Food, Inc.
|
List Price: Our Price: $7.98 You Save: $12.00 (60%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $5.25 (click here) Category: DVD See more DVD releases |
|---|
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
Movie Reviews of Food, Inc.
Movie Review: It's about time this info went mainstream!
Summary: 5 Stars
So many people having been waiting for truthful information to be given to the population, at large. Another wonderful documentary is simply titled, "Eat" by Mike Anderson. Another step toward revealing truths: to enter into the truth about our pharmaceutical houses and our medical professions that are nothing, if not big business today. I am an old R.N. I entered my profession, as a young nurse, when hospitals and physicians were charitable...when the practice of medicine was truly about the patient's care. And, I was there to witness big business coming in and changing the focus of practice in the medical professions. They systematically dehumanized the practice of medicine, stopped long term studies of drugs and began pushing dangerous drugs through to increase their profit margin. They profit largely off of cancer patients. Chemo-Therapy does not work and it can and does kill! But, the physicians make an 80% profit on all prescribed and administered chemo. The general public doesn't know this. The phrase "cost-effective" was coined and the main focus became about the money. Now, that we are embarking on a return to food ethics, let's do a different kind of lobbying with our political representatives to stop the promotion of unhealty foods, the marketing and prescribing of dangerous drugs, (in fact, we need our physicians to also become pharmacists....what a doctor knows about a new drug is what a pharmaceutical salesperson (a legal pusher) tells him. Most people do not know this. Isn't that frightening?) We need to keep it simple in our own lives. There is a lifestyle where what you eat can prevent you from ever needing a physician or his prescription pad (unless you were in an accident). Look into Dr. John McDougall, either his website or his books sold right here at Amazon....or Drs. Joel Fuhrman, Caldwell Esselstyn, John Robbins, Dean Ornish, Neal Barnard, and T. Colin Campbell and his ground-breaking research and book, "The China Study". They all have informative and vastly helpful websites and they all have books. This is just for starters....the truth has been recovered, researched and retested and the population of those in "the know" is now huge. Big Business is killing us and they do not care. They care about profits and that is all. Period. And, Big Business, oftimes, is envisioned as more material...like Steel Mills or the Car Industry, or the world of finance..but do not be fooled...Drugs are an astronomical business, Hospitals are Big Business, Doctors and medical equipment are Big Business and Food is Such a Big Business that CHEMICAL COMPANIES, that's right CHEMICAL COMPANIES have patented and own the seeds. Doesn't it seem a bit strange to you that a chemical company has anything to do with food? They have taken corn and actually sterilized and genetically modified the seed, so that independent farmers cannot save their own seed anymore to use to plant next years corn. No, no...Monsanto and Dow have made it so the poor farmers have to buy seed from them every year. The seed that is grown every year is now sterile and genetically modified and cannot produce new plants when put in the ground. And, that is another thing...in other countries when food is genetically modified it has to be labeled as such, so the consumer can make educated choices. If they don't want food that has been genetically modified they can read the label and know if it has been or not. But, in the big business unethical world of the USA, there aren't any laws to inform or protect us. We are being fooled, on purpose. We are constantly manipulated. We need to exercise our gifts of discernment and proceed with caution.Movie Review: If you eat a lot of processed food, you must watch this
Summary: 5 Stars
I heard about the documentary Food, Inc when it was first released. I finally got around to watching it. It is a must see documentary about our industrial food production. I highly recommend it to everybody, especially if you eat meat.
The story of how industrial food production makes people sick, pollutes the environment, exploits workers, and enriches a few is a complex subject. I have read several books on this topic already. But still I learned new things from this documentary.
I read Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser years ago so I am keenly aware of his work. Eric Scholosser is a co-producer of this film. Some topics covered by this documentary include:
* The mechanized chicken factories and its' effects.
* The role of corn in the entire production chain. Corn subsidies as one of the root causes of this entire problem.
* Obesity amongst the poor.
* Meatpacking industry and the exploitation of workers and its role in illegal immigration. IBP (now Tyson Fresh Meats) actually run newspaper ads in Mexico looking for workers.
* Monsanto and its patented genetically modified (GM) seeds.
The part on Monsanto and its legal tactics thoroughly disgusted me. We see Monsanto suing Moe Parr, a seed cleaner. He has a seed cleaning machine and helps farmers clean seeds so that the seeds can be replanted. Monsanto actively tries to drive him out of business. Why? Because farmers who use Monsanto's generically modified seeds are not allowed to save seeds. They are contractually obligated to buy the GM seeds each year. If you save seeds and grow a new crop from the seeds, you are in violation of their patent. In addition to investigating and suing farmers, Monsanto also sues the seed cleaner. Keep in mind that Moe Parr is not a farmer. He operates a seed cleaning service.
