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CBC Exposes Corrupt Food
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Sunday, 04 April 2010 10:03
FOOD, Inc This is a documentary that YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS.
It is playing again on CBC on Sun April 11 and Sat. April 17
This is a documentary that you will also want to keep for reference - so
tape it if you can.
Also make sure that ALL of your friends, family and acquaintances watch it.
Remember that we can change the production patterns by changing our shopping
patterns. When we start to refuse to buy (boycott) unhealthy "factory farm"
sourced foods, or genetically engineered foods, or irradiated foods, or
pesticided and chemicalized foods, etc, - and when enough of us let the
supermarkets know that we won't buy these products - they will change! WE
the consumers do have POWER. We just have to use it. As long as we are
irresponsible enough to put convenience, expediency and "junk food
preference" ahead of feeding our families with nutrition foods, we will have
given away our ability to control the marketplace with the DEMAND side of
the equation. Right now the SUPPLIERS are telling us that we have to take
whatever THEY decide they re going to allow us to buy.
We have to take back our "consumer power".
We have to educate ourselves, and then we have to let them know in no
uncertain terms that if they want us as customers, they will have to start
giving us what we want to buy.
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http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2010/foodinc
Food, Inc.
Sunday April 11 at 10 PM ET/PT & Saturday April 17 at 7 PM ET on CBC News
Network
How much do we know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and
serve to our families? Though our food appears the same - a tomato still
looks like a tomato - it has been radically transformed.
In the Oscar-nominated Food, Inc., producer-director Robert Kenner and
investigative authors Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan
(The Omnivore's Dilemma) lift the veil on the U.S. Food industry - an
industry that has often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihoods
of American farmers, the safety of workers and our own environment.
With the use of animation and compelling graphics, the filmmakers expose the
highly mechanized, Orwellian underbelly that's been deliberately hidden from
the American consumer.
They reveal how a handful of corporations control our nation's food supply.
Though the companies try to maintain the myth that our food still comes from
farms with red barns and white picket fences, our food is actually raised on
massive "factory farms" and processed mega industrial plants. The animals
grow fatter faster and are designed to fit the machines that slaughter them.
Tomatoes are bred to be shipped without bruising and to stay edible for
months. The system is highly productive, and Americans are spending less on
food than ever before. But at what cost?
Cattle are given feed that their bodies are not biologically designed to
digest, resulting in new strains of E. Coli bacteria, which sickens roughly
73,000 Americans annually. And because of the high proliferation of
processed foods derived from corn, Americans are facing epidemic levels of
diabetes among adults and alarming increases in obesity, especially among
children.
And, surprisingly, all of it is happening right under the noses of
government regulatory agencies, the USDA and the FDA. The film exposes a
"revolving door" of executives from giant food corporations in and out of
Washington D.C. That has resulted in a lack of oversight and illuminates how
this dysfunctional political system often operates at the expense of the
American consumer. In the nation's heartland, farmers have been silenced -
afraid to talk about what's happening to the nation's food supply for fear
of retaliation and lawsuits from giant corporations.
Laws today are such that corporations are allowed to patent seeds for crops.
As a result, Monsanto, the former chemical company that manufactured Agent
Orange and DDT - in a span of 10 years - has landed its patented gene in 90%
of the nation's soybean seeds. Farmers are now forbidden to save and reuse
these seeds and must instead buy new seed from Monsanto each season. Armed
with a team of employees dedicated to enforcing their seed patents, Monsanto
spends millions every year to investigate, intimidate and sue farmers --
whom are financially unable to fight the corporation.
Food, Inc. Also introduces us to courageous people who refuse to helplessly
stand by and do nothing. Some, like Stonyfield Farm's Gary Hirshberg and
Polyface Farm's Joel Salatin, are finding ways to work inside and outside
the system to improve the quality of our food. Others are brave men and
women who have chosen to speak out, such as chicken farmer Carole Morison,
seed cleaner Moe Parr and food safety advocate Barbara Kowalcyk. Their
stories, both heartbreaking and heroic, serve to demonstrate the level of
humanity and commitment it takes to fight the corporations that control the
food industry.
It's important to note that the filmmakers attempted to interview
representatives from Monsanto, Tyson, Perdue and Smithfield, but they all
declined.
Food, Inc. illustrates the dangers of a food system controlled by powerful
criticize how our food is made. The film reveals how complicated and
compromised the once simple process of growing crops and raising livestock
to feed ourselves and our families has become. But, it also reminds us that
despite what appears to be at times a hopeless situation, each of us still
has the ability to vote on this issue every day - at breakfast, lunch and
dinner.
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