Food, Inc.
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Movie Review: A Gentle Nightmare....
Summary: 5 Stars
The Apocalypse is coming in the form of a Quarter Pounder. As powerful and alarming as "Food, Inc." is, it's still probably too tame and restrained to convey just how horrendous our food system is. This really needs to be a 10 hour series that goes into extreme depth and detail, and is shown in every school and to every congressperson. I have tried to stop eating meat ever since I traveled through Texas cattle country 20 years ago. It's a scene as bad as any from Nazi Germany, the cattle pens resemble bleak concentration camps. And the stench is so extremely foul, it hits you many miles down the road, and then it stays with you for days, and weeks. A nightmare. I say I've tried to stop eating meat, but I am not perfect and have my weak moments. I eat much less meat than most people, and that's good, but I can do better. The big problem is that it's not just meat that's causing so much damage to our society. It's corn syrup and soy products, which are in nearly everything we consume. Even Batteries! So it's more than a little frustrating and confusing. There are a few good answers and positive ideas presented here, but we need more and we need 'em Fast. Technically, the film is superbly made, covers a very wide spectrum of the condition, and manages to not leave me feeling too hopeless and depressed. I do that fine all by myself. So, even though I don't think it goes nearly far enough to make us, all of us, realize that our Doom and Demise is accelerated by our irresponsible and inhuman food choices, I highly recommend "Food, Inc."Movie Review: An important movie that everyone should see
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw Food, Inc. several days ago and many of the images still haunt me. The essence of this movie is how food production in America has gone from being locally produced to being controlled by multi-national corporations. The upside of this is that food is cheaper and more plentiful. This movie examines the downside, which is horrifying.
All livestock (including fish) are now fed some sort of corn meal, regardless of whether this is what the would eat under ordinary circumstances. For example, cows eat grass. If they eat something else, it causes extra bacteria, including e-coli to grow in its stomach. To treat this they are given antibiotics. Milking cows are fed hormones to speed up milk production. Chickens are fed so much corn to fat them up many cannot walk and they break their legs trying. Or the legs get infected and they are given antibiotics. One chicken farmer showed a "typical" day in the coop where she would go in and scoop up a dozen dead birds and through them on a gargabe heap. Lest it sound one sided, the large corporations were invited to participate in the movie and declined.
While parts of this movie are difficult to watch, ultimately it ends on a high note that we, as the consumer, have the power to change food production processes. As one farmer pointed out, you wouldn't buy the cheapest car or the cheapest clothes, so why apply the same philosophy to the purchase and consumption of food.
Simply put, this movie will change your life.
Movie Review: Looking at our food from a whole new perspective
Summary: 5 Stars
The cover of this DVD states: "You'll never look at dinner the same way again" and it's true. This movie follows the food from their sources to our supermarket. The sordid method of mass production and the repulsive ways used to bring the food to our table as cheap as possible is beyond abomination. Yes, I knew that mass production requires putting the livestock in large bins. What I didn't know was that overcrowding was to such an extent that animals were living on top of one another. Compassion and the humane treatment should be exercised whenever you are dealing with any livestock.
As our food industry's corporations become more powerful, we come face-to-face with the little guys (small farmers and organic growers) who try to offer the public alternative choices...and how they were met with lawsuits and threats from these corporations. There's nothing I need THAT BAD where I have to give my business to any company that uses threats!
So now that I have this knowledge, what would I be doing differently? I won't be buying meat packages in bulk from my supermarket, that's for sure. I will be buying organic meat products from now on. Yes, they are more expensive but I'll be buying in smaller amounts. When I prepare meals for my family, it'll be quality over quantity. And I think that's a very good thing! This DVD is recommended for those people who value their body and the health of their family. Not recommended for children, as some images are very disturbing.
Movie Review: A eye opener
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a must watch for everyone in America who eats meat. It's really a disgust to see the other side of our food supply controlled by I'm sure a few LARGE businesses. My wife and I now buy very little meat from Wal-Mart and the grocery Store. We bought a deep freezer and got on the internet and to out surprise there was several people in a thirty mile radius of us in the same movement we wanted to head and we found local beef, pork and chickens we now purchase. We have shopped around some and already found prices comparable to Wal-Mart prices too. We found a lady who sells eggs for a dollar a dozen all we want. We just bought three quarters of a cow at four dollars a pound of edible meat and when you average ground beef all the way up to sirloins and t-bones I'd say that was a pretty good bargain.
Use common sense and research around starting with this movie. Then use common sense and tell yourself your body can't take all these antibiotics and hormones they pump full in your food supply just to get it raised faster and bigger all for one purpose to them - to make more money. Don't take my word for it and maybe this movie won't even convince you but please don't just call it a conspiracy theory and blow it off like I've already had family members and friends do to me. Please read all you want wherever you can get information and please use logical deduction and common sense and think about your bodies and your children's bodies.
thanks, Jonathan
Movie Review: Wow
Summary: 5 Stars
When my dad asked me to order this DVD for him, I didn't know what to expect. When I ordered the DVD, I was allowed to watch it instantly online as well, so I did, and wow! What can I say? I've known for a long time that there were problems with the way food is produced in this country--the increasingly frequent outbreaks of e. coli and salmonella are indication enough of that--but this documentary revealed things that were surprising even to me. Yet, even as the documentary shows you the good, the bad, and the ugly of our food industry, they manage to do so in a way that doesn't come off as preachy or condescending. You journey through several different farms, from huge, stifling factory farms to an "old-fashioned" farm where cattle still eat grass and the chickens still see sunlight. You meet farmers that have been put impossibly deep in debt by the demands of the industry that contracted them, honest people that were prosecuted and denied their livelihood when they committed no crime, and a mother who lost her son to tainted meat and continues to fight for stronger regulation of the industry. You're shown the facts about where our food comes from, how it's made, and how it reaches us, and at the end there is a very simple message--by shopping smarter and choosing food that has been produced humanely and sustainably, we have the power to change the food industry for the better.
I highly recommend this documentary.