The film presents the problems and it also shows us the glimmers of hope. We learn about
* Joel Salatin from Polyface Farms. Joel shows you how in his farm the cows roam free and eat grass, not corn. The cows move around so that their manure fertilizers the soil.
* The story of Stonyfield Farm and its success in the organic yogurt market. We learn about how Walmart became part of the organic movement and its decision not to carry milk produced with synthetic growth hormones.
* The story of a soybean farmers who refuses to buy Monsanto's GM seeds.
The film ties together these complex subjects in an easy to understand way. I hope more people watch this film and become more aware of how your purchase decision have real consequences.
I recommend these other films and books if you want to learn more:
* Super Size Me A popular and funny documentary that you may have hear. Morgan Spurlock eats McDonald's for 30 days straight.
* The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World and Diet for a New America. Two books by John Robbins.
* The Good Life by Scott and Helen Nearing. They are one of the earliest pioneers of the organic farm movement.
Movie Review: Congress should be required to watch FOOD, INC and protect us
Summary: 5 Stars
Elected US lawmakers (Senators+Representatives in Congress) and elected state+local lawmakers permit those chemicals added to what is called "food" but are harmful to your brain, your endocrine and reproductive systems, and they overwork your blood, liver, kidneys, bladder, and your omentum where the harmful belly fat factory resides that is active or inactive based on what you eat and drink. Damaged systems are not able to keep you healthy. Most of our "flavors", "sweeteners" and "colors" are from chemical companies that pay big bucks for favors from Republicans and Democrats that they help get elected. Many of our chemical "ingredients" are banned in the European Union countries and many others. This is a clue as to why so many countries do not have our high ratio of children and adult problems with weight, allergies, learning, behaviors, criminal activity and other brain/body issues. Please sign the petition below and share it over and over. I don't know if links transfer properly so copy/paste and change the "dot".
[...]
[...]
When such services receive any government money (federal, state, local), our tax dollars pay for all or part of the cost of meals for students, hospital patients, soup kitchens, child & adult day care, assisted living, and such. Therefore, FOOD,INC and Jaime Oliver's Food Revolution should be required viewing for: everyone in the food source to consumer chain; and every parent and student grade 4 to post-graduate and in skills training; plus those in government jobs paid directly with public monies (our taxes); and those paid indirectly by a private employer receiving public monies (especially the various education, health and human services). Those that we depend on must have the knowledge to make informed decisions that do not harm us, especially for our children, vulnerable adults and the uninformed. Food Stamps and meal plans must be moved from Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Department of Health and Human Services. In 400 BC, Hippocrates, the father of medicine said, "Let food be thy medicine and let medicine be thy food".
We need to be a healthy nation again in our persons and our politics. We must end the Republican/Democrat/ Corporate Monopoly. Never vote to reelect or retain anyone. (It's ok if any President/CEO is great). Reelection to Congress violates our US Constitution. Read it. I bet your State Constitution doesn't have any reelection provisions either. ..."for a term of ___ years" and "their successors" means they may not succeed/follow themselves and are never to hold that position again. Only the President may do it twice in their life. Vice-President may not. "Running Mate/VP Candidate" is also unconstitutional. I bet your state primary elections also allow only votes for Republicans and Democrats. Let's restore our Founder's coalition government. So in November general elections vote only for persons that won't accept money from and were never in the Republican/Democrat/Corporate Monopoly. Send the message: we want only true civil servants who work to protect and benefit us then return to private life. Never complain if you vote to reelect/retain again. That revolving door goes to-from-to-from huge corporate paychecks. Repeat often, "If change is to be, it starts with me." Thank you for reading this.
Movie Review: Watch this video, then buy local & contact your congressmen!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was aware that our food industry is leading us down the path to disaster, but I didn't know how bad it was. I've read things in books, but when you see it on the camera it makes it so much more real.
This movie touches on many problems in our food industry. For example, genetically modified foods, how we may end up eating cloned animal meat if we don't speak up to congress and the FDA, how there are only a few companies controlling most of the food industry and how that power and money are influencing our government and railroading farmers, and of course, how inhumane these animals, and the workers who process them, are treated.
