Description
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, herbicide-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.
Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
Language : English
Product dimensions : 1.42 x 13.79 x 19.1 cm; 72.01 Grams
Item Model Number : 10216
Media Format : Closed-captioned, Dubbed, AC-3, Multiple Formats, Dolby, NTSC, Color, Widescreen, Subtitled
Run time : 1 hour and 33 minutes
Release date : 3 November 2009
Actors : FOOD, INC.
Dubbed: : Spanish
Subtitles: : Spanish
Language : Unqualified (Dolby Digital 5.0)
Studio : MAGNOLIA
ASIN : B0027BOL4G
Number of discs : 1
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Mr. Christopher J. Hudson –
When the ‘burger’ hits the fan….
This is an excellent film exposing in depth the shortcomings of the industrial food system. However it is also really positive and enjoyable to watch, showing that there ARE viable alternatives if only people were more aware of them. I did not think it was too shocking, although a vegetarian friend of mine only watched the first half; it is in the second half that the positive message really shines through. I loved this film and watched it in chapters over a period of days to let the message really sink in, although I already grow my own food, and eat organic whenever possible, so I was aware of some of the problems of the industrial system already. In an age where corprate, industrial and governmental land-grabs are removing indigenous populations from the land where they have traditionally grown the food to feed their communities this film send a vital message- we cannot carry on the way we are going and everyone will have to rethink where and how they get their food in the future.
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Vegan For Life ftp –
Everyone Should See This over and over,until what it really means sinks in
This gives a brief but very important and almost never publicized view of the sickening and unconscionable, wasteful,polluting and oversized food industry. What man does to animals,the environment,other people; enslaved in sickening and dangerous, bloody jobs in slaughter and meat packing;farming where they are exposed to chemicals and toxic heavy metals used by the agricultural industry,or trapped by the cycle of debt and spending in production that is too big to be manageable, proves what a monster man is when man dominates,controls,manipulates,enslaves;brutalizing and destroying the lives of animals,other people,and the environment.In Food Inc,in the brief scenes where live animals are shown,you see a farmer talking about his animals,who aren’t in CAFO’s or factory farms,and the chickens who are being slaughtered by being placed,upside down with their heads sticking out, in a cone shaped decapitator,all scream and cry when they’re being unmercifully murdered,one after the other. The man seems like he’s human and he seems glad his animals aren’t in the horrible industrial food chain/slaughter/processing system like most animals slaughtered for food are. Yet he hears and sees them helpless and slaughtered. (I think he was in Farmageddon,another agricultural-practices DVD also). But his idea is more the quality of his food not being so toxic and polluted and unnatural, as the food-products from the mega-operations and unmanageably big producers are;the animals and their lives aren’t his topic. They still are slaughtered for food and he pulls the entrails out of a freshly slaughtered chicken as he’s speaking. In Food Inc you also hear the cow’s voices and see the cold brutality as someone tries to make a sick or lame cow,a ‘downer cow’ stand up,prodding with an electric cattle prod,shoving with a fork lift. The cow is crying and helpless and in fear. Trying to escape what will only be very evil and cruel and inhuman,when she is finally brutalized and moved,either by force or hoisted,live,by one leg,by a chain which will yank her up till she’s dangling,head down and brutalize her. A scene like that is at the beginning of Glass Walls,a 13 minute DVD and youtube video,narrated by Paul McCartney. You don’t see the cruel brutality that I know they do to downer cows,in Food Inc.In Food Inc you see the ‘killing floor’ at Smithfield slaughterhouse and they mention it by name,then all you see is pig after pig,unconscious or stunned,still and unmoving, coming down a large,stainless steel ramp like a wide,play ground sliding board. Though what you don’t see are pigs who are very much conscious,going through the boiling water, screaming and going through the slaughter process and skinning, alive,like happens on a regular basis in every type of slaughter. The stunning doesn’t always work. Chickens. Cows. Pigs. Turkeys. Goats. Lambs. Sheep. Nobody cares what they do to animals who are destined to be skinned and ripped apart in slaughter. The animals aren’t stunned when they should have been,or the way they should have been,or the animals regain consciousness. But nobody cares and nobody has time to give that tiny human act of not sending a fully conscious animal through the slaughter process. Another animal is coming through to be stunned and ripped into pieces,sliced and skinned,gutted and decapitated,in the nightmare gore of brutality,to stock grocery store meat shelves. You see illegal immigrants,workers at the slaughterhouse,getting rounded up and taken from their home, by ICE. And you see a man taken to court by Monsanto for “cleaning his own seeds”;he had to abandon his fight because he ran out of money to pay his legal fees;someone said fighting in the courts is like seeing lady Justice holding the scales and,whoever piles the most money on,wins. And you also see,and hear about common items in grocery stores,and about GMO products and Monsanto. And one part that talks about successful organicMerchandising.Our industrial food chain is unnatural and wrong. And so many foods are unhealthy and unnecessary.Food Inc tells people what I doubt they know. And also tells people something they need to know,and to start thinking about. And to start considering,and to start changing,and to start doing something about.
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Cliente Amazon –
impressionante!
Vedere il ciclo di produzione del cibo in nord america serve a capire come non ripetere gli stessi errori. Uno schifo!
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alessandro migliorini –
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Dovrebbero farlo vedere nelle scuole (medie e superiori). Documentario ben fatto. Altre 9 parole nn so ke caz scrivervi boh
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H. Shadroui –
a companion to the film
This is a decent companion to the film, with some essays by people who are interviewed in the film, such as Michael Pollan and the guy from Polyface Farms. In addition, there are action points about what you can do in the US to try to ensure that animals are treated humanely and that you are buying the best quality food for your family.All the themes treated in the film are also treated in the book.
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Bookphile –
One of the most important films you’ll ever watch
I have been aware of Food, Inc. for some time, but watching it kept getting lost in the shuffle. Now that I’ve finally watched it, I’m sorry that I let it get lost in the shuffle for so long. Saying that it is one of the most important films you’ll ever watch seems rather bombastic, but I’m serious about that claim. I had already begun to change my buying habits at the grocery store and to begin to consider what I am putting my body and the bodies of my children, and this film made me more convinced than ever that this is not only the right thing to do, but also the only responsible thing to do.What was really telling for me was how the major corporations that were examined (Tyson’s, Monsanto, etc.) refused to comment on the film. When we walk into a U.S. grocery store, we have certain expectations about the quality of our foods. When a film like this starts to poke holes into those illusions, and the major corporations concerned with these products refuse to comment, what should we, as consumers, think of their lack of response? The current climate in the U.S. has shown us what happens when capitalism is allowed to run amok, when the dollar becomes more important than the person who is holding it. It’s not overstating things to say that what’s going on in the food industry right now is every bit as alarming as what was going on in our financial institutions.I think what this film best illustrates is how our politicians (on both sides of the aisle), our government, and the heads of the departments we’ve entrusted to ensure our safety (USDA, FDA, et al.) have routinely sold us out for the sake of the almighty dollar. The production of food has become so industrialized in this nation that the focus has shifted from ensuring safety to turning a blind eye in order to ensure the continued padding of the bottom line. If Upton Sinclair could see what’s going on today, he would despair over how we’ve learned nothing from his groundbreaking work, “The Jungle”.My one issue with this film is its delicate handling of the new organic food industry. I have switched to buying mostly organic foods, but I often wonder if this really is the solution to the problem, as it claims to be. As these large organic companies (Stonyfield Farm, anyone?) start to grow to conglomerate status, do we run the risk of finding ourselves right back at square one? I think the producers should have considered taking a harder look at these companies as well.Still, this is a film that is essential. If Americans do not stand up and demand to know where their food comes from, demand to know why current practices are accepted, we all run the risk of a public health disaster. This may sound dramatic, but one need only look at the rampant e. coli outbreaks to see that the proof is literally in the pudding. We have grown far, far too complacent about the things we put into our mouths, trusting to regulatory agencies that are no longer operating under the mandate of ensuring public safety.The best lesson anyone can take from this film is that each and every one of us has the power. Yes, these are huge corporations that command legions of lawyers and billions of dollars in profits, but where do those profits come from? If we vote with our wallets, if we refuse to accept the presence of cloned meat and bio-engineered corn products in our foods, these companies will have no choice but to stand up and take notice. We all need to go to the grocery store, pick up a container, read the ingredients, and walk away from anything that has unnatural ingredients in it. In this way, we can all become agents for the changes we want to see effected.
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Sylvie Pasqualin –
DVD de mauvaise qualité
Le DVD s’arrête et ne peut être lu après 59mns. Même constat après deux essais avec deux lecteurs différents !
Seeker –
Enough is enough, DO NOT mess with our food!!!
