary, Food Inc by Robert Kenner demonstrates how multinational corporations purposely manipulate consumers, workers, and even animals to reduce costs and increase production. The farmers are greatly effected by this one-sided control of the farming industry. Carole Morison, a Perdue farmer describes this situation brilliantly when she says “ “the corporations keep the farmers under their thumb because of the debt the farmers accrue. “they(farmers) have no say in their business, and it is like being a slave to the companies(food Inc). Since the companies mainly develop the contract and not the farmers, the companies use that opportunity to make necessary components of farming extravagantly expensive in order to make the farmers accrue a massive amount of debt. For example a typical grower with two chicken houses has borrowed over $500,000 and earns about $18,000 a year. This distance in earnings per year and the amount of money needed for a important part of farming for multinational companies is what forces farmers into this black hole of debt.
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