Food, Inc.

[hikerchick]

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All the more reason to gather all the information that you can so that you can make an informed decision. Find some information that shows the good side of factory farming - I would love to see it.

My point is that not all food is produced how most of those films/shows would have you believe. I'm directly involved with agriculture...that's how we make our living and I get tired of certain groups trying to make us all out to be evil people who don't treat their animals well. I know very well there are things that go on that shouldn't, but that is not all of us.

I don't think farmers are the problem. I think they are the victims of agribusiness more than anything else. I stopped eating meat because I couldn't be sure of how it was being produced. I don't want to support factory farming. I have nothing against traditional farmers who are still trying to make a living. I support my local farmer by owner a share in Community Suported Agriculture.

 

[saddina]

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If it is not in theaters yet it won't be available on Netflix, I don't think.

One of the wonderful things about netflix is you can reserve a copy before it hits theaters, useful if I want to see a movie that's not rated G.

http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Food_I...349967580_0_0&strackid=75b392097e84d5de_0_srl

 

[hikerchick]

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If it is not in theaters yet it won't be available on Netflix, I don't think.

One of the wonderful things about netflix is you can reserve a copy before it hits theaters, useful if I want to see a movie that's not rated G.

thanks, I didn't know that.

 

[saddina]

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One of the wonderful things about netflix is you can reserve a copy before it hits theaters, useful if I want to see a movie that's not rated G.

thanks, I didn't know that.

No worries it's one of my favorite features, that way we can grab an action flick without needing to find a babysitter, etc.

 

[PotterWatch]

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Amen to that! Big business has forced farmers into producing food (not just animals), in ways that are often unsustainable. I think that a majority of America just doesn't realize it yet. This film is out at a nearby theatre and I do plan on seeing it.

 

[ecocheapomom]

I heard about this movie a few months back from my neighbor (a fellow keeper of chickens) and have been anxious to see it. Here is a link to a list of release dates and theatres where it is playing.

http://www.magpictures.com/dates.aspx?id=3e3938d1-b785-4286-9ae0-8eb5952f1480

 

[michickenwrangler]

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Robert Kenner! That's who it was.

For the debate about what farmer does what, it all depends. Where I live, there is a lot of dairying. A few miles south of town is a large farm where the cows graze on idyllic pastures and the milk is sold to Horizon as organic. A few miles north of town there is another one where the cows are in a small lot in mud and manure all day long. A friend of mine lives on a dairy farm where the cows graze on HUGE pastures but for some reason the milk is not certified as organic. It get solds to a dairy in Bay City for just regular milk products. But they have happy cows nonetheless. I've been there and if I knew all dairy farms were like that, I would gladly drink cheap milk.

They showed a short clip of "Food, Inc." on the Daily Show of a farmer (I think in Iowa or Missouri) who spent $400,000 to avoid a take over from Mazola and still lost.

 

[thebritt]

I saw that episode as well - and I'll be SURE to watch the movie. I don't know any more about the movie than what I've seen in the clip, but I Truly believe that the average non-farming city-type person could use some education about the whole "food chain" thing!

 

[Rillion]

I'm planning to go see the film tomorrow, actually-- will let you know!

 

[Lady Henevere]

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Now that I've read some of this book, I have to qualify the statement above. In his essay, Robert Kenner (the director of the film) says he wanted to make a movie that told all sides of the story, and he set out to do that. But over and over, the big companies refused to speak about anything in-depth (they would make surface-level comments but nothing more), and they refused to allow the filmmakers to film their food operations, etc. Even worse, the filmmakers found that the industrial companies have a practice of intimidating those who try to share that kind of information with the outside world (for example, a team of Tyson people showing up at a farm that contracts with Tyson and "suggesting" to the farmer that he not allow filming to continue; the victim of food contamination being afraid to speak because she could be sued (apparently looser libel laws allow food companies to sue easily--think Oprah and the beef industry. So much for free speech.)). So it's not that the film is anti-industrial food necessarily, but the film does not tell the food industry's side of the story because that side refused to tell their part of the story.