I just received the DVD in the mail and finished watching it. This is simply outrageous and incredible. One would think that this sort of irresponsible corporate behavior only happened in the 3rd world. WRONG! This is happening right here in our backyard. I am indeed surprised that Monsanto, Perdue and others have not silenced Eric Schlosser or managed to ban the DVD.It seems that human beings NEVER LEARN. Throughout human history there have been numerous empires, a search in WIKI with the word “List of empires” will produce a huge list. Each of them thought they will be around forever. However, if someone in this century can name even five of those long gone empires, I would be impressed! The point I am trying to make is that human greed that drives these sort of practices can never last. Granted it will do a lot of damage until it is expunged, but its days are numbered.Ask any student in high school these days, if they have heard of IBM and you will probably get a blank look. The same would be the case for General Dynamics and a host of other big behemoth corporations which have all been reduced to the status of “Also ran!” The point I am driving at is that longevity and artificially created monopolization do not mix well. They may appear to be winning for a time, but in retrospect it is always for a short duration.I always maintain that we do not need an external power to destroy us, because we will destroy ourselves through greed! What Al Qaeda was unable to do, namely dismantling the economy of this great nation, was almost suceesfully accomplished by the “All American” big corporations such as, Lehman Bros., AIG, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Citi Corp etcLikewise Monsanto, Perdue, Tyson, Con Agra, BPI, IBP, Smithfield and the others in the film, along with the Healthcare (Hospitals and Doctors) corporations will send everyone to an early grave through lots of suffering. However, hopefully sooner rather than later, the public will wake up and cry, “Enough!”This film must be shown 24/7 on cable networks, made available in schools, libraries, gym, etc. Anyone who has children must make them watch this film so that they are made aware of the consequences of what they put into their mouths.For those who are open to advice from a stranger, I suggest that they clean out their colon, eat raw living foods (sprouts, green smoothies, wheatgrass juice, fruits, seeds, uncooked food etc) and do LOTS of yoga. This is the way to a disease free life with minimum impact upon the environment and resources — land and human suffering. This will also help reduce the cost of health care tremendously. Most importantly it will produce health and happiness in the lives of everyone who follows the advice. Any disease, manifested or gestating or seemingly incurable, will be healed. This is my greatest learning in the 51 yrs I have been on this planet! Please take action for your health while you still can. Once you slip into the jaws of the mega corporations through eating the manipluated and poisoned food, or by being operated upon by the modern butchers of medicine (doctors), it may be too late to recover from a fate worse than death!Here is another DVD that I place in the same stellar league as this one. The name is “Healing Cancer”. Even though the title implies that it deals with cancer alone, in reality the methods therein are generic enough to apply to all diseases — chronic, degenerative and terminal.
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Nora Massoli –
Interessante
Molto interessante, anche se per alcuni aspetti penso sia più illuminante per il pubblico americano, meno informato mediamente di noi italiani sulla qualità di ciò che mangiamo
Hard Working Woman –
Sadly not able to tell the whole story
On the whole an excellent film. Agribusiness in the USA has most of the population in its ruthless grip as this documentary clearly highlights. Unfortunately, as so many of the practices in the livestock industry are deliberately hidden from the public gaze and cameras are not allowed, it was not able to give the whole picture. I am convinced that if this film was shown in schools and on mainstream television, vast numbers of people would change their eating habits.It is appalling that GM has crept into the food chain so insidiously and there’s no labelling. As for all the chemicals in processed products, they are yet another reason to go organic.It was cheering to see that such organic farmers as Joel Palatin were interviewed as they represent a tiny shred of hope. However, as long as the advertisers have their (misrepresentative) way,the general public will be taken in and only when they go down with a variety of food-related illnesses might they sit up and take notice. Sad, we’re taking part in a human cull through the horrors we eat, but then there’s the pharmaceutical industry to sell us all their drugs. Neat little arrangement.p.s. the more I learn about the food business in the States, the more determined I am not to go there.
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Tapesar –
Elevage intensif
A voir pour savoir (encore une fois) et pour mieux choisir ce qu’on mange.Le maïs (de Monsanto) se retrouve dans de nombreux aliments …Où des poulets élevés aux antibiotiques (favorisant la résistance des bactéries) sans voir la lumière du jour, entassés les uns sur les autres et les pieds dans la m**** finissent dans notre assiette parce qu’ils sont moins chers et plus gros …
Elisa D. –
Da dove viene ciò che mangiamo?
Un documentario sconvolgente che cambia il modo di vedere la nostra alimentazione. Da dove viene la carne che mangiamo? Consigliato a tutti coloro che hanno piacere ad approfondire la tematica e a ‘vederci chiaro’.
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Laura –
Interessante
Ben fatto, interessante e utile e poi c’è Saladin.
thierry –
Excellent documentaire
Excellent documentaire, je le conseil à tous. Voila un doc qui va changer votre vision des choses ! Passer de consommateur à consom’acteur !
VickyNC –
The costs of “abundant cheap food” to our health and humanity
This award-winning documentary along with the documentary “King Corn” had a profound effect on me and has permanently changed my lifestyle and diet. I am not a counter-culture, idealistic college student–I am a retired college professor who was in the health professions my entire career. What has happened to our food supply as a result of providing “abundant cheap food” in the U.S. since 1973 is eyeopening and a wake-up call to each of us regarding what we eat and support through our food dollars as individuals and as a nation. “Our bodies are not just what we eat but what we eat, eats”. The control of U.S. agriculture by a very few large agribusiness companies; limiting the number of crops grown and varieties; the modification of seeds and trademarking life forms has implications that could prove diasterous not only to us but the entire world’s food supply.Organic foods and sustainable farming offers people an option to purchase and eat foods which are not loaded with pesticide and herbicide residues; to eat and drink dairy products, eggs and meat animals that are not loaded with growth hormones to spur production and to put weight on quickly to maximize profits of the huge companies; to decrease the potential of causing “superbugs” resistant to antibiotics caused by the administration of continuous antibiotics to keep food animals alive under unnatural and horrific conditions being fed #2 field corn (which they would never eat if allowed a normal life before slaughter for food.) Cattle evolved to eat grass, not grain and the effects on the animal are known but ignored–our beef today contains only 60% of the protein it contained in the mid 1950s thanks to meat packers wanting the highly marbled (read fat)beef. Fish farmers are even trying to get salmon and tilapia to accept #2 field corn feed. The high fructose corn syrup and other products from #2 field corn are in almost all of our grocery products on the market–even those items we do not think of as being sweet. I no longer wonder why people have such a hard time losing weight when most of us eat a diet loaded with hormones given to animals to put on weight quickly and high fructose corn syrup in almost everything we eat.The U.S. government does not allow genetically-modified food to be labelled; as a result a number of European countries will no longer import certain foods from the U.S. since they require the labelling of genetic modification to grains, fruits and vegetables. No one (no one) knows the long term effects of using bacteria and viruses to introduce foreign genes from other species into food we eat.The health risks and costs of “abundant cheap food”—what it has done to small family farms that did not go along with big agribusiness practices; the requirement of more and more pesticides which may be partially responsible for the abandonment of hives and death of thousands of our pollinators esp. the honey bee. Principles of organic farming which enriches the soil, is better for the farmer, farm animals and us is more expensive than what most of us have been eating everyday. As a consumer and someone concerned about the implications of standard, modern agricultural practices, I am willing to pay more for the farmer to farm organically–I support fair-trade and believe the farmer and his family need to be to support themselves and their way of life.As a result of the documentaries my diet is now as much organic as possible; I no longer eat beef, pork, chickens, dairy or eggs produced by the big food processors. I now read labels on the food products I buy to make sure I am not ingesting sweeteners made from #2 field corn. I try to buy wild, Alaskan salmon rather than farmed or Atlantic salmon. I believe my diet is now more nutritious and tastier than ever before. My granddaughter has her master’s degree in nutrition and she and her parents have also made changes in their diet from the belief that they will be healthier.I recommend this documentary and “King Corn” to anyone interested in their health and nutrition.
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MaxB –
Food Inc. Shocking, Enlightening and necessary!
And you thought food was nutritious and kept you well. This is the shocking academy award nominated documentary of animal mistreatment and people being treated every bit as badly as the animals in the interest of bottom line profit in the highly industrialised Agri-businesses of the USA. The antibiotics in your food supply in the name of adding 25% more weight to the slaughter animals, while producing resistance to antibiotics in the very pathogens that threaten your life. The Monsanto GM plants that not only threaten to impoverish the third world farmers – but are already doing so in the USA in the name of intellectual propert rights. The political protection of the few food conglomerates, right to the US supreme court already disgust one – but then you need to hear about the contamination inherent in the industrial food processes, the risks to your health whenever you eat a fast food hamburger (tens of animals contribute to that patty from a range of 1500 miles to central industrial abattoirs and factories) or slice of cold meat. Cry with the pigs. The DVD is a top example of investigative journalism that has brought even Monsanto’s CEO to admitting that he should have agreed to being interviewed. The words of Ghandi are quoted by director Robert Kenner: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Perhaps you should buy and watch this dvd: get back some control of what goes into your mouth, get back your health, maybe you can still at least break even.The DVD as received is region 2 (PAL), right for Europe, Africa and Japan, and of excellent quality in an innovative cardboard sleeved package.
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Moni –
Bellissimo!!
Avevo letto in precedenza molti libri sulla provenienza del cibo che mangiamo e mi era piaciuto in particolar modo “Il dilemma dell’onnovoro” di Pollack a cui fa riferimento questo film. Le informazioni lette nel libro pero’, viste sullo schermo, sono ancora piu’ drammatiche e sconvolgenti e fanno capire il problema fino in fondo. Il film è ben fatto e sviscera l’argomento con chiarezza. La visione è adatta anche per i ragazzini e li aiuta a capire cosa c’è davvero dietro ai loro miti alimentari. Secondo me é un film interessante e pieno di informazioni utili.
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Number 6 –
Très bon documentaire
L’humain dans toute sa splendeur, prêts à faire tout et n’importe quoi pour gagner toujours plus au détriment des autres.Le meilleur moyen de devenir végétarien c’est de regarder ce documentaire, âmes sensibles s’abstenir.
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Mrs. Ingrid Wilson –
Caring about the food you eat.
