Food, Inc.
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Movie Review: Too much 5 Stars
This is one real of an eye opener! It is one great shame to think the vast majority of ourselves don't want to question to where our food has resided. There is too much out there to let it all slip away like dust in the wind.You go walk in a supper market and you think theirs alots of variety, but there's isn't. One comporation or maybe two or three maybe, hold, contol, over all the food. Theres too much food in there, u ask. That's just isn't right. We garner a lots of pomatos in the poultry isle, but are they tomats? No I tell, no! They are une nice idea of a tomatu, but they sure ain't a tomat! No seasons in grocery stores either, have you ever payed notice? Such makes us question our existence on this planet - plenty of people but they are proper people or a nice idea of a people? Publix garantees majestical isles as far as my eyes can see - BUT - it is all a vale to hide real shame. Do not you ever wonder where the source is what you food resides the source?
chickens, antibiotocs, corn, e.coli (aka 157H7), maltodextrin, the BUSH ADMINISTRATION...Wow! We come from 1950 when it took a year to harvest a chicken, but now Mike Tyson made it so that you can get a 50 pound chicken in less than a week. With big wite breasts (I likem but 'taint right). Is not that just a little unsettled? Theese chickens are starving w/ diseases and since they are so big they can not even hold there own wait to strole down to the pub for a bight. And then Kevin ate 3 ham bugars (intresting that it is called a HAM burgar, no?) that contained infected corn from infected cows and he was dead in 12 days! But that 12 days did not go without its unbenefits, he had a condition where he could only afford water from a small sponge for he begged for water and he ate upon that very sponge.
Our govt has been making handshakes with this corporations now. The USDNA & FDA turn one other blind eye to this scam of hurting us. We waste land for our greed. Corn. Animals = money = no humanity. Did you realize that workers were once african american, but are now undocumented workers? These crooked swines (swine flu? NO COINCIDENCE) loves this worker because he/she can be replaced with much of ease. They brought the factory to the back of a mcdonalds kitchen. And it ain't right.
Every American should do it there duty to watch this film. You should no where the food that you thrust into your gums is residing. Please boycott Food Inc. This is a twobit organisation. It poisons our earth. I glad I live in Canada.
Movie Review: Finally...had to watch because of a friend
Summary: 5 Stars
When I saw, "from the makers of the Inconvenient Truth", on the case, I thought, "I'll never watch that". Global warming (the man-made kind) is complete BS in my mind, and unless we resume testing atmospheric testing of h-bombs, I am very unlikely to change.
I say that only to illustrate the apparent inconsistency in giving this documentary 5 stars.
Film-wise, the film is very well done. The real-life characters were well chosen and seemed to be good down-to-earth Midwestern folks. That lent a lot of credibility IMO. Politically (a reason I do not watch similarly themed documentaries) I thought it more balanced than most. True, Bush 43's mug was mentioned as well as some in his administration, but Clinton was mentioned too.
It wasn't all-corporations-are-evil, all-the-time either. I liked the balance of one farmer who supposedly does it "the right way". Here, we could see the slaughtering of chickens, and to some this may appear as bad as the mass-production style of killing, but leaving the distinction up to the viewer was a good choice. I also liked the organic company who does business with Walmart. The CEO's sense of win-win, that is, making a profit while still adhering to the mission of no pesticides, fertilizer, etc., was a good choice too for the film.
The food system is so out-of-sight and out-of-mind in our lives that only the staunch nutritionists I know realize any of the things mentioned in the film. Consequently, I believe most of it is definitely true. One can certainly argue that it is impossible to feed 6 billion people without assembly-line techniques being employed. That is process-oriented change stuff though. When they start altering natural evolution at my expense, that is where I walk over to the "enough already" side.
The one thing this documentary does for me is confirm a belief I already hold: The United States government is nothing but a huge multi-trillion dollar whorehouse. Corporations pay the pimps (Lobbyists) who buy the whores (Congressmen, Senators, and the White House) who in turn forces their slaves (The American People) to bend over and take it.
This film achieved its objective I think as I will not be able to look at another food product again without reading the label and *this time*, researching what those unpronounceable ingredients are and how they affect my body. I see much more kale in my future now.
Movie Review: Loved the eccentric independent farmer!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best social responsibility themed documentaries I have ever watched. I feel that this documentary covers all the bases on animal fair-treatment, the food safety impacts of industrial farming, and sustainable food production practices.
Food Inc goes in depth on the production operations of a sustainable Virginia chicken, beef, and pork farmer. This farmer is probably at least a little eccentric, but everything he says about pigs exercising their "pigness" and cows being cows makes total sense. He invited the cameras in to see how he raises, feeds, and even slaughters the animals. The film treats very fairly the contrast between this approach and the approach that industrial-scale meat packer Perdue requires its farmers to follow.
The film provides some focus to food safety, particularly as it relates to the role industrial processes play in promoting toxic e. coli proliferation. Alas, the film fails to make as clear a case for how e. coli has become such a problem as it has for the issues related to fair treatment of animals.
