In a Word: Disturbing.

Wow, that film was intense. I can say with some degree of certainty that I would not have watched that documentary if it hadn't have been a requirement for class. There is definitely a reason I became a vegetarian a few years ago, and watching Food, Inc. almost made me regret that I am one no longer. I think the most disturbing imagery (though it's hard to pick just one thing) was the scene in the chicken houses. After the trucks came and took all of the (currently) living chickens away, it was so horrendous to see how many dead chickens the farmer had to pick up afterwards. It was more than just meat, it was poor living creatures who were never given the chance to live a decent life. Unlike some, I do think the meat industry is fairly essential to the U.S. population, but I think the standards have fallen so far below acceptable that I don't even have a word for it. There is nothing humane about the lives that these animals lead, they are suffering from birth to death.
Besides the terrible treatment of our livestock and poultry, there was something else that stuck out to me, as I'm sure it did to other people: corn. I, for one, am not a fan of corn. I don't know what it is, but I don't like popcorn, or corn on the cob, or corn in general. So it's no surprise that I was horrified to discover just how much corn I consume on a daily basis. I don't like to think about it, it's waaaaay too much disgusting corn going into my body. Prior to watching the film, I hadn't realized that cheap food equalled highly processed corn. I don't want to sit down to a meal and picture corn as every item on my plate, yuck! I know this is not the message that the film intended, but the whole thing left me feeling so utterly hopeless about changing the way I eat. Sure, it made me want to change every bit of my diet, but seeing just how very tightly controlled our food really is made me feel like there's nothing I can do to stop it. When I already have to be concerned with how many calories I'm consuming, how much fat there is, how many servings of fruit and vegetables I'm getting, so on and so forth, there comes a point where I simply can't monitor everything about my food. I just want to eat something tasty; it's not going to taste as good if I have to painstakingly go through every single item on the ingredients list to discover what I'm really eating.

Dotinga, Randy. High Fructose Corn Syrup Linked to Liver Scarring. 2010. Medline Plus. U.S. National Library of Medicine. Web. 10 May. 2010.