Documentary 'Food Inc.' lifts the veil on our food industry

watch what you eat..

There is a chilling connection between the food we eat as presented in this trailer to the rampant rise of diseases from which we suffer such as cancer, ADHD, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and of course, obesity. This documentary has the potential to get us talking as much as "Super Size Me" did.

this is fascinating

What a clever movie trailer!

Barbara3D writes,

"Excuse my ignorance on Monsanto but I am trying to figure this all out and make proper sense when I talk to others and Representatives. Is Monsanto a monopoly?" "Are small farmers in bed with Monsanto?"

Is Monsanto a problem for farmers? As Mooselini herself might say - "Yew Betcha!"

http://www.percyschmeiser.com/

Mr Schmeiser is a farmer from Saskatchewan, Canada, who was sued by Monsanto because wind-blown seeds landed in his drainage ditch - "contaminating" the ditch - and grew there.

Monsanto's spies found the growth, analyzed it, and Mr. Schmeizer was charged with breach of patent.

He was prosecuted and heavily fined. He lost every appeal in Canada's lower courts.

Being an old school hardass he was not about to tolerate this nonsense and took the issue all the way to Canada's Supreme Court.

Sensing perhaps that the winds had changed Monsanto offered Mr. Schmeiser "a deal." If he'd just sign a secrecy agreement, pledging never to discuss the case in public, they'd settle in his favor.

He refused. And won anyway.

You want to know what kind of corporation Monsanto is, and why such corporations should be busted into a million anti-monopoly pieces?

Visit farmer Percy's site.

This site lists news article regarding HR875. I have already let it be known to my representatives that I oppose this bill as written, as the language is vague and as written will work against small farms regarding the amount of money they will have to put out in order to comply. And it is not from these small family farms where the recent contamination is coming from. It is from the processing plants and the factory farms.

I will even go so far as to state that I have seen a corrolation between the rise of salmonella poisoning and the introduction of GMOS into our environment. Neither Monsanto nor the FDA really followed the process of what happens to these organisms in the open environment under certain conditions. They could not even tell us if the BTcorn somehow mutates down the line as transgenic contamination possibly carries bacteria to other plants. So as long as this bill continues to be vaguely worded and allows variances to larger operations to escape responsibility, I will oppose this bill.

Does anyone know when they are going to vote on House Bill 875?

Monsanto has been patenting every seed stock they can - and trying to create plants that can't reproduce - so everyone would have to continually buy.

They are trying to make it impossible for you to eat without them.

I've been off fast/super processed food for about a year now and I don't miss it. Sad thing is, it's not cheap to eat right.

Yesterday I was at the supermarket and I picked up a bag of pre-cooked chicken breasts just for kicks, there were more than 30 ingredients listed on the package. Check out "whole wheat bread" next time you're at the market, I bet most of it has a loooong list of ingredients that don't belong in bread. My rule with bread is: less than ten ingredients and more fiber than sugar (harder to find than you think).

I'm planting a big fat garden this spring.

I hear you Jan. I feel that I need to let you know that your opinions expressed here have always been rational in my opinion. This is actually on topic....I have jumped into veg vs meat arguments on threads about things not even related to the subject. I feel some people just want to say...it is because you eat meat...to attack a person for any reason.

It can't be brought down to that simple a level. This is about people who have a moral center and who care about the planet and the health of others, against those who are only in this for profit and control at the expense of our health and planet. And as a result of that, our rights as consumers are also being trampled on. You can still eat meat and care about how it is made.This is about the destruction of agriculture as we know it, and practices that put lives in danger from the seeds, to the pesticides, to the processing, to the marketing, to the selling, and the concerted effort on the part of these multinationals and our own government to keep the truth about it from us, whether we are a 'veggie or a meatie.'

Here we go again....the veggies vs the meaties.

Factory farms = horrible cruelty to animals and unsafe food. If you must eat meat, try to buy human raised, and buy vegetables if you can from your local farmers if you have any.
They feed so many antibiotics to animals that they have developed dangerous resistant forms of bacteria.
And the vegetables have unsafe pesticides on them. They are using systemics in foreign countries that are illegal and our corrupt FDA lets it all come here.