I appreciated the film's exploration of public food subsidies and how they impact food choices and public health. We follow a low-income Los Angeles-area family that is forced to buy cheap fast food instead of broccoli due to price and time. To summarize, a hamburger would be more expensive, but corn, soybean, and wheat overproduction paid for by the US farm-subsidy bills feeds cows and keeps beef cheaper than it should be.
There were pretty naive complaints of Monsanto's practice of prohibiting farmers from using the seeds that are naturally produced season after season on-farm by the plants it has engineered and patented. Monsanto prosecutes farmers doing this because this cuts into Monsanto's sales -- there's no reason to buy Monsanto's product if you can, in essence, re-use their product season after season. Unfortunately, the arguments were only skin deep and were akin to those that throw up their hands at the fact that pharmaceuticals cost so damn much money. Yeah, the seeds only cost a a tenth of a cent to produce, but the first seed cost $100 million, so what is Monsanto to do? Food Inc should have probed this issue deeper.
I would encourage anyone watching the DVD-version to catch the extras. The deleted scenes could have easily been rolled into the feature but for length.
Movie Review: Viewed Tonight
Summary: 5 Stars
This documentary was fantastic. Are there better ones out there on this subject? Sure. "The Future of Food" was particularly good, but "Food, Inc." is a film a larger audience can relate to. That's my opinion anyway. I'm seriously thinking of sending copies of this film as a holiday gift to friends. I understand the blight of the chicken house industry that was once vibrant in parts of the South and have heard personal stories of people going in serious debt as a result. Up here living in the Midwest, corn and corn-fed beef (and ethanol) are all the rage. News of raids and deportation of immigrant workers in Postville, Iowa, doesn't arouse as much public concern as one might hope. Though people in this state do celebrate farmers' markets and have fabulous locally-grown produce. Interesting to behold the organic movement catching on right in America's Heartland where much of the corn is grown. I hope it catches on more in the future and we can break our dependence on the failing food system we have now.
I learned of Polyface Farm years back and wish we had access to their products out this way, but understand that violates their principle of keeping it local. The Polyface Inc. website lists restaurants where their products are used and "metropolitan buying clubs" for interested consumers in Virginia and Maryland. That's really nice how they have their sustainable farming business running, and I'd love for us to protect the few smaller family farms we have left out this way. Organic farming is such a good idea.
Monsanto is the closest thing to pure evil I've yet to confront. Wow. The more I learn about them, the more shocked I am that people haven't sounded alarms sooner. Aside from creating Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, they now provide a variant on RoundUp Ultra for our U.S. drug policy aerial fumigation campaign in Colombia, which is causing a humanitarian crisis in case anyone didn't know. Monsanto is also behind the global "boom" in golf courses, which rely on their lawncare products. Read up on biological patents and Monsanto and see how many patents they have accumulated. This is a company we seriously need to avoid from here on out, even if that means accepting a few weeds from time to time, mmmmk? Scary bad, Monsanto is.
Great film that I'd recommend to my friends. :)
Movie Review: Wow. If You Want to Know, This is a Good Start....
Summary: 5 Stars
I tend to avoid constant streams of news because the flow of bad and dark overwhelms me and makes me feel hopeless. I can't watch the endless commentary on why people do some of the hideous things that they do, or how our world is becoming more and more hostile. So the fact that I generally love documentaries surprises e.
Food Inc was one I put off for a very long time. I'm not naive - and maybe that's why I did put it off - because I know just enough. But seeing is different than knowing.
Super Size Me and King Corn of two of my favorite documentaries. Food Inc both picks up where they left off and becomes the missing piece of the puzzle.I expected to be challenged and horrified by Food Inc, but I didn't expect to be as moved as I was.
Some of the statistics and facts presented are staggering. Animals housed and fed to become the end product that are so heavy that their legs can't hold them, diseased animals tossed into the meat mix, A semi-solution that is not taken wherein the cattle being fed a different diet for days could kill 80% of the e coli bacteria. Farmers carrying debt of a half million but making a mere 18K a year. Larger corporations refusing to make statements or appear on camera. Those are almost enough to paint a compelling picture of serious issues.
But there's more....the family who eats dollar hamburgers from a fast food outlet based on budget restrictions of both time and money. This same family is shown in the grocery store lamenting the $1.29 per pound price tag on broccoli and when a daughter looks longingly at pears, they are weighed and rejected because $.99 price tag per pound would only buy them two or three pears. However, pop was cheap. The father was diabetic. The mother explained that $260.00 a month went to his two diabetic medications. They had to make a decision between food that might make them all healthier and medicine to keep him healthy.
Then there was the political activist who became one when she lost her small child to e coli from tainted burger.
I could go on but I won't.
If you are concerned about what goes into your mouth, and the mouths of those you care about, you need to look further into America's food supply and Food Inc could be a good starting point.