documentary Food, Inc

[harma]

I think it has been mentioned here before, but I am not sure. I just watched the documentary Food Inc. on DVD and I am shocked, what do I say SHOCKED. It's about what became of the American food industry the last 20 to 30 years. Well I am sure in Europe it won't be much better. Shocked about everything, how the food industry (almost) have a monopoly on meat, corn, soy, grain. Controls the whole system, the farmers, the workers in the factory, the supermarket. But also they have the government in their pocket. Even worse how a lot of government money (read tax payers money) is put into the system to keep it working. It is sick and it makes people sick. Sick in two ways, directly with more and more resistant bacteria's in the food chain and indirect by promoting us to eat unhealthy food. By subsidizing the unhealthy food.

It is really a wakeup call for me, I have to admit. I had no idea, it was this horrible. I still had that image of 20 - 30 years ago. I grew up on a dairy farm. Vegetables came from our own garden, in summer fresh, in winter frozen (but from our own garden), the meat we were eating was always one of our own cows, going to the local butcher (a small one with maybe 5 to 10 people working there) and where they butcher bought all the animals personal, knew where his animals were coming from. The cows were already eating corn, but only in winter when they were inside in the barn, but that was than only part of their food, they also got some half dried grass (not hay, but something like it).
It was not as perfect is a 100% organic farm, but it was still heaving comparing of what farming is now!!!

This finally convinced me to only buy organic meat (yes with my ideas of meat of about 30 years ago I thought what can be wrong with it than) and also wild fish, fish farming is as bad as the meat I think. Easy with my diet, I don’t have to worry anymore about corn, grains, diary, soy. And the little processed food I still eat, I will from now on check the labels even better.

Than came to my mind, how to deal with it, when I am back in Jordan. There I am most of the time happy that I find food I can eat. But than came to my mind, try to find locally produced food, there isn't a real food industry yet in Jordan.

But really to anyone that still has no clue what is going on in our food industry try Food Inc. It is even worse than you thought.