Everyday my boys ask me the same question: "What's for dinner?". On the days that they do not talk me into ordering pizza or going for fast food, I put a great deal of effort into providing, what I believed to be, well-balanced and healthy meals. After viewing the documentary, "Food Inc.," I realized that I'd been serving up a wide variety of corn: in the form of meat, boxed noodles, and many other types of food products. In "Food Inc.," Robert Kenner reveals the ugly side of food. Kenner uses Michael Pollan, author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma," and Eric Schlosser, author of "Fast Food Nation," to narrate this informative film about the oft-hidden realities of the American food industry. The production of food has changed more in the last fifty years than in the 1,000 years prior. This is largely due to companies such as McDonald's having a say in how they want meat produced. Because McDonald's is the largest purchaser of ground meat, they set the standards for meat production. Therefore, even if you do not eat at McDonald's, chances are good you are eating McDonald's quality meat (Food Inc.). The corruption does not stop with McDonald's. The film shows how a handful of corporations such as Cargill, Monsanto, Tyson, and Smithfield control everything - from seed to store - in the food production chain. This, in turn, has led to unhealthy practices being the standard operating procedure. These large corporations, in order to promote their own agendas, have affected the way average citizens are eating by making high calorie, low nutrition foods cheaper to buy and produce than healthy alternatives. This is accomplished, in part, by utilizing both illegal immigrants and the very poor, which are willing to work in deplorable conditions for very little money. The film also points out how large factory farms are feeding livestock corn, an unnatural dietary source, to encourage rapid growth. This practice, in cattle, is linked with the growth of E. coli and has made thousands sick and proven fatal to many others. The institutions in place to protect the public, such as the FDA and the USDA, have been stripped of any real power to make a change, by legislatures with a vested interest in the food industry (Food Inc.). Food Inc. uses rhetorical appeals to convey their message to the audience. One of the strongest uses of pathos comes at the beginning of the film when they show the life of a chicken destined for the table. The film shows how a chick is hatched on the assembly line and treated like a product, not a living thing. As a consumer of chicken, being shown this harsh reality of how a chick- a baby- is treated, strikes an emotional cord. After hatching, the chicken is kept in almost constant darkness to keep them sedated so they continue to gain weight. Looking in on the horrific conditions in which these animals are kept causes the viewer to become emotionally invested. The emotional investment keeps the viewer watching and believing what they see. The strongest use of ethos in this documentary would be the use of borrowed credibility. Interviewi