We need this to come out in the corporate media.

Can't wait to see it! I really enjoyed the movie Korn King and this looks to be just as good!

i have not seen real food in awhile. It is only when it is in season around here. Jersey fresh is my last hope for the market, other than that , it is scary food every day!

Do you realize how hard it is to feel comfortable with the food choices we have when you have an immune deficiency?

It is stressful.

My nutritionist helps me and it is work. We have to weigh process over price.Are pesticides gonna fuck my liver or can I even afford to worry about that?

For some the importance of good food is life or death , trust me.

that is gross how they make are food

I'm no food or organics expert, however I will say that hearing the guy talk about tomatoes ripened with Ethylene gas frightened me, until I Googled it. I'll hold my judgments until I've seen the rest of the film, but tomatoes and a lot of other fruits naturally release Ethylene gas during ripening. Wikipedia explains that it's most common use is, scarily enough, is Polyethylenes. Par the wiki, "Approximately 80% of ethylene used in the United States and Europe is used to create ethylene oxide, ethylene dichloride, and polyethylene."

Just my initial reaction.

yes!

From what century did you emerge, Patriotic Astronaut? The industrial revolution has long since passed. Today, there is no other way to connect with our distribution network in sufficient quantity to insure the greedy their profits.

NATURAL selection? Natural? Can you read what you wrote? Using that term is as silly as your lack of awareness and that chip you have on your shoulder. LOL

There were those in olden days who thought blood-letting was a GOOD idea and there were also those who swore by dunking stools.

I'm glad that gene appears to be recessive and tips off its existence with bellicose outbursts like yours.

Thanks for the warning.

So what? Its called industrialization. Natural selection.
Go fuck yourselves vegetarians.

Yes, make no mistake about it, this is war and the Monsantos, ADMS, Cargills, Dows, etc. of this world are lining up to tell you what you will consume and eat on their terms, and they are buying our government in the process. It is besides being environmental terrorism (and I don't think that is too strong a term) a gross violation of our civil liberties and freedoms. I look forward to this film coming out and I hope it awakens those who think that when they walk into a supermarket that the products they buy are made by people who care about them. In many cases that couldn't be furthest from the truth. Those who control the food AND the water, control the people. This is their goal and we must stop them. The biodiversity of our planet depends on it.

And Inofuilwell, thanks so much for your comments. They are very much appreciated.

damn i was hoping this movie had come out. I think there is another doc called "the world according to monsanto." that might be worth checking out. haven't seen that one yet.

Thank you for your eternal vigilance, JanforGore! I and others appreciate the bejezzus out of what you do and how you verify what is hurting us and the planet.

As inhabitants of a challenged world, many of us fail to realize what dire consequences we face when we gear up to do ANYTHING on this large a scale whether it be fuel, food, defense, war, population sprawl, construction, habitat destruction, resource depletion, water processing and delivery, sewage treatment, genetic engineering, irradiation, power generation and a whole lot more.

There ONCE was point when the cumulative damage could have been repaired.

There are far too few JanforGore's and even fewer who are committed to rushing headlong into the fray to help her.

Those who make your job more difficult also make our lives far too complicated to keep up with their abuses of power and position.

Those who think government is too small are clueless.

When Industry reaches a point where it becomes the final rulemaker for itself, it is too powerful for the good of the citizenry.

Enough of us not only need to listen to those like Jan but we also need to recruit allies in what will eventually be a fight for the very survival of our fragile planet against an enemy from within and cunningly wearing the clothing of our own friends and neighbors.

Right now, capitalism for capitalism's sake has turned the morals that used to be present in industry into a frenetic version of the Law of the Jungle or Darwin's long challenged natural selection process that in this case morphed into the survival of the most financially fit.

We see it when Wal-Mart realizes that taxpayers will SUBSIDIZE its underpaid workers and that tax abatements can be wrested from cities desperate for the menial jobs they bring to town.

