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i have attached the fileSociology of Food SOCI 238: Food Documentary Film Analysis For this assignment you will be conducting a critical analysis of a food documentary. Your analysis will  need to respond to the questions below (PART 1 and PART 2). PART 1 is generic – everyone will need to  answer these questions and PART 2 questions are specific to the film you choose so please read the  instructions carefully. Organization:   ▪ Your complete assignment must be between 1000 - 1500 words (4-6 pages double spaced).    ▪ Your assignment MUST be in a .doc or .docx (word) or PDF   ▪ Your assignment will be checked by anti-plagiarism software Assignment Instructions:   Choose one of the three following films to watch and then answer the questions below.      1. Cowspiracy (Available on course site and on Netflix)   2. Food Inc. (Available on course site and online)   3. Fed Up (Available online and Amazon Prime)       PART ONE:    First, answer all of these questions (2 pages, double spaced)      1. Briefly describe what the film is about and the position that it advocates.   2. List five statistics given in the film that you found alarming and explain how each fact relates to  the film’s premise or main theme. Explain the significance or implication of these facts.   3. Does this film shed light on the food system? How so? Explain.    4. Give a brief account of your own personal reaction to the film. i.e. How did the film make you  feel?  What aspect of the film did you most engage with? What does it make you think about? PART TWO:    For this part, answer the questions that relate to the documentary you chose to watch (2-3 pages,  double spaced).        For Food Inc. Answer these additional questions: 1. What does the industrial food system look like? What are the key features and characteristics of this  food system? What are the consequences and implications of this industrial food system? Consider:  Economic, political, social, environmental and ethical dimensions.    2. What did you learn from this film about the relationship between how our food is produced and the  state of human health, workers’ rights, animal welfare and our ecosystem?   3. What are the efficiencies and inefficiencies of corporate concentration in our food system?   4. How do inequalities of power (i.e. lobby groups) from the food industry shape food policy?    5. What individual or collective actions are required in order to improve our food system, and what would  their impact be?       For Cowspirarcy: The Sustainability Secret - answer these questions:    1. What are the impacts of agricultural practices on the environment? (e.g. land, soil, water, air & climate).  What is the potential impact of climate change on future food production?   2. What kind of power (i.e. economic, political etc.) does the Animal Agriculture lobby have? How does this  power shape our food systems?   3. What are the environmental and political implications of our food choices? Explain   4. Is a vegetarian diet more environmentally friendly than eating meat? Explain and assess your reasoning  with reference to the film Cowspirarcy.   5. How can we as individual citizens encourage policymakers and change makers to address the problems  inherent in animal agriculture and overfishing? For Fed Up Answer these additional Questions:       1. How has the inclusion of sugar in our food changed over the years and who is responsible for this  change?    2. What are the implications of so much additional sugar being added to our food?    3. Why is the U.S. leading the world in obesity? What is it about the North American food system that has  allowed the food industry to let this problem get so out of hand?   4. Do you think the film placed too much focus on sugar as the primary culprit in obesity? What, if any,  factors were overlooked in the wider issue of obesity?   5. What was served in your school cafeterias - including Humber’s? Where else do you see the problem of  processed and high-sugar foods in your life? What can you do about it?

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SOCIOLOGY OF FOOD SOCI 238: FOOD DOCUMENTARY FILM ANALYSIS
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Table of Contents
Part A	3
Part B	5
References	8
Part A
The documentary project Fed Up is investigating the pestilence of weight, the attention is on adolescent heftiness. This narrative brings issues to light as well as gives substantial realities depicting the reason for heftiness. It presents numerous points of view on the food business from clients themselves, the political viewpoint, and the maker point of view. In this narrative gets expressed that our country's corpulence issue lies in our country: our food industry. Food ventures make us think we are the issue for weight gain, due to this generalization individuals aimlessly follow the food business' ideas and rules, accepting that they are making the best decision (Peterson, 2018). This narrative brings the point that it is not generally the issue with us, however the issue exists in what our food ventures tell us is "Healthy". Good food shopping is difficult nowadays, in light of store format (quality food sources are close to hold with handled food sources), purposeful food shows, undesirable food are directly with sales enrolls right before us. Around 600 thousand new "Less Fat", "Low Fat" and "Better" food items show up in supermarket retires each year, and 80 percent of those new items contain added sugar. In the narrative, Robert Lusting clarifies for added sugar.  By eliminating fats from food, it loses its character and taste. To make this "Lowe Fat", food sources taste better and individuals would get them, food enterprises need to supplant fat with sugar, they need to build sugar rate in this food.
Sugar is perilously habit-forming (Knee & Musser, 2021). As realities state, between the long stretches of 1977 and 2000, Americans have multiplied their admission of sugar. Another reality what the narrative brings up is a contention that wellness and heftiness are multiplying together. Insights show that exercise center participations and diet crazes have multiplied, stoutness has tracked with it. Dr. Imprint Hyman states that 2 out of 3 Americans are overweight. The narrative clarifies the explanation it is that way. That individuals need to consume the quantity of calories they consumption by practice is bogus. Margo Wooton, a wellbeing advocate, expresses a model, to consume calories what we devour by drinking one twenty-ounce pop, pre-adulthood would have to bicycle for one hour and fifteen minutes. That shows that it is difficult to consume all calories that we burn-through by working out. Another misguided judgment what the narrative focused is that practicing good eating habits is costly.
We know quick food sources as a comfort and modest food, we can concur it very well may be an accommodation yet is it less expensive. In the narrative, they analyzed the cost of home cook suppers for the whole family versus cheap food. The home prepared dinner was more affordable as cheap food feast.

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