Food Inc., looks like an incredibly powerful documentary. I’m looking forward to watching it…
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nations food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly thats been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our governments regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.
Our nations food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Food, Inc. reveals surprising — and often shocking truths — about what we eat, how its produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
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I didn’t watch the video because I’m sure I know what I’ll see. I’ve read a couple books on where our food comes from and have done a lot of research. Even posted some stuff on my blog about what I’ve found. It’s horrific. We have so many people who don’t care about animals and those are the ones working at slaughterhouses. Have you seen HBO’s Death on a Factory Farm? If you haven’t, it shows a guy who goes undercover at a pig farm to expose what they are doing. Then the evidence he collects goes to court and I won’t say anything else because that would ruin the documentary, if you ever see it. Our government laws are not set up to persecute animal abusers. It’s a sad sad world sometimes.
I watched a documentary, about factory farming, late last year and after seeing it I became a vegetarian. Seeing first hand how my food was produced changed the way I eat. We’re eating a lot of local foods now and I feel so much better.
Thanks for the HBO documentary recommendation – I’ll have to check it out.
I’ve tried to go vegetarian so many times but after two days, I always get incredibly weak. I don’t know why because I take supplements and get protein via dairy. So I guess you could say that I’m 80% vegetarian.
Here’s the HBO documentary:
http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/deathfactoryfarm/synopsis.html