Do you see the vicious circle yet? Only strong, dedicated and timely opposition will every stop this crushing avalanche that we see Jan's food business model transcends within all mega-industries

Thanks again, JanforGore! Your efforts are not unappreciated and they'd better be heeded sooner rather than later..

Yale is hosting its first eco-film fest at its LEED-Platinum Kroon Hall headquarters, April 16-19.

Opening with "Food Inc."

Other documentaries being shown include "Crude" by filmmaker Joe Berlinger about Ecuador’s battle with Chevron over communities destroyed by oil drilling; Scott Hamilton Kennedy’s Oscar nominee, "The Garden" about the nation’s largest community garden in a mostly Latino neighborhood of Los Angeles, and how South Central Farm has resisted a developer’s bulldozer and political wrangling, and "Gimme Green" about American obsession with the $40-billion industry of lawns.

The 15-film event closes with Josh Tickell’s "Fuel" about America's relationship with oil and how sustainable energy sources are an alternative to fossil fuels.

Death himself will be in charge of our food if that bill ( H. R. 875 ) passes . Only a few days and no debate . The purest villainy I know . Food safety my *ss !

PLEASE, READ ABOUT NEW BILL H.R. 875

http://blog.friendseat.com/rosa-delauro-hates-small-farms1/

That sorry excuse for food will kill us all if we let it . Especially protect your kids . It will make them ill before their time . Obama shows no signs of fighting it either . It is up to us , unless you like being a lab rat .

"...has declined rapidly"?

The quality of 'our' food (not mine cause I don't want anything to do with the food which we are talking about here, plus I'm an immigrant ) is the most despicable production of man since the microwave. Currently, the main food eaten most often by the majority of Americans, is one step way from becoming completely distinguishable to the level of the molecule from any of the nourishing substances our bodies have been used to consuming, and have needed for survival. It is quite disgusting the speed with which the change is occurring and the effects on our bodies and culture.

It's about time a video like this comes out. I hope it would have such a "success" like Farenheit 9/11 (the only documentary of the recent past so widely watched in the theaters). And even then --God help us-- it will probably not be enough.

I urge everybody who frequents this website to stop eating junk-food from big corporations (I mean COMPLETELY) and only shop for food as local as possible and as organic as possible. This is a question of ideology as well as a nourishing practice for your body. Because there is no way our bodies are going to adapt quick enough to this garbage-eating process so many of us have already started and probably got sick from... without even knowing...

Without discipline we will all parish.

List of brands that Kraft owns:

1. A1
2. Alpen Gold
3. Breakstone’s Knudsen
4. Capri Sun
5. Carte Noir
6. Cheez Whiz
7. Chips Ahoy!
8. Club Social
9. Cool Whip
10. Cote d’Or
11. California Pizza Kitchen
12. Cracker Barrel
13. Cyrstal Light
14. Deluxe
15. DiGiorno
16. Estrella
17. General Foods International
18. Gevalia
19. Grand Mere
20. Handy Snacks
21. Honey Maid
22. Jacks
23. Jacobs
24. Jell-O
25. Kenco,
26. Kool Aid
27. Kraft
28. Lacta
29. Lu
30. Lunchables
31. Marabou
32. Maxwell House
33. Milka
34. Miracle Whip
35. Nabisco
36. Newtons
37. Nilla
38. Nutter Butter
39. Onko
40. Oreo
41. Oscar Mayer
42. Philadelphia
43. Planters
44. Polly-O
45. Post
46. Premium
47. Prince
48. Ritz
49. Royal
50. Simmenthal
51. South Beach Living
52. Stove Top
53. Tang
54. Tassimo
55. Toblerone
56. Tombstone
57. Trakinas
58. Triscuit
59. Velveeta
60. Wheat Thins

There's no question that the taste, quality & most importantly, the safety of food has declined rapidly over the last several years, most noticeably in supermarkets, while local organic & natural food stores have consistently improved. It should be a crime that we have to pay more to eat healthier, naturally & safer. Knowing we have to eat, the corruption at so many levels is disheartening. Thankfully, more & more people are waking up & taking notice of this injustice.

This is so chilling and effective. I especially liked the combines and the narration juxtaposed perfectly.