For those of you who have seen "Food," what did you think?

I’m way down here in oz and I don’t know about “Food.” I just googled it but nothing came up but food without quotation marks. What is it?

No, but I learned the ways of good ol’ Monsanto, among others, in a class taught by Laura Nader, sister to Ralph.
It sounds like something I would be interested in. Should I make a night of it?

The book Mad Cowboy was the catalyst for a change in my thoughts towards beef and general meat consumption. I still eat seafood but beef is out of the question.

Do you have a link?

Here’s one of many: http://www.foodincmovie.com/about-the-film.php

It’s a scary documentary about what happens to real food and what it turns into by the time it hits our supermarkets. All HS kids should watch it. Everyone who eats should see it.

I haven’t seen or heard about it but I am definitely terrified by what I am eating. I try to search out markets and get to know the people, find out their theories on growing, the same with meats. But where I live now, it is so difficult, I am frequently forced to buy at the local supermarket. I often think when I buy chicken breasts, they are so big, the chicken must not have been able to walk.

I will watch for this, see if I can find it online.

There are 2 books, fiction, but informative and entertaining to read, one about gm veg and the other about livestock feeding practices. The author is Ruth Ozecki and the books are “All Over Creation” and “My Year of Meats.”

I hope our next residence is large enough to have a garden, not to mention closer to civilization where farmer’s markets are accessible and I can find someone who raises grass fed cattle. It’s not easy though.

I haven’t seen it, but I want to see it. It won’t change my eating habits, although I’ll change them when I can.

There were parts of this movie where I had to cover my eyes.

I found the trailer

Just watched the trailer. These sorts of things really upset me. I know whats wrong with the food we eat, and I feel like I can do nothing about it.
When you get food stamps, you can decide to buy affordable food, or natural/organic which is much more expensive and uses up your allotted money. It literally sucks so bad to have to make those choices.

Like much of the films produced by Michael Moore and others of his ilk, this reeks of an agenda that I find distasteful. Sort of like the PETA folks that want to save all the pretty animals, but have no qualms about squishing spiders. fucking hypocrites. Those of you who say you’ll eat fish but not beef, well don’t eat the fish out of any US rivers, as any river with any sort of industry on its shores, the fish that live there will be laden with mercury, PCBs, agricultural runoff and more chemicals than you can shake a cow’s jawbone at.

These films take the worst perpretrators of commercial agricultural abuses and get people to believe that ALL agricultural businesses operate in such a heinous manner. Ever been on a farm? Ever seen a REAL Midwestern farm where the animals are actually cared for? The place I buy my meat treats their animals with respect, right up to the moment that they kill them to harvest their meat.

Not all meat producers are soulless greedy corporate monsters. Buyer beware.

Edit, I watched the trailer. I love how so much of it was taken out of context. The farmer that says “Smells like money” that is a common refrain among hog farmers, and concerns the atrocious smell of hog poop.

This is more bullshit from the people that don’t care about farmers because they buy their corn in a can at the supermarket. :::eye roll:::

Someone was just telling me about this movie today! [Follows thread]

I think that’s what they said to Upton Sinclair as well. Even if the issues are blown up, which I doubt, the fact is the meat industry treats animals poorly. Spiders aren’t the only things that deserve to live.

If you are in a position where you have to buy food from a grocery store chain, you are almost always buying factory farmed meats. That means cruel and unhealthy in my mind.

@rooeytoo and the funny thing is, people automatically assume that if you purchase meat for consumption, then you are guilty by association of buying your food from the greedy soulless bastards that mistreat animals for profit.* I buy my meat from places that do not operate that way. I may be a carnivore, but I still have a conscience.

*that assumption for one pisses me off more than anything.

@evelyns_pet_zebra: See the entire movie, please, before you pass judgment. There are large sections on sustainability and farmers who let their cows graze, their pigs wallow in slop and their chickens kick up dust.

Huge corporations like Monsanto are making it very difficult for these farmers and growers to stay in business. Small farmers can no longer clean and plant their own seeds. Monsanto has law suits out agains seed cleaners. M insists that every farmer buy its patented corn seed, for example.

The movie’s powerful message is to educate everyone about what food is, how to plant and grow it, how to treat animals (if you plan to eat them) in a non-abusive way, how to read labels on processed foods, and pass this info on to school children and avoid doctrine and propaganda.

Before you discuss reeking agendas, watch the film.