DJ B.K.
Number of posts : 352 Age : 39 Location : Cincinnati, Ohio Registration date : 2008-12-03 Points : 6180
| Subject: FOOD INC. Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:53 am | |
| Anybody heard about the film Food Inc.? Here's thew website: http://www.foodincmovie.com/Here's a basic description 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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MetalMatt
Number of posts : 5020 Age : 30 Location : Indiana Registration date : 2009-01-31 Points : 10951
| Subject: Re: FOOD INC. Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:06 am | |
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Matt
Number of posts : 7214 Age : 35 Location : - Registration date : 2008-11-02 Points : 8947
| Subject: Re: FOOD INC. Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:19 am | |
| Those kind of documentaries are interesting, but the problem is Europe's policies are way different than those in America, so those stats, numbers, facts have pretty much no use for me.
I wish we had this kind of stuff made about Europe (or even Belgium). |
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