FOOD INC.: IT’S A MOVIE ABOUT FOOD
Posted on | June 8, 2009 |
photo courtesy of the daily green
I woke up extra hungry this morning, and what did I see in my inbox? An invite to see FOOD, Inc.
As you all know, I’ve been having issues about what I eat - mainly not being such a food-whore and eating everything that lay in my path indiscriminately - so this should be good for me.
Peep the trailer —>
More on the film:
Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farms’ Gary Hirschberg and Polyface Farms’ Joe Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising — and often shocking truths — about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
FOOD, INC. opens in theaters June 12, 2009.
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June 9th, 2009 @ 4:10 pm
Thanks for posting the trailer for Food, Inc., coming out in theaters June 12, in San Francisco, New York City, and Los Angeles! There is also a book companion to the movie, Food, Inc. available at Amazon.com. The book explores topics that were discussed in the movie, such as the industrialization of our food supply and the benefits of local and organic eating. Food experts including Marion Nestle, Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan, and Anna Lappé, take these topics to another level through thirteen fascinating essays, some of which have been written especially for the movie. Check it out!
Shannon Matloob
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June 10th, 2009 @ 11:36 pm
The sad thing about this is that there is so much more scary stuff in food than this movie can even begin to document. Here are some things you should investigate for your readers.
Ben and Jerry’s and Breyers ice cream owned by major food and personal care products multinational Unilever contains genetically mutated fish proteins.
All that Horizon organic milk comes from a huge factory farm in Colorado where thousands of cows suffer in confinement. They are knee deep in their own waste and all of that gets on the udder where their milk comes out.
The dairy farms use hormones to synchronize the menstreul cycles of the cows so they can get them all pregnant at once. That makes our daughters have prematurely over enlarged breasts. Then the cows have their babies and all the boy babies are taken away and killed. The girls are pulled away and raised for the same miserable life as their mothers. Visit a big dairy farm, you’ll see it.
Fruits contain terminator technology. Seedless watermelon and grapes are rendered sterile through genetic manipulation. Farmers have to go back to the big corporations to get new seeds each year.
Its the same thing with corn. It’s all hybrids. You can save the seeds for the next year, but they dont’ grow very well and you have to go back and buy more.
All bananas come from genetic clones!
Maybe you are a foodie and like fine wine . . . the grape vines are fused to roots from completely different species, talk about frankenfood! This is so unnatural.
Even organic food often comes from crops that have been genetically modified by gamma radiation. It’s called mutagenesis. They just keep making random mutations until they get something that seems new and different that they like and go with it. People shopping at Whole Foods are putting this stuff in their bodies and don’t even know it!
Vegetable crops are fertilized with fecal matter. Think about that next time you eat a salad.
Almost none of the produce in the grocery story, even if it is supposedly organic, can be found in nature. Think about that. Even all those fresh fruits and veggies have been tampered with. Nothing we eat is the way nature made it unless we go and get it from the wild and grow it ourselves.