Had this film been released thirty years ago it would have been X rated and under the heading of science fiction/horror, however, the brave new world we live in is the 21st century and the way our food is being produced and the inhumane way the animals are treated are facts well shown in this film. Also shown is the hold that the multi nationals have over our health via the food we eat. The call for cheap food is a false premise, this food is only cheap because of the subsidies paid to the Big Boys who own us, body and soul. For anyone who cares what they eat and how it is produced and care about farmers receiving a fair price for their products this is essential viewing.It should be included in national curriculums so that the young can make informed choices for their future health and the future of this planet.The film evidently has to traverse a mine field of potential law suites and gagging orders but the message as told by those directly concerned within the industries is loud and clear. We thouroughly recommend this film and praise the courage of the makers.
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Darlene N. Bocek –
Whistle-Blower. WHAT IF THERE WAS A CURE FOR OBESITY, CANCER, ALZHEIMERS, ADD, & AUTISM, BUT BIG BUSINESS
WHAT IF THERE WAS A CURE FOR OBESITY, CANCER, ALZHEIMERS, ADD, & AUTISM, BUT BIG BUSINESS WAS HUSHING IT UP? Can’t say enough about this video. I wish it were required for students, but the threat on our economy by the things it shows would shift around some wealth in a big way. And Big Business carries a Big Stick in Washington. The final point is, if we want change in the food industry, we vote with every meal. Changing the industry may require a financial burden on families, but the government will not make the changes when people would rather eat unhealthy food cheaply and save their money for diet pills, prescription drugs, and cancer treatment.This video goes hand in hand with FED UP, which deals with sugar and hints at the mum-order put on Michelle Obama when she tried to make the nation aware of the problem.Also recommended follow-up is the book BRAIN MAKER by neurosurgeon David Perlmutter. This explains the inner workings of the gut and its effect on neurological problems like Alzheimers, Autism, and ADD. He calls Alzheimers Type 3 Diabetes. All of this is related to what FOOD INC and FED UP are exposing. A silent chemical warfare on the citizens of America.Unfortunately, the economy would be shaken if people started to pay attention, so big business is in the business of hushing whistle-blowers like these. You will not regret watching this, and it may save your life.
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Mr. Starks –
The Love of Money!!!
They said that Tyson, Perdue and Monsanto were the controllers. Terrible abuse to young chicks and chickens. Chickens are in their own feces and cannot stand up because of weight and body filled with drugs! Farmers are $280k to $500k in debt and only earn about $18k per year! Must keep their mouths shut!!! Black workers switched to Latinos because they have no rights! Cows have to stand in manure all day and one had broken legs. Workers are locked up, but rich owners go free!!! Food in stores owned by a few companies and there are only a few crops! Healthy little boy dies in 12 days from hamburger!!! He was on dialysis before his death. Picture of pretty little girl very sick! They are feeding us poisonous garbage!!! The farm businesses were nasty, filthy and hellish!!! One lady stood up against them and was shut down. Even her chickens were dying a lot. Older man trying to help friends was interrogated because of patent. Going through his bank accounts, etc. Cannot talk against the old Mafia since they are doing similar things! The symptoms of E. coli 0157:H7 infection may include a low fever, nausea, vomiting, stomach cramps, and bloody diarrhea; the infection is contagious and can be spread from person to person by fecal contamination. THE “LOVE” OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL KINDS OF EVILS!!! (BIBLE)
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Ann Q. Turley –
Need to Watch!!
After watching this documentary, I am more aware of what my family eats and where it all comes from. I feel that it enplanes why our obesity rate has multiplied in the past 20 years. with all the growth hormones and the e-coli poisonings. this is a MUST WATCH Show! Thanks to Oprah, i would have kept suspecting what was happening to our food. But now I Know about the tons of antibiotics and the geneticly altered foods that we eat. We as a Nation have a right to know. It’s the corporations that have taken our rights away in a underhanded way. As a nation we have always been told that united we stand divided we fall. We have become so trusting in our food. The doctors have been questioning why are So many people so Sick? Why does America have a weight issue, what about illegal immigration? well this explains that too. It also gives you Hope that if we bind together and stand up for ourselves. we CAN change these companies, AND our political system. I recommend that everyone watches this video. It’s powerful, It’s informative, It’s matter of fact. every company that is represented in this documentary has had the opportunity to be interviewed but for some reason they declined. So much to hide and too much money to loose. the CEO’s of these companies don’t care about the health of the American people, it all come down to Money. What do we care about? Money or our health? Do we really care about the future of our children? they won’t have one if we allow the companies to carry on like they have. They take living animals and change them into creatures that are sick and sell them to us, to feed to our kids. What are we going to do about it?
Mr. G –
Our food is killing us
Read my title of this review (as if you already didn’t know). Our food system is broken, there is no oversight, and food as we now know it isn’t really food at all. It’s as if we are eating a “notion” of food and not the actual original God given morsel. It’s really really depressing watching this video. This earth makes more than enough food to feed everyone organically well on this planet, yet, the large corporations are running our food system from seed to the supermarket and therefore control quality (or lack thereof) and pricing. Wish we could all share what God intended for us to eat on this earth; his natural food in it’s natural state. Greed is the reason behind altering corn seeds/plants, implementing HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) in just about every product, steroids and hormones in meat, and other non-necessary chemical additives.I’m no vegetarian (although I’m thinking of becoming one) but just doesn’t make sense to me why these huge corps pump chemicals into our food! It makes me want to scream. Worse yet, taste an organic piece of fruit and then taste a pesticide sprayed chemically altered one and see which one tastes better. The organic strawberry would win hands down. Organic food isn’t just good for you, it tastes better!Oh well, I’ll step off of my ranting soap box, but, we must all make a change when buying food. If we each bought one organic item everytime we shopped, maybe these corporations would have no choice but to compete for having the best organic food and produce. Until then, read every label and watch what goes into your mouth.
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Dre –
Very disappointed. It’s boring, selective, and has you filling in a lot of blanks.
Like the food industry, this movie falls short on presenting the science and statistics. There are several interesting sights, as well as some that will shock you pretty hard, but that’s where the positives end.Many stories were so slow and had so much repeated scenery that the whole film could’ve been compressed down to 20 minutes, leaving plenty of time for more detail. The organic section was confusing and was unclear in presentation on position. The end points to each section of the film delivered in interest, only to give way to a new topic entirely. There were only a few statistics in the film, i.e., those related to premature diabetes and costs. Much of the science is left uncertain, i.e., high fructose corn syrup is brought up as a topic, but then left unassociated with the rest of the film.I was also frustrated to see “Person XYZ declined an interview” for every other person. Seriously, why the hell even include so many people if they wouldn’t sit down with the producers? Go out there and find other people, and preferably people who can pop a story full of information. I feel like I paid my ticket for the show just to find out it’s closed due to maintenance.Two of the movie scenes were really dumb. As for the 10-minute immigrant video in the style of “COPS” – are you kidding me? There has to be a better way of showcasing “companies paying immigrants below minimum wage” than spending 15% of the film on gun scenes like these. As for the other scene, the dollar menu family of four who can’t afford to eat, seriously that was just pathetic. If you’re fat and can’t afford to eat/not enough time… swap for skim milk or eat less.Overall, the film feels like a string of loosely-connected partial interviews and hidden camera videos that have either a comical or sleepy feel, and sleepy in the not-detailed-enough sense. While the film showcases the evils of the food companies, this film has its own evil of selectively having you fill in the blanks… a lot of blanks. I have no idea what Eric Schlosser was thinking when he visioned an industry-changing 90-minute film, but I doubt this was it. Just save yourself and go read Fast Food Nation. You’ll appreciate the details a lot more, especially since the first 20 minutes of the film are basically a compressed summary of two of the chapters.
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J. M. Matthews –
Eye Opening
No real surprises here. Everything that I’ve heard before but portrayed in a very clear and graphic setting. What I found the most interesting (read disturbing) was the treatment of the animals that are bred and raised for food. Tyson and Purdue should be heavily regulated and fined for the disreputable practices they appear to be using to keep their chicken farmers under their thumb. It was extremely brave to the one person to allow access to show her chicken sheds to the film crew. And beef, besides being penned in and restricted they are mainly fed corn which also turns out to be one of the main culprits in the fattening of America.The portion of the film that shows the one farm in Virginia that raises their animals in a more natural environment with no corn feed was extremely interesting. The cattle eat natural grass and then drop the manure which naturally fertilizes the soil to grow more grass and also attracts bugs and insects for the chickens to eat as they follow in the path of the cows feeding. Very natural and super efficient.That farm gives tours and has an event in July to show people just how they operate. Planning to visit it to see the more natural method of raising our food animals. We should respect the animals that provide us with our food and this seems to me to be the way to do it.
Susan B. –
FOOD, INC.
Excellent movie that should open up the consumers’ eyes. My personal experiences at stock barns, farms, food factories, grocery stores, restaurants, etc., was realistic and many times a horror, but this movie shows us what our country has come to and what the average consumer isn’t aware of, is complacent to, or just plain apathetic about.It shows us who’s running the country in regard to what we are dependent on… FOOD. It should kick the mentality of intelligent people into not buying into the propaganda we are fed, and becoming less dependent on the buying that we now experience. Peoples’ lives are apparently not as precious as the almighty dollar. Our government is also slacking off by letting this go on by not putting more people with integrity into the jobs associated with our food consumption system. Animals as well as humans are being degraded and treated less than inhumane. Putting thought back into how we live now as compared to 50 years ago, may rattle some cages and the truth may get them to show some real patriotism and caring about others in this country.I think that watching this movie would be educating as well as motivating to any human being who watches it! Diseases and health issues are rampant and this movie gives us a glimpse into that. What I really admire, is that this isn’t a PETA documentary, but written by an omnivore just like me.I thank Bill and Louise Daniels of WellSpring Lifestyle Retreat in Goodspring, TN for recommending this movie to me.Carpe diem, ya’ll! Make a difference, even if it’s a small one.
