FOOD INC.

: Exposing the Food Industry

Statistics:

The drug Zilmax, put in animal feed adds 24 to 33 pounds on a cow in just 20 days Gee
2014
E-coli contamination from meat accounts for 20,000 infections and 200 deaths each year
in the U.S. due to what animals are fed Segelken 1998
McDonalds is the largest purchaser of beef, chicken, pork, fish, potatoes and apples
Corporate Accountability International
75% of what is found in your grocery store comes from corn or corn by-product
Kalinoski 2012
97% of the 10,000,000 animals tortured each year are farm animals Last Chance for
Animals 2014

Common Chicken Houses

Corn based feed

Examples:

2-year-old Kevin Kowalcyk died from E-coli contamination from a fast food hamburger
in 2001 Tragedy Spurs Advocacy
The use of the supplement Zilmax in cattle feed causing cows at Tyson locations to
become non-ambulatory or lame and Tyson suspended purchases of cows given Zilmax
Gee 2014
McDonalds yearly recorded revenue was counted at 27.45 billion, approximately 75.21
million per day Evans 2012

America produces 300 million tons of corn each year. Corn is easy to break down and put
into almost anything such as all of the processed foods, orange juice, chips and so much
more Bauer 2013

Sheep, goats, pigs, and other animals being kicked, shocked, beaten, dragged by their
ears and tails, and deprived of food and water (Livestock Markets - Mississippi,2014)
- Undercover video

References

Segelken, H. Roger. (1998). Simple change in cattle diets could cut E-coli infection.
Cornell Cronicle. Retrieved from http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/1998/09/simplechange-cattle-diets-could-cut-e-coli-infection
Gee, Kelsey. (2013). The Drugs in our Beef: Bigger Cows More Worries. The Wall
Street Journal. Retrieved from http://blogs.wsj.com/corporateintelligence/2013/08/08/the-drugs-in-our-beef-bigger-cows-more-worries/
McDonalds Influence on the Food System. Corporate Accountability International.
Retrieved April 29 2015 from https://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/our-food-system
Kalinoski, Stacia. (2012). Corn Found in 75% of Your Grocery Store. WZZM 13, ABC.
Retrieved from http://www.wzzm13.com/news/article/218459/14/Corn-found-in-75percent-of-your-grocery-store
Last Chance for Animals. (2014). Retrieved from http://www.lcanimal.org/
Dwald, Matt. Tragedy Spurs Advocacy. UC Magazine. Retrieved from
http://magazine.uc.edu/issues/0912/kowalcyk.html

Evans, Christopher. How much does McDonalds make in a day? Quora. Retrieved
from http://www.quora.com/How-much-does-McDonalds-make-in-a-day
Bauer, John. (2013). Corn is Everywhere. Foodery Boston. Retrieved from
https://fooderyboston.com/corn-is-everywhere/
Mercy for Animals. (2014). Undercover investigations: Exposing animal abuse.
Retrieved from http://www.mercyforanimals.org/investigations.aspx