I recently posted the following on my Facebook page . . . .
I was surprised to see the documentary FOOD, INC. available to view on Vimeo (free). If you haven’t seen it, I hope you will. It’s not a feel-good movie, but it’s important. How about this weekend?
Things can’t change for the better without strong consumer demand for improvements. This isn’t just about treatment of farm animals or vegetarianism; its focus is much broader—a subject that is fraught with deception.
Hiding our heads in the sand makes us complicit in hurting ourselves, our children & grandchildren, fellow human beings, sentient animals, and our planet. Watching this documentary is a good start, since knowledge is power.
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Here’s the description of the film from the Food Inc. website (http://www.takepart.com/foodinc/film):
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has 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.
Here is the link to the video on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/23607359
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