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Fancy That Cake custom cakes –
A eye opener
This is a must watch for everyone in America who eats meat. It’s really a disgust to see the other side of our food supply controlled by I’m sure a few LARGE businesses. My wife and I now buy very little meat from Wal-Mart and the grocery Store. We bought a deep freezer and got on the internet and to out surprise there was several people in a thirty mile radius of us in the same movement we wanted to head and we found local beef, pork and chickens we now purchase. We have shopped around some and already found prices comparable to Wal-Mart prices too. We found a lady who sells eggs for a dollar a dozen all we want. We just bought three quarters of a cow at four dollars a pound of edible meat and when you average ground beef all the way up to sirloins and t-bones I’d say that was a pretty good bargain.Use common sense and research around starting with this movie. Then use common sense and tell yourself your body can’t take all these antibiotics and hormones they pump full in your food supply just to get it raised faster and bigger all for one purpose to them – to make more money. Don’t take my word for it and maybe this movie won’t even convince you but please don’t just call it a conspiracy theory and blow it off like I’ve already had family members and friends do to me. Please read all you want wherever you can get information and please use logical deduction and common sense and think about your bodies and your children’s bodies.thanks, Jonathan
Vanessa –
Must see!!!!
This movie is a must see!!! It Does not show the butchering of the animals and it’s not all about how the animals are mis treated it’s a WAY BIGGER picture than that!!! It ‘s about what the food industry isn’t telling you about what actually is in your food!!! What you may be feeding your kids!!! Everyone has the right to know what’s in their food and how their food is being processed!!! You think it’s gross if you’re out eating somehere and the cook drops your food on the floor or he/she didn’t wash their hands before handling your food well do you ever wonder how your food was processed before even getting Into that restaurant?!? Or what kind of chemicals or how many antibiotics they put on your food before it got into the grocery store you shop at?!?! everyone has a right to know and the food industry has kept it behind a curtain for too long!!! This movie did not make me a vegetarian or vegan not that any of them are bad!! Bravo to those who can give up meat!! I just am so much more aware of what’s in my food and what I eat! One thing that I have boycotted is fast food! Not only because of how the food is processed but because of what the fast food industry stands for! It’s horrible!! This is just my own opinion watch the movie yourself and make an opinion for yourself!! If anything you’ll be more knowledgeable of what is being put into the food you eat!!
AvgMom2 –
Looking at our food from a whole new perspective
The cover of this DVD states: “You’ll never look at dinner the same way again” and it’s true. This movie follows the food from their sources to our supermarket. The sordid method of mass production and the repulsive ways used to bring the food to our table as cheap as possible is beyond abomination. Yes, I knew that mass production requires putting the livestock in large bins. What I didn’t know was that overcrowding was to such an extent that animals were living on top of one another. Compassion and the humane treatment should be exercised whenever you are dealing with any livestock.As our food industry’s corporations become more powerful, we come face-to-face with the little guys (small farmers and organic growers) who try to offer the public alternative choices…and how they were met with lawsuits and threats from these corporations. There’s nothing I need THAT BAD where I have to give my business to any company that uses threats!So now that I have this knowledge, what would I be doing differently? I won’t be buying meat packages in bulk from my supermarket, that’s for sure. I will be buying organic meat products from now on. Yes, they are more expensive but I’ll be buying in smaller amounts. When I prepare meals for my family, it’ll be quality over quantity. And I think that’s a very good thing! This DVD is recommended for those people who value their body and the health of their family. Not recommended for children, as some images are very disturbing.
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TV –
NO HE PODIDO VERLO
No he podido ver el documental. Resulta que es NTSC y mi reproductor no es compatible, como es natural en un reproductor de España. No he podido verlo ni siquiera en el ordenador con programas supuestamente válidos para NTSC.¿Qué hacen vendiendo en amazon.es un producto NTSC y encima sin especificarlo claramente?
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Peter H. Cloutier –
Disturbing but essential info. A call to action!
This DVD tells a story that is appalling to people concerned with truth in general and with their and others’ health. Are the facts in the story true? I believe they are because there are a number of confirming books, videos, and magazine articles that tell similar stories. So, if the story is true, then the situation regarding many foods sold to the public in the United States is appalling. I suspect the situation is the same to at least some degree in other countries so the story concerns all of us. I mean who really has faith in the mass-produced foods imported from China or Brazil? Have you ever seen the videos of Pangasius fish farms in Vietnam or salmon farms in Norway and the ones the Norwegians have opened in Canada? What is truly scary is the extent to which we suspect the corruption of some of our representatives in Washington and some key officers in the federal agencies meant to protect the public. With the disastrous Supreme Court decision in the Citizens’ Union case which opens the floodgates of corporate and self-interested money that can be spent toward political ends, whose influence was confirmed absolutely in the recent Congressional elections, we, the public, are left exposed and unprotected unless we take action ourselves.How can we take action? Stop buying processed foods, farmed fish, non-organically raised meat. Buy organic from trusted sources. It will cost more money but then you know that you need to reduce the volume of food that you eat so do it now and save some or all of that additional cost.No amount of public outrage will persuade a representative to vote against the interests of a corporation that finances his election campaign because our system is such that he has no option to get elected or re-elected. No amount of public outrage will change our overly technical and procedure-heavy legal system that allows a hugely wealthy Monsanto to financially exhaust a farmer whose non-GM fields become polluted by wind-borne patented GM seeds and spores. The only way to cause change is to stop buying these terrible products and by-products and make market forces do the work that we can no longer trust others to do for us. We’ll become slimmer and healthier at the same time.
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Danny –
Die nackte und erschreckende Wahrheit über die Lebensmittelindustrie
Nie war meine Schockierung über ein scheinbar belangloses Thema größer, als nach dieser Dokumentation. Man möchte annehmen, Lebensmittelkonzerne sind bemüht um die Sicherheit und Gesundheit ihrer Konsumenten. Es ginge ihnen um die Produktion qualitativ hochwertiger Nahrungsmittel, Nachhaltigkeit und das Wohl aller – sollte man denken. Doch die Wahrheit sieht komplett anders aus, wie diese Dokumentation zeigt. Und nicht zuletzt aufgrund zahlreicher Aussagen und Interviews von Betroffenen, Beteiligten und ehemaligen Konzernmitarbeitern ist an der Richtigkeit dieser Informationen wohl kaum zu zweifeln.Egal ob Fleisch, Getreide oder Gemüse – alles ist von den Verhaltensweisen der Konzerne betroffen. Das fängt bereits bei der Fleischproduktion an: Wo es in den USA der 1940er Jahre noch hunderte bis tausende Schlachthöfe gab, so gibt es heute nur mehr weniger als 100 davon, die allesamt in Händen von ein paar wenigen Konzernen sind, die den Fleischmarkt fest in Händen haben. Durch intensive Lobbyarbeit und Kontakte zu den Höchsten der Regierung ist es diesen ein Leichtes, die Gesetze, Regelungen und Vorschriften zu ihren Gunsten ausgestalten zu lassen, um damit rücksichtslos gegen Kontrahenten wie Konsumenten-, Tier- oder Umweltschützer vorzugehen. Von den Bauern, die durch eben diese Vorschriften immer weiter in die Verschuldung und somit in die Abhängigkeit von den Konzernen getrieben werden, möchte ich gar nicht reden. Ebenso wenig von den Schlachttieren, die unter den schlechtesten und tierunwürdigsten Bedingungen gehalten werden – seien es Rinder, Schweine oder Hühner.Den Tieren wird nicht-artgerechtes Futter verabreicht, das in den Körpern Bakterien bildet, die ohne Kontrolle ins Fleisch mit verarbeitet und den Konsumenten wortwörtlich zum Fraß vorgesetzt wird. Daran sind bereits Menschen gestorben, u.a. Kinder, was in dieser Doku ausführlich geschildert wird. Trotzdem haben die Lebensmittelkontrollen in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten in den USA deutlich abgenommen, die Lebensmittel- und Konsumentenschutzbehörden stehen unter nicht unbedeutendem Einfluss der Konzerne. Hühner werden bis zum Geht-nicht-mehr gemästet, sodass sie kaum noch gehen können und auf engstem Raum in ihrem eigenen Dreck leben müssen. Tageslicht und Auslauf wird ihnen unter dem Vorwand verwehrt, dies könnte sich unhygienisch auf das Fleisch auswirken – dass die Tiere in Dreck leben wird wohl als außerordentlich “hygienisch” angesehen. Fragt sich nur, wieso es dann nötig ist, die geschlachteten Tiere in Chlorwasser zu tauchen, was nebenbei ebenfalls im Fleisch enthalten bleibt.Eine der größten Ungeheuerlichkeiten ist die Tatsache, dass Grundnahrungsmittel in den USA von Konzernen patentierbar sind. So “gehört” beispielsweise das Saatgut von Mais und Sojabohne einer einzigen Firma, die damit tun und lassen kann was sie möchte, was gentechnische Veränderung angeht. Durch Knebelverträge werden Bauern daran gehindert, jemals wieder eigenes Saatgut zu benutzen, geschweige denn, die Saat aus der letzten Ernte wieder einzusetzen. Dazu werden Spritzmittel mit Gentechnik-Saat als “Gesamtpaket” verkauft, um