Food Inc.

gethealthyincali

Not to be a downer or anything for you all up North but there were cases of listeria, salmonella, food tampering, food with unusual objects (like metal) and lots of cases where uhndeclared foods (such as peanuts etc) were in Canadian foods. Sorry about that but I think you all have to be diligent also.

greengold

Good film - with some really hard to watch moments. We are fortunate to live in the country where we can raise our own pork, beef and organic veggies (for at least 3/4 of the year - ahve to buy some in the winter) and can trade or easily buy local free-range chicken, eggs, venison and turkey. Besides the immediate ethical and food-chain implications, there is another benefit to eating food that was raised as food, not mass production profit - it tastes SO much better! Just for example: have you ever compared a backyard grown tomato with a "tomato" from the supermarket? Or taste a burger made of grass-fed free-range beef?

I also recommend the book "Omnivore's Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food" (both by Michael Pollan and "the Shear Ecstasy of being a lunatic farmer" by Joel Salatin (although that one is probably more interesting if you are actually involved in farming yourself)

FitJoani

What really ruined food for me was the documentary "Earthlings." Some books that I've read that were interesting were the "Omnivores Dilemma" (kind of long and lengthy) and "Fast Food Nation" (a fast read).

Omnivoires Dilemma is a big contributor to food inc...

funnygirl0940

we planted a garden & got chickens...if I could have a goat & cow, I would! ;o) I was so impressed with it that I recommend it on my profile. Never buying hormone injected chicken breasts again, sick! We eat the whole chicken! Is it really so hard for us to understand how much money the markets are making off of us with processed food???? Incredible! I completely look at processed food in a new light. It says, "Don't buy or eat me" all over it! I make our food now.

cutmd

Oh, my favorite subject! I'm a huge Michael Pollan fan. I eat about 95% organic, and as much local as I can get from farmer's markets and whole foods. The only non-organic foods we eat now are the ones we buy in restaurants. Another reason to avoid eating out! I used to be really good about at least eating vegetarian at restaurants but have let that slip big time. Thanks for the reminder!

bucky17h

I have that movie sitting here, thanks for the reminder, I will watch it tonight. Food Matters is excellent too and eye opening, I watched that one twice.

ShannonWinger

Just watched Food Inc last night and wow! Makes you very afraid of non-organic meats. We live on a farm and have horses so it's really making me think we should invest in a couple of cows to process ourselves and eat more deer.

megamom

King corn is another good movie, makes you think. Support your local farmers market.

Pandorian

For the Canadians Food Inc is on CBC their 24 hour news/documentary type channel tonight, 10Eastern. I plan to catch it but if I miss it, yet again I'll find it again.

greengold

Oh yes - King Corn - I was going to mention that movie as well. Definitely worth it! Really eye-opening as to what Big Agri-business is doing to our food

MartiJJohnston

BUMP for the list of movies/books. Haven't seen them all yet!