Thread: Anyone seen "Food Inc" ?

Anyone seen this documentary by any chance? Makes you think about what you eat for sure... lol. Quite depressing to be honest. I never buy chicken/eggs from the supermarket, now I know why that's a good idea. But damn, the thing with washing steaks with detergent etc... is just not what I was hoping for, can't be too great for the taste/health aspect of the meat.

Anyone else saw it? My girlfriend stopped watching after half an hour, she couldn't take it. My brother freaked out just by the thought that this is fed to so many people. I'm guessing it is the same for us here in Europe, although, as strange as it sounds, I had never heard of E Coli before.

Truly mindblowing if all they say is true.

I think the same applies the world over. I haven't seen the film, but probably will sometime soon.

In the UK we've had many documentaries and news items about the practices of the food industry. The stuff they do to chicken meat is frightening (Chicken injected with beef waste sold in UK - News, Food & Drink - The Independent).

On the whole, we avoid supermarket meat completely and buy only from our (trusted) local butcher. Same with most any other food: grocer, fishmonger, baker. All local. Only go to the supermarket for cleaning products etc.

But you can't escape it all. My weak spot is curries. I love 'em. I'm hooked on them. But most curry houses use the 'crap' meat put through a plethora of processes. Might explain the morning after experience with curries.

I have it on queue

I have!

http://straightrazorpalace.com/conve...-food-inc.html

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I hope not but am not very optimistic either.

it does make you think.

After a little you want to never eat food again, but then the movie is long enough that I got hungry while I was watching.

We've started shopping at the local farmers market since.

I have not, but some time ago I saw another movie on the subject of how a lot of food happens, 'Our daily bread'. It was interesting, but I haven't changed my eating habits because of it.
I think that there is a lot of manufactured concern/fear, i.e. something can be perfectly good and reasonable, but it looks strange and unnatural, so it's easy to think it's really bad.

I prefer the ugly tomatoes from the farmers market to the perfect ones at the supermarket because they taste vastly better, and that's very high on my priority. But I know a lot of people especially here in america who will throw away a fruit or vegetable because it doesn't look picture perfect, say an apple with a spot that can be just cut away gets disposed.
I've grown crops and slaughtered animals for food. So I'm relatively familiar with how food happens.

Last time I checked it hasn't killed me. *shrug*

If you found that movie interesting, the book "Fast Food Nation" has some interesting parts in it regarding the US beef industry's ethics and practices - upon reading it I was rather glad I live in New Zealand, where all our cows are grass-fed and our meatworks are hygienic, safe, and don't exploit the crap out of migrant workers.

Random related stat: a study showed that there was more fecal bacteria in the kitchen sink of the average US home than in the toilet. The study implied a causative effect, saying the large number of fecal bacteria in the sink was due to poor safety standards and quality control on the slaughter line, as well as a push for speed and output over safety and cleanliness (hamburger meat etc has been tested by independent agencies and been shown to have wildly varying levels of fecal bacteria contamination, even from packet to packet of the same meat).

you also might want to check a couple of kevin trudeau's books. he goes into food in general and also into drugs and side effects. really he is talking about anything we put into or onto our bodies. if just 1/10 is fact it would still be scary..