die Pflanze gegen das giftigste Gift resistent zu machen. Dass der Boden und das Leben darin dadurch vollständig und irreversibel zerstört werden, scheint die Konzerne dabei wenig zu kümmern. Auch dass die Unkräuter mit der Zeit gegen alles resistent werden und damit durch nichts mehr zu bewältigen sind, leuchtet vielleicht vielen ein, doch es wird insbesondere von denjenigen, die etwas dagegen tun könnten, standhaft ignoriert. Durch diese profitorientierten Eingriffe in die Natur sind bereits 25 Millionen Hektar (= 250.000 Quadrat-km) in den USA nicht mehr zu bewirtschaften, da die Unkräuter gegen alles immun sind. Das entspricht etwa der dreifachen Fläche Österreichs, die man komplett mit der Hand bearbeiten müsste, um sie wieder bepflanzbar zu machen.Bauern, die auf die natürliche Methode setzen, sei es bei Pflanzen oder Tieren, werden von den großen Konzernen als Feinde betrachtet und rücksichtslos durch Klagen beseitigt. Sie haben allesamt keinerlei Hilfe zu erwarten, da die Entscheidungsträger dieser Fälle oftmals ehemalige Konzernmitarbeiter sind. Zu alldem kommt erschwerend hinzu, dass es vielerorts keinerlei Kennzeichnungspflichten gibt, was Zutaten, Gentechnik oder Herkunft des/der Produkte(s) angeht. So ist es den Konzernen ein leichtes, den Konsumenten glückliche Kühe auf der Wiese vorzugaukeln, die in Wirklichkeit in Massentierhaltung ihr Leben fristen müssen und dabei Mais bekommen, obwohl sie Grasfresser sind. Oder hochwertiges Getreide, “sorgfältig ausgewählt”, das in Wirklichkeit auf toten Böden wächst und von Anfang bis Ende mit chemischen Mitteln bespritzt wird.Wer öffentlich seine Meinung sagt (wie Oprah Winfrey in den 80ern oder 90ern), muss schon mal mit einem jahrelangen Rechtsstreit wegen “Verleumdung”, “geschäftschädigenden Behauptungen” oder “unwahren Aussagen” rechnen – weil an den Hebeln der Macht immer noch jene sitzen, die an Konzernen entweder beteiligt sind, Mitarbeiter waren oder davon profitieren. Das Prinzip lautet: Nicht der Konzern muss nachweisen, dass seine Produkte NICHT schädlich sind – sondern wer auch immer muss nachweisen, DASS sie schädlich sind. So lange dürfen Produkte weiterhin verkauft werden. Dieses Rechtssystem stinkt zum Himmel und mag vielleicht rechtens sein, doch ist es in höchstem Maße illegitim!”Food Inc.” – Was essen wir wirklich? Die Antwort darauf verdirbt womöglich vielen den Appetit, doch gerade in Zeiten von Verhandlungen über ein sogenanntes “transatlantisches Freihandelsabkommen” (TTIP) ist es für ausnahmslos alle Bürger vonnöten, die Antwort zu kennen. Und sich gegen rücksichtslose Geschäftspraktiken zur Wehr zu setzen.FAZIT: Für absolut jeden empfehlenswert, der die Wahrheit aushält. Vor allem aber an diejenigen, die bisher keine klare Meinung dazu hatten: sehen Sie sich diese Dokumentation an und entscheiden Sie dann!
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Cristel –
Da comprare assolutamente!!
Consegna Amazon rapida!Questo dvd dovrebbe essere in ogni casa e ogni tanto guardarlo per ricordarsi cosa stanno facendo le grosse industrie! C’era bisogno di un DVD per capirlo? Sì eccome ! Ho trovato tanta persone che dicono. “se le vendano vuol dire si possono mangiare sennò non le venderebbero”
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Henry –
Se queda corta
Debería comentar de los daños ocultos del codex alimentarium, que han diseñado para darle exclusividad a monsanto de dominar sobre todo el mercado alimenticio mundial.
Dupuy J. –
le grand dégoût
Constater ce que certains Industriels font afin d’augmenter leurs gains et cela, au mépris de toute la planète, terres, humains, animaux etc… serait à démontrer chaque jour, au journal télévisé pour une prise de conscience indispensable pour la vie de DEMAIN! Assez, de reportages sur tous les privilégiés de la PLANETE….. c’est répétitif et fatigant, parlons de l’HUMAIN et de ce que tous les LOBBIES, font de son DROIT DU SOL!….
karenbrat1 –
Really makes you think about where your food comes from
An excellent film that kept us interested all the way through, except I feel too much time was spent on the woman who lost a child and we fast forwarded through some of that. I am sorry for her loss but it just dragged on too long. My skeptical husband since bought the DVD and has been passing it around to friends, who now want me to raise all their chicken and pork for them :-DUnlike PETA films this one does not try to gross you out and make you a vegetarian. There are a few short graphic scenes but rather than try to sicken you, the message they are trying to get across is how a handful of Big Ag companies control over 80% of America’s food supply, and how politically powerful and nearly untouchable these companies are. It all seems very bleak, but at the end you are told how you can get better control of your own food supply… for example raise whatever you can, buy direct from the farmer at the farm or at farmers’ markets, at the very least eat simpler and make as much as possible from scratch and fresh foods rather than buying prepackaged, highly processed foods.One point I would like to make about the chickens is that they are not “forced” to grow unnaturally fast as some reviewers say… they have been BRED to grow that way. I grow the same chickens, Cornish Cross broilers, in my “back yard” (we have 10 acres). Mine spend the first three weeks in the brooder til they are feathered out, and in addition to meat bird starter get hand pulled clover and grass with dirt and roots, as well as all the fine hay bits leftover from feeding other animals. After moving to pasture pens I cut their high-powered Meat Grower feed with 25% plain scratch because in my first batch, before I cut the feed, I did have a few keel over from congestive heart failure from too-rapid growth. They also get moved to fresh grass 2-3x daily. No problems with the next two batches — I ordered 75 chicks and was shipped 79 (a good hatchery always includes a few extras) in those batches and had only 3 die, and those within the first few days, weak ones/shipping stress. I butchered from 6 to 8 weeks of age and while I did not weigh them, visually they were almost all larger than the storebought birds which are usually 3-1/2 to 4 lbs. In fact some were Godzilla chickens, about 8-10 lbs!I love meat and will never be vegetarian unless I am forced to it. Some people will take this movie as a call to vegetarianism. I see it as a reason to buy your food direct from the farmer who grows it, one who allows you to visit the farm personally and see how it is raised. “Organic” simply means the animal was fed organically-grown feed. The animals can still be raised in terrible conditions and their meat labelled “Organic”. “Cage Free” and “Free Range” does not mean the birds are happily running around a pasture… it can mean there are still hundreds or thousands crowded at a square foot per bird into buildings, with all their food,water and shade inside so even if there is one small door to the “free range” outside they are likely not going to use it.I want to know how my meat was raised and how it died and was processed. I am lucky in that I can raise and home butcher my own pork and chicken and buy my beef from a friend who raises her animals the same way I do. Many cities are allowing folks within the city limits to keep chickens, so anyone can now keep their own for eggs or meat. My own town has no regs against livestock at all and I know a man in the middle of town who raised a pig in his back yard last year. He does have a large lot and kept the pen scrupulously clean so the neighbors would not have any complaints about smell. Laying hens and meat birds make a lot less noise than your average dog. Just don’t keep any roosters to avoid annoying the neighbors (with meat birds sex doesn’t matter, they are butchered long before they begin crowing).
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Bibliophile without Borders –
you will never look at food the same way — everyone should see this documentary
The first word that came out of my mouth after watching this documentary was “whoa”, and this film has resonated with me ever since. There is a certain ignorance concerning where our food comes from: we go to a market, buy everything in neat packages and never question the provenance, but we all need to think more about what goes in our mouths. Everything from the extraordinary cruelty in the treatment of pigs on the “kill floor”, to the open holes in cows (I had heard about this and thought it was some horror story, but it is unfortunately true…) to the GMs and the dominance of a few companies in the world who control almost everything your put in your mouth — and it is nothing you really want to ingest in the first place. The dominance of corn in all our products is appalling, and we should never question WHY there is obesity and poor nutrition in the world today. It is also shocking to know that there are actually more incidents of salmonella poisonings etc in the past few years vs any other time in recent history due to the industrial combination of different meats.I highly recommend this film — Because of it, I changed my eating habits, buy vegetables from farmer’s markets and in season, also plant my own tomatoes and some vegetables using heirloom seeds (and yes, you can even grow tomatoes in boxes on an apartment balcony), and dropped my consumption of meat by 80% (and only buy meat from a farmer).
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Enrico –
Food Inc. Documentario sul cibo di oggi
Un documentario che secondo me, trattando sul cibo prodotto al giorno d’oggi, farà passare la fame a parecchi. Da vedere se non si conoscono certe cose inerenti al settore trattato, anche solo per essere informato del livello di inquinamento e pericolosità del cibo fabbricato da allevamenti e aziende che usano chimica pesantemente così come di altre realtà
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Pierre R 77 –
Excellent… de connaitre les belles pratiques de ces sociétés qui s’occupent si bien de nous !
A VOIR ABSOLUMENT : ce film reportage ne peux que vous faire réfléchir à ce que vous mettez dans votre assiette et celles de vos enfants. Même si on ne peux pas forcément changer les méthodes de ces sociétés, il n’en reste pas moins que l’on peut les faire plier à une opinion publique: leur moteur étant l’argent, elles feront toujours en sorte de vendre ce qui s’achète. Il faut donc acheter les bonnes choses pour qu’elles fassent les bon produits !