The most eye-opening things for me were: 1)if you feed cows grass for 5 days, they'll clean themselves of 80% of ecoli bacteria, but instead of doing that, industries "cleanse" our meat with AMMONIA, 2)policy makers and judges are not in bed with these corporations, they come straight from these companies to these very important political positions, 3)the USDA no longer has the power to shut down factories who repeatedly have tainted facilities, 4) corporations can now patent life and therefore can sue others for using/reusing their "seeds," and will take farmers who don't use their seeds to court accusing them of this crime just to send a message, and/or to put this farmer out of business and in process these lawyer/companies are able to obtain EVERY BANK TRANSACTION that farmer has made in the past 10 years (I imagine the companies then go after the people with whom the poor farmer/seed cleaner has been in business).
What I found disappointing was the lack of information in this video, but it is a movie, not a mini-series. As I said, "it touches" on these different issues, but there's much more to know - I guess the watcher should be smart enough to do more research and read some books. I would've like have seen in this video, "why is corn so harmful to digest by animals AND humans? how can the stress these animals are in, especially before the slaughter, affect us? what happens to these small organic companies who get bought out by corporations but keep their "organic" identity? how exactly does a food become "genetically modified" and what may be the consequences to our health? how close are we (or are we already there) to having our food come from cloned animals? what other ways is the farmer, who's grass-feeding his beef, helping the environment/ecosystem? are other countries running their food industry in the same way as us or does the US already control them too? how did Oprah win the fight against these monster food lawyers?
If nothing else, after seeing this video, I want to do MORE than just buy local and/or organic, I want to speak up and speak out against these monopolies and the politicians who support them - why aren't they considered monopolies!?! I like cheap stuff, predictability, and consistency just as much as the next person, but people have to use their head and ask, "at what cost?" In this case, the cost is great - it's not just the environment, the animals, or our kids future, it's OUR LIVES at stake too - and that should appeal to even the most selfish individual.
Movie Review: Best movie I've ever seen for educational purposes
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a PROCESSED-FOODS CONVERT, thanks to this amazing documentary, and subsequently others similar to it in nature.
Before, I mindlessly went about my daily life, buying processed foods and easy take-out for too many years, being a busy working mom with two kids in two activities at a time. Hey, they wouldn't put anything to compromise our health in those boxes. Yeah....right....
Since about April of this year, I've been researching & learning about natural foods, enzymes and how incredibly valuable they are for us all, and most shockingly, what's happening to our food supply right under our very noses as we go about our busy lives, assuming everything is just fine.
There is so much MSG & HFCS (High fructose corn syrup) in the majority of processed foods, which so many of us are eating AND feeding our children, not to mention the genetic modification of the very seeds we need to sustain life, which this film documents and explains very, very well.
Companies are patenting and modifying the very DNA of the plants we eat and feed our livestock & poultry. Let that sink in for a moment. One of those also makes a very potent & popular weed killer. Hmmmm....food supply owners AND poison factory? The same company? Hmmmmmm...
If you educate yourself by buying growth-hormone free, antibiotic free, non-genetically modified 100% ORGANIC vegetable, dairy and meat products, you VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLARS & the producers will get the message. The first documentary I watched on the subject was Food, Inc., and is a real eye-opener. This led to the viewing and further investigation of others. The more I uncovered, the more upset I became, but then I empowered myself again, as I am in charge of what I put into my body!
I also got the KitchenAid Professional 5 Plus 5-Quart Stand Mixer, in Black, at the same time, to make this new lifestyle choice less a chore & more doable. It's the best kitchen appliance I've ever owned, and makes cooking from scratch easy, peasy! Clean up is also a snap. This all came together for me because of this movie, and Michael Pollan's "Food Rules".
The Fannie Farmer cookbook, recommended to me 15 years ago by my sister-in-law as a must-have, truly is a must-have! You will not be sorry, and even the pickiest of eaters will not be able to get enough.
***IMPORTANT NOTE FOR THOSE WANTING TO LOSE WEIGHT:
It has been my experience that eating REAL food without added fillers, preservatives & other chemical alteration FILLS YOU UP much faster than the processed stuff. MUCH! You'll have a lot of food left over when you cook and eat this way - the way we were meant to, so stock up on some freezer containers or a vacuum sealer. I got both.
Doctors & alternative health practitioners stress that we should eat natural sugars, not artificial sweeteners. Eat actual, natural foods from this Earth, without all the added nonsense, and you'll naturally eat less. Plus, your body knows what to do with real sugar & how to process & eliminate it.