FOOD, Inc........ MUST SEE!!!

[Wifezilla]

Watched it yesterday. Anyone else notice how much the poultry houses resembled the old share cropping system?

 

[Sillystunt]

Martha Stewart's show is about this today. She has had Joel on and some farmers. The farmer had the cutest chicken tie on. Tooo cute~

 

[Egg_newton]

I haven't watched it yet. But I owe a HUGE thank you to my boyfriend for moving me out to the country where I have the space and time to have more control over what I'm putting into my mouth. Between all the homegrown meat, produce, and homemade bread we have for ourselves and family I feel healthier and more independent.

 

[Chickenmaven]

I liked it, very much. It wasn't depressing; it actually inspired by kids to consider some of my suggestions (like eating less meat).

 

[Wifezilla]

Actually that is the one area where I do not agree with the movie. Even Pollan himself had agreed in an email with a low carber that meat was better for people. He just could not envision how we could feed enough people. Joel Salatin and him disagree on this point. The belief that we can't feed people meat in a sustainable way is wrong. No doubt an idea that Monsanto loves to promote.

Humans evolved to eat meat and healthy, natural fats. The fact that we can eat other things doesn't not make them the ideal food source. We get all nutrients we need with the exception of ONE from meat. The exception is vitamin C, but meat has 2 vitamin C precursors. The fewer grains, starches and sugars you eat, the less vitamin C you need.

 

[MaggieRae]

I need to see it, but don't know where to get a hold of it. I already bought the book. I just started it.

 

[TipsyDog]

Quote:
I ordered it from Walmart.com (no shipping costs). Mine should be here in the next couple of days.

 

[Wifezilla]

My cable company had it on pay-per-view.

Here is the comment Pollan made to a read who wrote in to him...

"I agree, the public health message demonizing meat has been overblown, but I also think the meat available to most Americans is not health food. If we could all eat traditional meat --grass fed-- it would be a different matter, but we can't. There are also serious environmental and justice issues with eating the grain fed meat available to most Americans. And you can't go wrong eating lots of plants.
So that was my thinking. Feel free to disagree.
Thanks for taking the trouble to write."
http://forum.lowcarber.org/showpost.php?p=7905286&postcount=54

 

[HLAC]

I'm a low carber. Lost 80lbs and feel much better.

I also try to eat mostly free-range, no-artificial hormones, no antibiotics added, meat. (deer mostly) Tomorrow, I go 'shopping' with the shotgun, otherwise I'm shopping with the bow.

Anyhow, in a way we want it both ways. We want to be able to buy non-pastuerized milk... but when somebody gets sick on it, we cry out for tighter regulations. The regulations are so strict about slaughtering animals that almost none of us could offer processed chickens for sale. Heck the regulations for selling food at a farmer's type market are bad enough.

I haven't seen this movie but I'll look for it. I hope the message is more 'make informed purchase or grow your own' vs. 'we need more regulations'.

 

[Wifezilla]

It isn't a "pro regulation" movie really. There is one section dealing with ecolli that points out how toothless regulations can be though. It is more like "know what you are really getting" kind of movie. You will find the Joel Salatin portions very inspiring.