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A Stearns Farm Sharer's review of the film Food Inc.
Wed 22 Jul 2009 10:42am
This afternoon M. and I saw the documentary film "Food, Inc." in Waltham, which I feel is an absolute must see for all. (Also being shown at Coolidge Corner.) Encourage your friends to go.
After seeing the film I don't think I ever want to purchase beef again (unless grass fed on a small farm) and not purchase chicken from a factory farm. Same for pork. The first thing M. said after the film was that if she owned Monsanto or Tyson stock she would sell it immediately. Only about 3 major manufacturers of food now exist in USA. The FDA effectively does nothing. Food is grown and processed in a humongous mass production method with lots of machinery and in a manner where all is teetering on the edge of disaster. Disaster due to animal disease barely kept under control and growing animal feed and food as a gigantic monoculture. Human treatment of animals no longer exists. See http://www.foodincmovie.com and http://www.takepart.com/foodinc
I already knew the meat industry was not ethical and free of disease, etc., but this film obtained "inside" pictures the food manufacturers don't want the public to see. One of the farmers finally felt the way she was forced to grow chickens was too unethical to continue to keep quiet so let her and her farm be filmed. Her whole operation got fired for doing this. She now finds that if she needs antibiotics when sick, she can no longer use any. 73,000 Americans get sick each year from food born disease and obesity is out of control and farmland is going down-hill while many streams are highly polluted. The real cost of food far exceeds what one spends in the supermarket.
The film drives home that if we are to stay healthy and assist the planet being more sustainable there is an urgent need to purchase food locally grown by small farmers and to be members of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and Community Supported Fishery (CSF), and/or shop at farmers markets.
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