Food, Inc. - the movie

Please see the movie "Food, Inc." It places an unpalatable plate of facts in front of you that you will have a hard time stomaching the next time you wheel through a supermarket.

• It's time we learn about the way our food is grown, processed, and distributed.
• It's time we take a long hard look at the food we consume and buy for our families.
• It's time to change the way we look at the "food industry" and demand something different - for our bodies, for our environment, and for our food producers.

As Josh always tells me, "vote with your dollar. That is the best way to be heard." What great advice. :)

http://www.takepart.com/foodinc/

Taken from the TakePart website:

About the Film
How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families?

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's 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. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of e coli--the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farm's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising -- and often shocking truths -- about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.

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I couldn't have said it better myself. Another great local resource for local, sustainable food:
http://www.slowfoodmn.org/

pick your pork carefully

I get frustrated trying to explain to people why J & I try and buy organic, local, sustainable...green. Because I can't pick just one reason why unless I boiled it down to:

1. It's just the right thing to do.

It is a simple answer lined with complexities that I will continue on with another day...

Industrial-produced meat is the topic fresh on my mind after reading an article from the Rolling Stone (see below for link). My interest took hold in an Animal Rights symposium in college. Now, I don't consider myself to be a lefty-whacko; I try and maintain balance in my views (I'm biased - I know.) But once I began to study and did eventually witness the "business" of meat production in modern America, I could no longer ignore the implications of buying cheap meat.

Click here to read an edgy Rolling Stone article on the Nation's largest pork producer, Smithfield Farms.