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virginia –
Excellent movie- should be required in schools
EVERYONE should watch this movie. I got my 4 teenagers to watch it, and after the usual initial complaining, once they got started, they sat through the whole thing. They were dumbfounded. It kept their attention without being “preachy”. I think kids smell baloney when grown-ups are exaggerating or being overly dramatic, it turns them off. This movie does the opposite. I am an MD with an Anti-Aging and Weight Loss practice, so I recommend the movie to my patients all the time. I live in an area where the grocery stores don’t carry grass-fed beef, never mind the butcher shops. This movie inspired me to find sources of good, grass fed meats, and free range chicken, direct from a farm co-op. It shows you the scam behind the labeling in our supermarkets. I believe, as do most doctors in my field, that we are nutritionally depleted and over-fed, not unlike the cows you see in this movie. My patients come in with so many digestive problems, so much inflammation in their own systems, so much stress, so many allergies, they can’t lose weight… they all think it’s somehow their fault. They believe TV commercials. They believe they can eat like their parents did. This movie shows them that our food supply is nothing like it was when we were kids. It shows the way our centralized government and lobbyists control what we eat in a way that would be impossible to do in places like Europe, where there is no one government, and hence, no real lobbying going on that would affect the entire continent. Perhaps this is the real reason why “French Women Don’t Get Fat”. I wish we could get schools to show “Food, Inc.” in their “Health” classes. I doubt it would be considered politically correct, but I feel that middle schoolers would benefit much more from watching this in class, than watching their teacher show them how to put a condom on a banana. My boys still laugh about that. Unbelievable.
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Deborah Feldman –
I was shocked, concerned, and well informed by FOOD, INC. !
I watched a portion of the film “FOOD,INC.” on the Oprah Show. It brought alot of questions out that had been worrying me just below the surface, for a while. Questions like, “why are chicken breasts so big now?”, or “how healthy are the fruits and vegies I’m buying?”, etc. So, I ordered this movie from Amazon.com, hoping to put to rest some of my inner fears; or at least, maybe hear some of the truth of what’s out there. I was shocked,overwhelmed, and saddened by what I saw! I watched this film with my 24 year old daughter, and 26 year old son. We all stared at each other, and uttered things like, “are you kidding me?”! We all talked about it at length after it was over. Concerned that we had no idea what was going on, or how we were participating unknowingly! The next time I went to the grocery store, I was paralyzed with fear of the unknown! I kept thinking, “how am I going to find healthy food to serve my family now? Holy Cow!”This movie is very through, and doesn’t use harsh tactics to get your attention. The subject matter is enough to do that. What it does is show just a good glimpse of what happening in the food production world that has taken over farming as we thought we knew it. American farmers have been taken over by profit hungry corporations. Most humane animal treatment has gone out the window, along with food as God intended it. We are now eating food that has been genetically, antibiotically, and hormonally altered to turn up the profits! I felt really ashamed for not knowing intuitively that something is wrong! America is the fattest nation on earth,so is there a chance that altered food is contributing to it? Things like High Fructose Corn Syrup? Corn fed cows? Really? Please don’t take my word for it, just get this movie, and watch it for yourselves. It is definitely a “MUST SEE TO BELIEVE” experience. Watch with someone who’s health you care about! And for your futures sake, read the labels on everything you buy!
Russell Foster –
Perfect tool for my projects
Broke the other one
Steve R. –
TIRED of YOUR LIFE AS IT IS? HUNGRY FOR DRAMATIC CHANGE? Read This Review!
BUY IT. I also bought FOODMATTERS, HUNGRY FOR CHANGE, FORKS OVER KNIVES, FOOD INC., SUPER SIZE ME, FAT SICK & NEARLY DEAD, GOT THE FACTS ON MILK, and TAPPED.First I cut way, way, way back on sugar (not completely ought though.) I lost about 10 lbs in about 3 weeks. Then I bought a “Hamilton Beach” Big Mouth Pro Juicing Machine. I lost 20 lbs the first week doing the detox method (juicing fresh, almost all organic veggies and a little fruit.) I was not hungry, though I still had some cravings for sweets, steak, etc. It is important to know that I never let myself get hungry. I drank the 16 oz juice 3 times a day for 21 days snacking on cut up fresh veggies when I felt the need. My weight loss stalled a little, then slowly started moving again. It has been 6 weeks now and I currently have lost 40 lbs., went from a 38″ waist to a 34.” My shoes are now laced as tight as they will go and are now slip-ons. I feel & look healthier. I have a better attitude now and my doctor took me off most of my meds. He said over time, I may get off them all.Honestly, you do have to have drive, enthusiasm, and determination. However, you do NOT have to be hungry and want to make sure you are not hungry. Otherwise you trigger a starvation involuntary bodily response to store fat due to the bodily perception of food shortage. This is only one reason why ordinary DIETS DO NOT WORK!Are you tired of your life as it is? Hungry for dramatic change? GET BUSY! I am NOT sorry I decided to change.P.S. – Look at the following Books: “The Juicing Bible” and “The Big Book of Juices.” I found them helpful.
Dennis –
Every American should buy a copy of this DVD
Extremely enlightening. This is information that every food consumer should know.
Shandy J –
EYE OPENER
I have always been a fan of Alternative Media Sources and smaller movie productions. Mainstream Media and Hollywood offer much needed services for the world; however, it’s still refreshing to get the “Little Guys” opinion every once in a while, if for no other reason to ensure we gain a COMPLETE picture of our surroundings. First thing is first, THIS MOVIE IS NOT ABOUT CONSPIRACY THEORIES. Instead, this movie outlines that while bigger companies grow in size and develop ways to feed LARGE amounts of the population at a RESONABLE price point, that inevitably compromises must be made. Unfortunately, as you watch this movie you are made aware of how drastic these Compromises are, and how they affect the Quality and Nutrition of our food supply. It also adds that every time you choose to buy food that is produced for the `MASSES”, that you are in essence “casting your vote of approval”. Conversely, if we choose to buy from local farms and natural/organic food processing plants, we will encourage this behavior. If enough of us make this choice, one day the Big Companies will see a chance to make money and will start investing into more appropriate food practices. Another disturbing fact the movie points out is “the average distance food travels before it gets to our grocery stores”. With the average distance ranging from 1200-1600 miles, that made me wonder what would happen if there were a few “Temporary” disruptions in this food chain. For example, bad weather, high gas prices, trucker strikes, terrorist attacks, ect. It just seems to me that if we continue to rely on the Inefficient System that these Big Food processors use to feed us, we are setting ourselves up for failure. I would rather spend MORE MONEY NOW and ensure a healthier existence than spend MORE MONEY LATER for medications and hospitals bills from the poor quality of food that I ate while I was young!
R. Seehoffer –
Excellent, and Disturbing, Movie
I got this a few years ago when the movie was making the rounds at the theaters and I missed it there. I just realized I hadn’t reviewed it, and thought it might be of value. I will say in all honesty that if you are a die-hard cow/chicken/pig eater with a, “ain’t nobody gonna tell me different!” mindset, no offense but just move on. I say that because you won’t like what you see if you sit through this movie. It will disturb you, perhaps gross you out, and you will likely think that you wasted your money. But, if you are having doubts and concerns about what the big industrial food production machine is dumping down your gullet… if your health is suffering for no apparent reason and your weight is out of control, watch this, preferably more than once, and then tell me you’re not affected. This movie does not necessarily advocate a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle, but it does expose many of the hazards and–to be blunt–outright atrocities committed on other living things in the name of efficiency and price point and ‘consumer demand’. Personally, it changed the way I eat, the way I view food and decide what to put in my mouth. It changed where I go out to eat and what I order when I get there. The movie motivated me to drop 30 pounds and generally focus on my health and who I give my money to. And it genuinely scared me when I learned the scale and tactics used by those who would prefer that I maintain the status quo and keep my mouth shut. It’s a good movie, well made, and I do recommend it. ‘Nuff said…
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TeddyH –
Yikes!
This will change your life! For most Americans, the ideal meal is fast, cheap, and tasty. Food, Inc. examines the costs of putting value and convenience over nutrition and environmental impact. Director Robert Kenner explores the subject from all angles, talking to authors, advocates, farmers, and CEOs, like co-producer Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma), Gary Hirschberg (Stonyfield Farms), and Barbara Kowalcyk, who’s been lobbying for more rigorous standards since E. coli claimed the life of her two-year-old son. The filmmaker takes his camera into slaughterhouses and factory farms where chickens grow too fast to walk properly, cows eat feed pumped with toxic chemicals, and illegal immigrants risk life and limb to bring these products to market at an affordable cost. If eco-docs tends to preach to the converted, Kenner presents his findings in such an engaging fashion that Food, Inc. may well reach the very viewers who could benefit from it the most: harried workers who don’t have the time or income to read every book and eat non-genetically modified produce every day. Though he covers some of the same ground as Super-Size Me and King Corn, Food Inc. presents a broader picture of the problem, and if Kenner takes an understandably tough stance on particular politicians and corporations, he’s just as quick to praise those who are trying to be responsible–even Wal-Mart, which now carries organic products. That development may have more to do with economics than empathy, but the consumer still benefits, and every little bit counts. –Kathleen C. Fennessy
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mewayah –
Is “Soylent Green” our future ??
