MY SECOND DRAFT - POV, FOOD INC. ERIC SCHLOSSER

JANA TELLEZ

ENG 101

TITLE: SECOND DRAFT POV FOOD INC ERIC SCHLOSSER

The relationship between food corporations and corporate food workers is poor and displeasing. Eric schlosser witnessed firsthand the conditions our factory workers go through to be abused and underpaid. The work environment these men and woman have to endure for less than minimum wage is sad and it shows us firsthand how vulnerable these people are. If you think of it these are big food corporations they make millions every day and these poor workers go through hell to make nothing. If you think of it these big corporations are taking advantage of these people who they know are illegal and they need them. But what would these big food corporations be without these people?

The majority of the workers are vulnerable immigrants who don’t have a voice to speak of what goes on. Schlosser explains that the workers are underpaid and are physically, mentally abused on a daily basis.  Strawberries are very popular but what many do not know is that a lot of time and effort goes into getting it to the supermarkets. Each strawberry have to be handpicked one by one you have to be delicate and you have to have a lot of patience. Strawberries are grown on farms and you need hundreds of workers to be out on the farms every day rain or shine. Eric schlosser said that he seen that the hard labor is exhausting and it’s even worse when you know at the end of the day you make a little money.

Woman are sexually abused, harassed, touched these woman go through it every day.  Men talked down to its sad because they are human just like anyone else it should not be allowed. . In 1991 a woman finally spoke up and was given 2.4 million dollars by the federal jury she explained that men were allowed to rub themselves and scream absentees at her  while the supervisor’s watched and laughed.(FAST FOOD NATION 175-176 by: Eric Schlosser) Schlosser states that the supervisors tend to be in late twenties early thirties and each one is like a dictator on their high horse. The power they think they have over the people is pathetic.  in some cases woman at times have a consensual relationship with their supervisor for marriage a green card and freedom even to transfer to a new plant.

What these men and woman go through on a daily basis no one should have to go through. Eric Schlosser summed it up the way these vulnerable people live is rough. We worry about what we’re going to eat on a daily basis but what we don’t think about is how our food got to you, every time you eat a strawberry think about the life of the person who picked that strawberry underpaid rough abused it’s you pay these big corporations for the food but majority of that goes straight to the corporation not the man or woman behind the strawberry.