Food Inc.
If you haven’t seen the documentary Food Inc. – you have to. Like Michael Pollan’s books, this movie will change the way you see food and the world.
If we as consumers and citizens don’t do something quickly to fight back against the food industrial complex, by voting with our dollars, by informing and educating others, and by advocating to the government for more transparency, freedom, and a level playing field for natural foods producers, then the epidemics of diabetes, obesity, environmental degradation, food contamination and inhumane treatment will threaten us further.
Some highlights:
- Chicken and meat processing is so inhumane, and scary, it makes you feel you can’t avoid but to become a vegetarian – unless you live near Joe Salatin
- The Food Industrial Complex is abusive, greedy, and scary;
- corn engineering has created high fructose corn syrup, and the corn lobby has resulted in subsidies for obesity-inducing products;
- Price distortion from government subsidies causes poor people to buy cheap unhealthy foods made up of corn-derived empty calories – contributing to diabetes and obesity;
- Otherwise herbivore cows that naturally should feed from grass are now primarily fed corn, causing e-coli contaminations and diseases;
- Chicken die from the fast weight they put on; and they are treated as tools in an industrial machine – no lives;
- Monstanto is evil. They hold a ruthless monopoly over soybeans. They intimidate and sue farmers to use their genetically-modified seeds. Federal and state government agencies have been bought off and serve the interests of the food industrial complex.
Serious work ahead.
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