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Cyrus is Sobered into Reconsidering Tonight's Dinner by "Food, Inc"
I was prepared, going into this 2009 documentary, to be lectured on about the evils of ‘frankenfood’ a term the organic foods industry likes to toss around in such a general sense, that it actually causes harm. Take for instance, the wide-spread famine in Zambia when their leaders were erroneously convinced to refuse the genetically modified corn offered by the UN World Food Programme. That being said, “Food, Inc” tries its best to be more than just propaganda for one point of view, an effort hampered by the refusal to be involved by ANY of the major food corporations the film looks at.
This rather disturbing and enlightening doc is divided into three sections. The first is the familiar look at industrial meat production, not really going anywhere new but reminding us all how horrid the conditions are for these animals. The second part is about corn and soy bean over-production and how this is causing health problems in ways you wouldn’t suspect and will likely scare you into shopping with considerably more care. The real kicker though is part three which deals with the way the large food companies wield their power, in a downright evil fashion, intentionally stomping on the small farmers through means that plain do not allow for the healthy competition that is supposed to be why Capitalism works. Much like Michael Moore’s recent film, “Food, Inc” presents a view of this corporate structure as unsustainable to any one with even an iota of a moral compass.
“Food, Inc” took me by surprise, making its points convincingly which are also backed up by the extras on the disc, most notably an NBC “Dateline” story focusing on organic farmers. I’m not ready to give up my way of shopping entirely yet, and I feel that even with the lack of involvement of the major companies, the film could have tried a bit harder to present alternate viewpoints, but theirs is one that definitely needs to be heard. This is a BUY.
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Comment by Nick on November 19, 2009 at 10:39pm -
They recently showed this film on my campus (Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania) and it really did change the way I looked at my food. (Those fuckers just HAD to show it two weeks before Thanksgiving) Even with the meat industry, the way we biologically manipulate these animals to grow so much faster than they were ever intended to so that they can barely move, or feeding cows food that their stomachs just aren't designed to eat to make them grow so much faster really makes you not want to give these cocksuckers your hard-earned money. But that was just the appetizer (BA-DUM, PSHH!) The sections on the corn and the food companies are by far the most thought-provoking.
Although the meat segment does make me want to go hunting. Ahh, sweet, chemical free lean wild meat, harvested from an animal that lived free and happy as an animal can be until its life came to a quick and painless end. Healthy, humane, delicious. I'm gonna go sight in my rifle and look for local organic farms (because you can't hunt cows or chickens).
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Comment by MisterKeitel on November 19, 2009 at 9:51am -
Yes. I heard about the Monsanto seed copyright problem on a story from NPR.com. There was this small time farmer who made part of his living by breeding seed strains and selling them. But he had the bad luck of having his fields parked right next to a farmer who used Monsanto genentically manipulated seeds (which the company holds a legal copyright on.) So, because of their close proximity, the two strains of seeds (the small farmer's and the big company's) traded genetic information. So, some of the Monsanto traits started showing up in the small time farmer's seeds. This resulted in Monsanto being able to sue the small guy for copyright infringement.
It kind of reminds me of Michael Criton's novel NeXt where big companies hold patients on human DNA codes and when a guy starts showing some amazing resistance to disease and recuperative powers, this big company claimed that they "owned" his DNA and got the legal right to track this guy down and "harvest" his DNA. So, the guy goes on the run and it becomes a chase story.
Scary.
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Comment by Cyrus on November 18, 2009 at 11:45pm
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Kristin: They most certainly do, Monsanto and their outrageous copyrights on seeds. Amazing levels of bullshit.
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