Has anyone seen "Food, Inc."? - Page 3

[chaoticzenmom]

Originally Posted by JamSamMom

Thank You for this thread! I just watched Food Inc. on netflix. It will help strengthen my families move toward being a vegan. Meat and dairy is so normalized and all around me in the form of fast food, billboards, advertizing. I need these images in my head when I go shopping.

Thank You!

Michelle

If you think Food inc will help you go Vegan, then you should watch Earthlings on youtube. Those are some images you want in your head if you're trying to go Vegan! I'm not though and Food inc just was a nice motivating documentary to me.

[WuWei]

Kelly the Kitchen Kop has suggested posting to Oprah's site regarding having Nina Planck on Oprah!! I'd love to see that!


Michael Pollan (Omnivore's Dilemma and Food, Inc.) was just on Oprah, so we're commenting to keep up the Real Food advocacy for mothers and babies!

• The first place I found to comment on the show with Michael Pollan
• The other place I found to comment on the show with Michael Pollan
• This Q & A with Michael Pollan is interesting, and there were only a couple comments there so far when I wrote mine.

Amazon is running a deal right now so you can buy Food, Inc. for $9.99!

Pat

[FoxintheSnow]

I just watched it and after a long discussion with my dh we decided to commit to only bringing in pasture raised, grass fed beef into our home. It will cost us a bit more, but I think it's worth it. Just that one change should make a difference.

[slaggyc]

My husband and I just watched the movie tonight. I had read Fast Food Nation awhile back, but that was about it. But, now I am questioning everything I buy that I thought was okay. I buy beef that is 'grass-fed'. If it's labeled as that, how do I really know it is okay. After seeing how the corporations are involved in so much food, I feel like I can easily get tricked!

[craft_media_hero]

Yeah, like pps it was really hard for me to watch. I'm a vegetarian for lots of reasons but the modern "factory farm" system is a big one of them.

I think it's a great movie to get people questioning where their food comes from, but personally I didn't need another documentary to help me get my corporate hate on. That comes a little too easily to me as it is, lol. I came to a lot of the same conclusions on my own, having grown up eating food (beef, chicken, milk, vegetables, fruit, etc.) from my grandma's farm and then seeing the difference between that in my childhood and what is available to me here in "the city" as an adult. Just thinking about how long mainstream "meat" sits from the time of slaughter to the time it gets to the plate is enough to turn me over to cooking up some dry beans and growing whatever I can to supplement our diet.

But I think it's great that the movie is out there; I've heard a lot of people talking about it lately and how they've decided to make more sustainable choices because Food Inc. got them thinking.

[lovebug]

i have it sitting on my coffee table as we speak. i am trying to muster up the guts to watch it! i do my best already (WAY before the movie) to buy meat and such that is organic and treated humanly. i just dont know if i have what it take to watch. to see livestock and such treated SO poorly kills me. the true cost of such food is so sad! i want to take a stand with my dollars!

[fresh_veggie]

Watched this as soon as it came to our art theater. Honestly, it was really tame compared to most films of this nature.

I've been vegan for years. Husband is vegetarian, but really doesn't do dairy or eggs either (Ok, someties we have local honey ). It's best for animals, our health, the planet, and so much more.

People often poke fun at me because I really do believe in the "power of one"...but honestly, that's the only way anyone's ever changed the world. But because of money, power, and authority, these things get washed over. We're fed "nutrition" information by huge corporations promoting their own products. We're victims of marketing campaigns that will just make people more money, regardless of health, safety, and our planet's limited resources. We CANNOT continue this way.

It's so wonderful there are like-minded people in this world. I attend a private university and study exercise & wellness... but it is still overrun with false information...textbooks are full of lobbyist's influences. Real research is not emphasized. But this is why I study what I study...I hope to make a difference even though I am just one.

Every dollar spent to the big machines supports them. Send your hard earned dollars elsewhere! It truly is possible to live cruelty free, in all meanings of the word, and to have a wonderful, meaningful life.

[KaylaBeanie]

I am going to watch it after school tomorrow...I'm nervous. I'm a strict vegetarian, and made the decision without watching anything about the meat industry. To me, it doesn't matter whether the animal is killed "humanely," dead meat is dead meat. I think to actually see the abuse will be hard.

[natty529]

I watched it the other day and while i do my very best eat organic/free range/ antibiotic/hormone free, this film made pretty sure that i am ready make the switch to vegetarian and maybe even vegan!

[KaylaBeanie]

Watched it. Wow. First of all, it completely solidified my decision to never eat meat again (four months and going strong!). I don't care if I end up knocked up with quints, I'll never, ever put meat in my mouth again. I had to look away even for the "humane" killing on the small farm.

The soybean thing baffled me. Typical story of the big guy suing the little guys into financial ruin. The woman who lost her child from e-coli broke my heart. I had no idea about "veggie libel" laws. What scared me was that cloned meat does not have to be labeled as cloned. I posted that on my Facebook, and somebody said "what's wrong with cloned meat as long as it tastes like meat?"

It's hard, because I'm an unemployed college student who lives at home, so I don't have the money to buy my own food. Thankfully, I eat few refined foods. I long for the day I can have my vegetarian, organic, wholesome foods kitchen when I'm on my own.

[fork]

I just watched this last night, and honesty the only part that got me going was at the end when they were talking about Monsanto's monopoly on seeds. I don't think gmo foods are harmful to humans, but I do think that bio-diversity is very important, and Monsanto is doing their best to destroy that.
I was expecting so much worse with concern to the footage of the animals, going by what people here were saying. What was shown wasn't anything that I hadn't already seen on the history or discovery channel, it just had the "scary" music.
The movie was well done, but I also think that it's mostly going to be "preaching to the choir" as they say. Someone like my mom would be totally put off by the tone of it, and completely miss the message.