To anyone who hasn't seen Food, Inc yet...it is a must see.

dkf

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Sun Jun-26-11 08:27 PM
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To anyone who hasn't seen Food, Inc yet...it is a must see.

It's on netflix streaming if you have the service.

I didn't think I would learn that much, but putting it all together like that is so overwhelming. For those who feel the system is the problem, boy was that brought home. If ever there was an indictment of government working in collusion with business this is it. Yet it seems even worse than the normal, where it seems so designed to work together.

After I saw it I tried to find something to eat around the house. I landed up eating a banana and some frozen veggies and I am hungry.

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ixion

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Sun Jun-26-11 08:29 PM
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1. Yep, it's a must-see.

I was like you, thinking that I wouldn't learn much, but I did. That documentary and King Corn are two must see DVDs.

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dkf

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Sun Jun-26-11 08:35 PM
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2. Now THAT was the biggest revelation.

I've been telling people the human body wasn't meant to consume so much sugar, but I never considered that cows aren't meant to eat corn! And they are feeding the stuff to our salmon? Eek!

Nothing is as nature intended it. No wonder it's all so screwed up.

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ixion

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Sun Jun-26-11 08:46 PM
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3. yep, and chickens aren't meant to be crammed into a warehouse

stuffed with antibiotics, de-beaked and de-clawed.

Our entire infrastructure is based on thwarting nature, rather than working with it. It's retarded, in my opinion.

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dkf

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Sun Jun-26-11 09:19 PM
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5. The thing is you could never convey in a conversation all that information.

I could have read posts for years and not really understood half of what they explained.

I will definitely have to see King Corn as that seems to be the starting point for much of this. It certainly puts the first in the nation caucus status for Iowa in a different light.

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tishaLA

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Sun Jun-26-11 09:13 PM
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4. the corn-eating salmon really shocked me

I showed the film to my students last summer and had former students involved in sustainability and organic farming come in to talk with them. My former students talk about the issue in really interesting ways: they are Latino and tie it to identity politics in very productive ways, calling it indigenous farming and relating it to their Aztec heritage.

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PoliticAverse

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Sun Jun-26-11 09:55 PM
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6. See also the 24 minute PBS program on Food Inc. here:

http://video.pbs.org/video/1143263943/

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