Food Inc. pulls back the veil

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JULY 10, 2009 8:40AM

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Food Inc.

“The way we eat has changed more in the past fifty years than in the previous ten thousand.”

That’s an astonishing statement, but Robert Kenner’s Food Inc. does a good job of making that charge stick. Most of us here in the overdeveloped world have no idea where our food really comes from, and wealthy and powerful interests are determined that it stays that way.

The packaging on the food we buy in the supermarket bears images of bucolic bliss, of sturdy clapboard barns and cows grazing peacefully in idyllic pastures. Food Inc. pulls back the veil and shows us where our food really comes from...

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eric schlosser, michael pollan, hemorrhagic e. coli, factory farming, monsanto, pastured chicken, type ii diabetes, high-fructose corn syrup, nutritional-industrial complex

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the way i eat is reflective of the economy.

Chuck A. Stetson

July 10, 2009 09:24 AM

We've been trying to eat less factory farmed meat, and fast food is an extremely rare thing for us anymore. It's difficult to break the cycle as it's so ingrained in the culture and so convenient, but it's possible if one tries. Sometimes local meat from smaller farms is cheaper or costs the same as what gets trucked in, it's just a matter of looking for it (and least in my area, I know cities will be different).

Alicia PhD

July 10, 2009 06:04 PM

I'm trying to buy more locally grown food to keep away from the problems described in Food, Inc. but my God it's hard. Then there's things like Whole Foods which often cannot guarantee that their food is truly organic or of better quality than anywhere else. At least I live in an area where going into farm shares is a possibility. In the meantime, a tight budget tends to mean eating more of the wrong things.