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An excellent film that kept us interested all the way through, except I feel too much time was spent on the woman who lost a child and we fast forwarded through some of that. I am sorry for her loss but it just dragged on too long. My skeptical husband since bought the DVD and has been passing it around to friends, who now want me to raise all their chicken and pork for them :-D
Unlike PETA films this one does not try to gross you out and make you a vegetarian. There are a few short graphic scenes but rather than try to sicken you, the message they are trying to get across is how a handful of Big Ag companies control over 80% of America's food supply, and how politically powerful and nearly untouchable these companies are. It all seems very bleak, but at the end you are told how you can get better control of your own food supply... for example raise whatever you can, buy direct from the farmer at the farm or at farmers' markets, at the very least eat simpler and make as much as possible from scratch and fresh foods rather than buying prepackaged, highly processed foods.
One point I would like to make about the chickens is that they are not "forced" to grow unnaturally fast as some reviewers say... they have been BRED to grow that way. I grow the same chickens, Cornish Cross broilers, in my "back yard" (we have 10 acres). Mine spend the first three weeks in the brooder til they are feathered out, and in addition to meat bird starter get hand pulled clover and grass with dirt and roots, as well as all the fine hay bits leftover from feeding other animals. After moving to pasture pens I cut their high-powered Meat Grower feed with 25% plain scratch because in my first batch, before I cut the feed, I did have a few keel over from congestive heart failure from too-rapid growth. They also get moved to fresh grass 2-3x daily. No problems with the next two batches -- I ordered 75 chicks and was shipped 79 (a good hatchery always includes a few extras) in those batches and had only 3 die, and those within the first few days, weak ones/shipping stress. I butchered from 6 to 8 weeks of age and while I did not weigh them, visually they were almost all larger than the storebought birds which are usually 3-1/2 to 4 lbs. In fact some were Godzilla chickens, about 8-10 lbs!
I love meat and will never be vegetarian unless I am forced to it. Some people will take this movie as a call to vegetarianism. I see it as a reason to buy your food direct from the farmer who grows it, one who allows you to visit the farm personally and see how it is raised. "Organic" simply means the animal was fed organically-grown feed. The animals can still be raised in terrible conditions and their meat labelled "Organic". "Cage Free" and "Free Range" does not mean the birds are happily running around a pasture... it can mean there are still hundreds or thousands crowded at a square foot per bird into buildings, with all their food,water and shade inside so even if there is one small door to the "free range" outside they are likely not going to use it.
I want to know how my meat was raised and how it died and was processed. I am lucky in that I can raise and home butcher my own pork and chicken and buy my beef from a friend who raises her animals the same way I do. Many cities are allowing folks within the city limits to keep chickens, so anyone can now keep their own for eggs or meat. My own town has no regs against livestock at all and I know a man in the middle of town who raised a pig in his back yard last year. He does have a large lot and kept the pen scrupulously clean so the neighbors would not have any complaints about smell. Laying hens and meat birds make a lot less noise than your average dog. Just don't keep any roosters to avoid annoying the neighbors (with meat birds sex doesn't matter, they are butchered long before they begin crowing).
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Food, Inc. lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing how our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profi t ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Food, Inc. reveals surprising – and often shocking truths – about what we eat, how it’s produced and who we have become as a nation.
"IT MIGHT CHANGE YOUR LIFE." - O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE
Don't be ignorant about what you eat!
A must see documentary for all! We have to stay informed about the food we eat and this is an excellent way to do that. This informative film reveals surprising, and 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. features 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.
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