Just watched Food, inc.!!!

[Damummis]

Watched it a little while ago. I don't have a TV. I watched it here

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/food-inc/

 

[jasonponce]

If you have netflix you can watch it instantly/streaming. We started watching it last night and will finish it today. It is really sad to see how the animals are treated!

 

[Buck Creek Chickens]

because of that movie, a lady that buys eggs for me now wants broilers too. i have not watched it but have heard alot about it. I started to get all my meat from a local farmer or grow it myself a few years ago, more because of what those large company's are injecting into the meat they produce. I'm all so switching to get ride of as much processed food as I can including margarine. No more fax food

 

[ZooNana]

I was quite aware of the atrocities of meat production in this country before I watched the movie, but the information about high fructose corn syrup (which we had already avoided buying) and the Monsanto soybeans really threw me for a loop. Oh and the ammonia washed beef was just gross

 

[CityChicker]

If you want to see more about Monsanto, you should really see, "The Future of Food". I was recently reading the stories about those well known Monsanto lawsuits and it is really difficult to discern the truth. It may be one of those situation where there are two sides to every story and then there is the truth which is neither. Who knows. There are so many things as a company they are doing that I have a real issue with, but you just never know what the truth of some of it is. There are so many other reasons, for me personally, though to support sustainable agriculture and avoid factory farming anyway. Food, Inc. was a good film, but there was not a lot of new information. It is definitely a good film if a person hasn't seen any of the other related films nor been exposed much to commercial agriculture, but for me, there was nothing really surprising.

 

[kstaven]

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Yes I saw the film. When I say more positive, I mean going beyond the scope of small family farm and showing more of how a mega-industry out of control could learn some lessons and utilize better practice to produce a better/safer product for the masses and allow producers to actually produce again. Reality is, that they could IF they HAD TO. At this point in history there is no will to do so by many, and they pull the bankruptcy card or the price would skyrocket card when the subject is raised. This is a crock of ______. I here it in agriculture circles all the time and can prove it wrong from our own operation and other large producers who have stepped away from the system. In my opinion the garbage the quota boards spew to the producer and the public would get most businesses sued for false and misleading statements. The oppression and control of these mega-corp controlled boards has pushed many to the point of suicide in the last fews year. The most recent a dairyman who shot his herd and then turned the gun on himself. If we ever want a true strong economy again that restrictive leash put on our producers has to be broken.