Food, Inc

Arrowwind09 · ï¿½ #1 ï¿½ 07-06-2009, 07:04 AM

Coming to a theater near you.

https://www.siff.net/festival/film/de...=28794&FID=123

EarlyBird · ï¿½ #2 ï¿½ 07-07-2009, 04:00 AM

My Friend in AZ just sent me this same video/info yesterday. She also sent me info
saying that Tamiflu has failed to effect a Swine flu mutated virus there.

Arrowwind09 · ï¿½ #3 ï¿½ 07-07-2009, 08:00 AM

I heard a report on NPR that farmers are not taking kindly to this movie. They say it has been really hard for them to stay competitive and keep their farms and families financially sustainable....and these were some of the smaller farmers, not the huge guys....and I do suppose some of them do have valid issues, but none that could not be worked out if our society really wanted to.

Arrowwind09 · ï¿½ #4 ï¿½ 07-15-2009, 04:46 PM

Here's another film about the film from PBS.

Have you had your corn today?

https://www.pbs.org/video/video/11432...ram/1120797048

u&iraok · ï¿½ #5 ï¿½ 07-17-2009, 06:06 AM

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Corn is the vegetable-as-villain in "Food, Inc." which builds on the work of nutritionists, journalists and activists Eric Schlosser ("Fast Food Nation") and Michael Pollan ("The Omnivore's Dilemma") to show how multinationals have taken over the production of food. As the movie tells us, corn -- which today assumes dozens of ubiquitous identities, notably high-fructose corn syrup -- is kept at unrealistically low prices by the government, is fed to animals that haven't evolved to eat it (such as the cow), causes those animals to develop maladies that must be treated with antibiotics (which are passed on to consumers), and has led to the mutation of new strains of the E.coli virus, which sickens tens of thousands each year.

The whole mess is exacerbated by opportunistic politics -- tools of Big Agriculture running the very regulatory agencies that are supposed to protect us -- and consumers who have become accustomed to eating whatever they want whenever they want, in quantities they don't need.

Fast food is presented as having turned meat production into a sadistic exercise in animal torture, something that's been seen in documentaries before, and it isn't pretty. But "Food, Inc." delves deeply into the case of Monsanto, which has monopolized the growing of corn by patenting the biology inside it -- and has been allowed to litigate against insurgent farmers through court decisions rendered by the likes of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, a onetime Monsanto lawyer. The whole system, "Food, Inc." tells us, is fixed.

Everytime I go to the store I see crowds of people at the corn, I think it must be the most consumed 'vegetable' (it's really a grain). I have yet to see organic corn so I avoid corn altogether.

Is organic corn hard to find?

kind2creatures · ï¿½ #6 ï¿½ 05-18-2010, 08:57 AM

Just saw the old Food Inc. documentary last night, rented it from Netflix...Monsanto

I feel bad for the small farmers, nice to see the animals grazing on grass, too bad a simple thing like planting unadulterated seed is such a problem in America thanks to greedy corporations.

Arrowwind09 · ï¿½ #7 ï¿½ 05-18-2010, 09:04 AM

As the antithesis to this film rent from netflix "The Dirt on Farmer John"

One of the better movies I've seen in quite a while... its a documentary about a midwest farmer and how he saved his small farm from annihilation.