Holy Cow! I’ve watched this movie last night and I am still in shock.I didn’t order the dvd, I watched it online so I won’t review the item or shipping, but the movie itself is very informative and scary at the same time.One reviewer complained about the fact there was no scientific experts. Well, knowing that the FDA had among its members ex-employees from Monsanto or other Companies (who returned working for them), I wouldn’t fully trust the experts, unless they are independent, which won’t really happen. How independent or free are we? We cannot even know if we’re eating meat from cloned animals because the Big Companies don’t want to “scare” people? We cannot have all the information to make our decision. We cannot even say “I won’t eat this or that” because the Food Companies can sue anybody because it hurts their business? And what about our health ??How is soda cheaper than water? How is a burger cheaper than ONE red bell pepper? (hamburger 1$, 1 red bell pepper $1.89 in Houston, and it’s not even organic!?).Where do these E.Coli outbreaks come from? How come cows don’t even eat grass anymore? How come the FDA is powerless and cannot event close down a “factory” which had E.coli contamination? Why? why? why?Almost 2 years ago, we watched “the world according to Monsanto” and I was disgusted by their way of doing business, hurting financially the farmers, changing our food, the official regulations etc… and so we made some personal changes.After watching “Food Inc”, I won’t turn vegetarian or “hippie” but for sure, I’ll pay even more attention to what we eat and how the food is produced. I hope the American People will wake up and fight for the right to have better food and better information, otherwise, I am afraid the next step might be “soylent green”…
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William T. Gilbert III –
tells about the inside work in the industry
tells about working in the industry. good to have an outlet that tells it like it is, to work in the industry. of course I am sure there are some plants that don’t want any one to see what goes on in there. some of which make a good product, but need treat their workers much better, as is the case in a lot of work places. now there are some good places to work also. too bad the bad news places make it look bad for the industry.
Dorothea –
A must see but difficult to watch film.
This film shows the disgusting method of meat production employed in the USA which involves heavily the use of growth hormone and the routine abuse of animals. It is a difficult film to watch but it is what we sponsor if we always pick the cheapest option on the supermarket shelves. We arein a critical time when our own farmers have been assailed by cheap imports without animal welfare being an issue. I am sending a copy of this film to Mr Gove in the New Year because he has been given the guardianship of our environment during Brexit. Lets hope with some common sense and with the renewed vigour that Brexit may afford us we can decide to make that change and put animals welfare firmly back into our food production methods and put proper safe food on the table for our young folk.
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Angelarae –
Watch this video, then buy local & contact your congressmen!
I was aware that our food industry is leading us down the path to disaster, but I didn’t know how bad it was. I’ve read things in books, but when you see it on the camera it makes it so much more real.This movie touches on many problems in our food industry. For example, genetically modified foods, how we may end up eating cloned animal meat if we don’t speak up to congress and the FDA, how there are only a few companies controlling most of the food industry and how that power and money are influencing our government and railroading farmers, and of course, how inhumane these animals, and the workers who process them, are treated.The most eye-opening things for me were: 1)if you feed cows grass for 5 days, they’ll clean themselves of 80% of ecoli bacteria, but instead of doing that, industries “cleanse” our meat with AMMONIA, 2)policy makers and judges are not in bed with these corporations, they come straight from these companies to these very important political positions, 3)the USDA no longer has the power to shut down factories who repeatedly have tainted facilities, 4) corporations can now patent life and therefore can sue others for using/reusing their “seeds,” and will take farmers who don’t use their seeds to court accusing them of this crime just to send a message, and/or to put this farmer out of business and in process these lawyer/companies are able to obtain EVERY BANK TRANSACTION that farmer has made in the past 10 years (I imagine the companies then go after the people with whom the poor farmer/seed cleaner has been in business).What I found disappointing was the lack of information in this video, but it is a movie, not a mini-series. As I said, “it touches” on these different issues, but there’s much more to know – I guess the watcher should be smart enough to do more research and read some books. I would’ve like have seen in this video, “why is corn so harmful to digest by animals AND humans? how can the stress these animals are in, especially before the slaughter, affect us? what happens to these small organic companies who get bought out by corporations but keep their “organic” identity? how exactly does a food become “genetically modified” and what may be the consequences to our health? how close are we (or are we already there) to having our food come from cloned animals? what other ways is the farmer, who’s grass-feeding his beef, helping the environment/ecosystem? are other countries running their food industry in the same way as us or does the US already control them too? how did Oprah win the fight against these monster food lawyers?If nothing else, after seeing this video, I want to do MORE than just buy local and/or organic, I want to speak up and speak out against these monopolies and the politicians who support them – why aren’t they considered monopolies!?! I like cheap stuff, predictability, and consistency just as much as the next person, but people have to use their head and ask, “at what cost?” In this case, the cost is great – it’s not just the environment, the animals, or our kids future, it’s OUR LIVES at stake too – and that should appeal to even the most selfish individual.
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MakFavs –
Congress should be required to watch FOOD, INC and protect us
Elected US lawmakers (Senators+Representatives in Congress) and elected state+local lawmakers permit those chemicals added to what is called “food” but are harmful to your brain, your endocrine and reproductive systems, and they overwork your blood, liver, kidneys, bladder, and your omentum where the harmful belly fat factory resides that is active or inactive based on what you eat and drink. Damaged systems are not able to keep you healthy. Most of our “flavors”, “sweeteners” and “colors” are from chemical companies that pay big bucks for favors from Republicans and Democrats that they help get elected. Many of our chemical “ingredients” are banned in the European Union countries and many others. This is a clue as to why so many countries do not have our high ratio of children and adult problems with weight, allergies, learning, behaviors, criminal activity and other brain/body issues. Please sign the petition below and share it over and over. I don’t know if links transfer properly so copy/paste and change the “dot”.[…][…]When such services receive any government money (federal, state, local), our tax dollars pay for all or part of the cost of meals for students, hospital patients, soup kitchens, child & adult day care, assisted living, and such. Therefore, FOOD,INC and Jaime Oliver’s Food Revolution should be required viewing for: everyone in the food source to consumer chain; and every parent and student grade 4 to post-graduate and in skills training; plus those in government jobs paid directly with public monies (our taxes); and those paid indirectly by a private employer receiving public monies (especially the various education, health and human services). Those that we depend on must have the knowledge to make informed decisions that do not harm us, especially for our children, vulnerable adults and the uninformed. Food Stamps and meal plans must be moved from Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Department of Health and Human Services. In 400 BC, Hippocrates, the father of medicine said, “Let food be thy medicine and let medicine be thy food”.We need to be a healthy nation again in our persons and our politics. We must end the Republican/Democrat/ Corporate Monopoly. Never vote to reelect or retain anyone. (It’s ok if any President/CEO is great). Reelection to Congress violates our US Constitution. Read it. I bet your State Constitution doesn’t have any reelection provisions either. …”for a term of ___ years” and “their successors” means they may not succeed/follow themselves and are never to hold that position again. Only the President may do it twice in their life. Vice-President may not. “Running Mate/VP Candidate” is also unconstitutional. I bet your state primary elections also allow only votes for Republicans and Democrats. Let’s restore our Founder’s coalition government. So in November general elections vote only for persons that won’t accept money from and were never in the Republican/Democrat/Corporate Monopoly. Send the message: we want only true civil servants who work to protect and benefit us then return to private life. Never complain if you vote to reelect/retain again. That revolving door goes to-from-to-from huge corporate paychecks. Repeat often, “If change is to be, it starts with me.” Thank you for reading this.
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G. Snyder –
a must-see for every American
This video was so thought provoking. So few of us have a good idea where our food comes from or how it was produced. Most of our nutrition education is limited to TV commercials selling us “healthy” fast food or “natural” factory-farmed fat-filled meat products. And then we wonder why America is the fattest country in the world. It’s true that about 1 in 3 American kids born today will end up with Diabetes Type 2 at some point. DM Type 2 isn’t just something annoying that prevents you from eating cookies: it’s a terrible disease, a top cause of blindness & amputations, and a very high risk for cardiovascular/HTN problems. Just like the family in the video illustrated DM Type 2 is very costly to control. Their medications were “hundreds” of dollars a month. Yet they continue to eat fast-food at most meals. What they don’t understand is that $200-$300 a month goes a long way into buying healthy food choices. Food can be prepared in advance, then frozen, so time is no excuse. People just aren’t educated on what not to eat. And when the only ads we see are from big agri-business, no wonder we’re confused?I am deeply troubled by the increasing food industry power. They’ve already taken away 1st Amendment rights: it’s now illegal to openly discuss food production/industry topics (even if they’re TRUE), if the discussion hurts the corporation’s sales figures. How is this even constitutional? This is the same government who has cut USDA inspections down to a fraction of what they were decades ago, even though population and food intake only goes up.I also am troubled that in light of the role of lifestyle in health, that nobody is talking about diet during our current healthcare debates. Why didn’t part of the new Health Care bill touch on things brought up in this movie? And why are my tax dollars being used to provide feed corn to feedlots at below market cost? Corn has been so cheap that people are even burning it to heat their homes (corn stoves). How about we stop wasting tax money on corn and if we want to subsidize something that counts, we use it only for healthy food choices such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, foods free of HFCS, non-factory-farmed animal products, etc.The movie is interesting. I think if you buy it for your whole family to watch, you won’t get bored. It is thought provoking. I first watched it on Netflix and it was so good, I ordered a copy from Amazon to share with my friends. People need to know this stuff. It’s true: you are what you eat.
J. Hoover –
Excellent Documentary. Very happy I finally watched it.
I heard of “Food, Inc.” five years ago when Michael Pollan was on Oprah. I started eating more organic just from the information shown on the program. Now, five years later, I have now recently transitioned my diet to a vegan diet. I’ve been eating a whole-food plant-based diet for the last 3 months and feel so much healthier. I have chosen to eat this way primarily for health reasons, but also out of fear of GMO’s. Knowing that our farm animals are fed a diet rich of GMO corn and we are what we eat, I have become concerned of what eating animals fed a GMO diet will have on our health. As I was browsing the health documentaries on Amazon, I stumbled across this DVD. I remembered seeing it on Oprah and wondered why I had never bought it. I think a few negative reviews had turned me away. I’m glad I finally made the decision to purchase it and watch it. The film reinforced my belief about food. Food should be natural, real, the way our grandparents and ancestors ate. Without chemicals, and genetic modifications. This film gave me another reason to eat an organic plant-based diet, your risk of getting E-coli is greatly decreased. The movie really made me think. Most of us take for granted how important food is to us. We all know we need it for life, but most of us never think about what we are actually eating and how eating something can effect our health for years to come. Or even cause death in a few days. I don’t want to feed my kids burgers unless it’s one I made at home using grass-fed meat. I’m not paranoid, just aware and cautious and this film gave me reason to be.In summary, I enjoyed it. I’m going to share it with my friends and family. It was well-made and very informative. It was entertaining. I think it’s important for everyone to know what America’s food industry is really doing. I was very happy to see them make many mentions of Monsanto, a company I already didn’t trust. You do have a choice. You choose what you eat 3 times a day. Buy Local. Buy Organic. It’s that simple.
Laura Ann Robertson –
Must see.
I just got my copy yesterday and watched it last night. Everyone needs to watch this dvd. It is a great review of what has happened to our food supply and our treatment of the animals and farmers who used to be the backbone of the country. This dvd is an education we all need to have.Thank goodness I grew up on a farm/ranch where the animals were all treated humanly, fed what they were meant to eat and prepared for food with care and cleanness and no one ever got ecoli. Our animals were all well fed with the things God intended them to eat and kept in clean open spaces. Our hens sang as they laid their eggs and as they went about their day.I was sick as I saw what people who only care about money have done to us. They make me want to be a vegetarian or at least go totally organic or buy from a local farmer where I can see the conditions they are kept under.My husband worked for a rancher who kept a pig confinement.After he would go in and tend the pigs there was no way you could be around him because of the stink even after a shower and change of clothes. We got a different job as soon as we could find one. The pigs however spent their whole lives in that stink.My nephew worked at a feedlot for cattle in Nebraska. When he would come in the house for supper even after a change of clothes and a shower you could not sit by him and eat supper because of the stink. The cows however were in that until the day they went to slaughter, up to their knees.In this dvd I saw how the chicken confinement sheds are too. What a disgrace and a crime against God’s creatures.THen at the last to show how Monsanto has sued and broken the farmers who tried to keep our food supply clean and our corn and soybeans safe to eat.In what we think is the greatest country in the world the corruption and graft is inexcusable. We have allowed the big companies to poison us and our children and put God’s creatures though untold suffering.You must see this dvd if you care about your self, your family and the helpless creatures they torture to death.God bless Eric Schlosser and the people who made this dvd to make us aware of what is happening.
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Wanda McKolskey –
To Educate Yourself about What you eat is to Empower Yourself
It’s very scary to know about some of the results the government don’t want you to know about genetically modified foods… mold in the blood caused by seedless grapes & watermelon. There is a microscope that magnifies the blood 16,000x its size. Of course the general health industry doesn’t use it nor will the government allow them to have it because of what you may find in your blood stream caused by eating GMF.There’s been a couple of test done using McDonald’s meat & french fries. You know that food when left out will usually mold and rot. Apparently somebody kept a McDonald’s quarter pounder and french fries for over 3 years in a metal lunch box. The results… the fries look the same as it did when it left the fryer and the hamburger didn’t change at all. The meat may have shrunk just a little and the bread became slightly brittle and crumbled when handled. “What is McDonald feeding our children?” asked the producer of that film. I can’t prove if what she says is true or not, however I left some fries in my car for several months and the fries never molded. It was still greasy and salty but not a speck of mold on it. You can view this by going to […] and search under McDonald.I personally will not eat meat anymore after watching Food Inc. I was slowly moving in this direction anyway, however after viewing Food Inc. it made the process much easier. Should I ever fall off the wagon, I will only eat cattle fed on grains or classified as organic. I will only buy locally grown foods or grow my own and buy organic if at all possible. I will pay extra to ensure I know what is going into my body.If you believe our government has our best interest, think again. They’ve poisoned our water, shove chemicals into our bodies by promoting drugs (treat the symptoms, not find the cure), force vaccines onto our children which I truly believe is the route to all our major illnesses today, allow chemicals into our food, knowing it’s harmful effects, and made sure they will not be held responsible by passing laws in their favor. Big corporation, UGH!!!!!!If you don’t watch out for your children or yourself, who will? Certainly not our government.
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Bookish Brunette –
Viewed Tonight
This documentary was fantastic. Are there better ones out there on this subject? Sure. “The Future of Food” was particularly good, but “Food, Inc.” is a film a larger audience can relate to. That’s my opinion anyway. I’m seriously thinking of sending copies of this film as a holiday gift to friends. I understand the blight of the chicken house industry that was once vibrant in parts of the South and have heard personal stories of people going in serious debt as a result. Up here living in the Midwest, corn and corn-fed beef (and ethanol) are all the rage. News of raids and deportation of immigrant workers in Postville, Iowa, doesn’t arouse as much public concern as one might hope. Though people in this state do celebrate farmers’ markets and have fabulous locally-grown produce. Interesting to behold the organic movement catching on right in America’s Heartland where much of the corn is grown. I hope it catches on more in the future and we can break our dependence on the failing food system we have now.I learned of Polyface Farm years back and wish we had access to their products out this way, but understand that violates their principle of keeping it local. The Polyface Inc. website lists restaurants where their products are used and “metropolitan buying clubs” for interested consumers in Virginia and Maryland. That’s really nice how they have their sustainable farming business running, and I’d love for us to protect the few smaller family farms we have left out this way. Organic farming is such a good idea.Monsanto is the closest thing to pure evil I’ve yet to confront. Wow. The more I learn about them, the more shocked I am that people haven’t sounded alarms sooner. Aside from creating Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, they now provide a variant on RoundUp Ultra for our U.S. drug policy aerial fumigation campaign in Colombia, which is causing a humanitarian crisis in case anyone didn’t know. Monsanto is also behind the global “boom” in golf courses, which rely on their lawncare products. Read up on biological patents and Monsanto and see how many patents they have accumulated. This is a company we seriously need to avoid from here on out, even if that means accepting a few weeds from time to time, mmmmk? Scary bad, Monsanto is.Great film that I’d recommend to my friends. 🙂
FAITHHEALING –
Safe Your Life and the Environment!
I cannot believe the practices that are outlined in this movie. How sad is it that WE as Americans trusted the FDA to do the right thing regarding our health, only to find out that AGAIN capitalism is more important than the health of the citizens of the United States of America. I’m appauled and pissed off that this has been swept under the rug. Not only are we suffering, our children are suffering, and dis-eases as being allowed to proliferate and kill individuals every day as a result of the processing that is taking place!Watching the Oprah Show may have saved my life and members of my families life, it’s that simple! This FOOD SYSTEM is killing you! Do yourself and YOUR FAMILY a favor and start shopping local. Find local vendors and use them and stop buying and feeding your family the crap that they so arrogantly put on the market! I know many people who have illnesses that have become RAMPANT since this processing started, going green has changed their LIFE AND THEIR HEALTH! Think about all of the chemicals that they are using to process those meats, and the fact that you are ingesting those chemicals, and the fact that you have allergies, and the fact that you have hormonal imbalances, and the fact that you have no energy, and the fact that you have CANDIDA, and the fact that your child has a learning disability, and the fact that your hair is falling out, and the fact that your child can’t control their temper, and the fact that you have fibro, ADHD, lyme disease, thyroid disorders, mental illness, constipation, gerd, etc. That list is long and while the doctors will be happy to provide you with a prescription, the prescription that will cost you a little bit more on the front end but HAS NO SIDE EFFECTS, is ORGANIC FOODS! Save your life today AND VOTE WITH YOUR POCKETBOOK, THREE TIMES A DAY!!!YES, this prescription will take you more time, YES this prescription means that you have to cook EVERYTHING, yes it will get you closer to your family, YES, YES, YES, but in the long run you’ll feel better so you can exercise and feel good about it and have more energy to spend with your family!:)
John Smith –
“You are what you eat”
Food INC. is an informative and educational examination of America’s food and agricultural industries. There are but a small handful of corporate farms who grow or raise our food that you find in just about every chain grocery store and market stretching from cost to coast. As incredible of a feat as it may appear, “peer through the veil” as it is stated in the documentary. Our food is controlled by these very large, multi billion dollar industries and what you see isn’t necessarily what you get. From raising genetically modified live stock fed on all corn GMO diets and fed/injected with antibiotics and growth hormones to the GMO Monsanto corn and soy beans that are grown and used in virtually EVERYTHING the average American consumes. After getting this small bit of information….you will be scared (or at least very, very weary) of shopping at your local grocery store or market. Food Inc. is an educational study of awareness made available to the average consumer, “this is what is in your food, this is what you are eating, and these are the people who are feeding it to you and getting RICH off of you and your dwindling health”. It just doesn’t stop there, the economic costs of corporate America controlling America’s food also has its costs. Neighboring countries and countries of trade suffer as smaller family farms can’t compete with the production of what these corporate farms can crank out and thus “go out of business”.People’s very livelihood comes to an end and migrant workers who are urged to come to America (often as undocumented workers) work virtually as slaves and then thrown to the wolves when it suites the company. You and I all “pay for that” and it is a vicious, repeating circle that seems to have no end. I urge anyone to see this documentary and you will think twice about the food you eat and what you buy. You will be asking yourself who it is really benefitting, and I guarantee you…”It isn’t you or your family”.
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