Food Inc. on CBC. Did anyone see it? What did you think?

[joedales]

Sandy and I watched Food Inc. tonight on the CBC. It is an interesting documentary. They don't like the large scale industrialization of the food industry and the corporate concentration.

I was wondering if anyone saw it and what they thought?

Here is the movie trailer.

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[agstar77]

Sheer dependence of consumer(sheep) us on industry doing the right thing. Only 13 packing plants supply all the beef in the U.S. Just makes one wonder where we are headed. The quest for cheap food marchs on.

[BTOfarmall]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQnnU4BQz-0&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL - Food Inc. Full Movie part 1 of 7

Woodn't mind watchin' dese ones fer free....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwR44T69_Is - Fresh The Movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKPcuwOOGqY&feature=related - Dirt The Movie

[JDGreen]

Very interesting documentary. I ran across it last night but missed the first 5 minutes. The documentary was well made, informative, and quite shocking in a number of ways. I was especially shocked at monsanto suing the seed cleaner for so called "encouragement" of producers cleaning RR beans. I'm waiting for parsley to jump into this one. Gonna fill my popcorn bowl sit back and watch this thread...

[ado089]

I thought it was an OK perspective into food. My problem with it was that for everyone good point they made they slipped in two radical lefty anti capitalism, animal rights, organic ... digs.

[joedales]

I agree, they were looking to shock the consumer in the name of entertainment.

After thinking about it for a few hours, I don't think it made farmers look too bad...he really hammered on the big agribusinesses.

If you missed it, I think you can watch it online at cbc.ca

[URL="http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2010/foodinc/"]http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2010/foodinc/ [/URL]

[freewheat]

Interesting, and typical cbc crap is what I say. The chick with her pathetic excuse for a barn, being pushed out by her contract company? Poor girl. Look at her fricking barn people. How safe did that look. My chicken coop looks like a friggin hospital ward compared to that.

I thought it was interesting in that I agree something has gone wrong in some ways, but it was a little like a mickael moore documentary in that it was quite one sided. But why would the cbc ask for reality?

The dude OUTSIDE slaughtering his chickens? How sanitary. No flies at all, hee hee.

Anyways, gotta go educate some kids. My wife and I watched it together and she is not a historic farmgirl, but she groaned at the ridiculous spots, like when the pig dude sat in the pig pen and the movie makers made this to seem like he was relaxing in a rose garden. Like the big producers can't cuddle up to a tree, and make their livelihood romantic...

[parsley]

I saw it several years ago. Doesn't matter what I think. The important thing for farmers wanting to sell what they grow is this:

What did the folks and their kids who fill up their grocery carts think?
Pars

[JDGreen]

cmon pars. I can hardly believe you would say it doesn't matter. Are you having bad monday morning ?? :-)

[jensend]

i don't think it casts farmers in a bad light but it does try to point out that modern agriculture is less about food and more about an industrial production system. i couldn't see anything about it that you could challenge on fact. it's just a narrative on how things are done with the slant that maybe the system doesn't care about food quality like it used to.

[bgmb]

Exactly Parsley,

Troy Roush said it best in the movie. Basically, farmers will grow what consumers demand. If they want the lowest price they get bigger farms, drainage, bush clearing, big retailers, GMO's, big livestock operations and the list goes on.

[bgmb]

Wouldn't it be neat to have a diversified operation on every section, with kids chasing and tackling chickens and milking cows every morning but milk would be 8 or 12 per gallon instead of 4. Not the way it has gone, not the farmers fault.

[parsley]

If you really want to know, I thought the film was bad PR for all of agriculture.

If I was a buyer from New Zealand, it wouldn't make me rush to the order phone to dial North America.

Pars

[grassfarmer]

Exactly Parsley - saw it a while ago but already knew about it by the increase in demand for our grass-fed beef. The consumer votes with their shopping cart. Most telling thing in this thread is that some farmers hadn't watched it until now - way behind the consumers.

[fjlip]

13 plants but only 4 major beef processors controlling 75% in the US? Can this get down to ONE in the future?
Too much control in too few corporations with profit the only motive.
No regard for health or nutrition or consequences of processing.
Animals in close concentrations breed disease and cause issues in processing.
Our families butchered grass fed cattle, out side raised pigs and chickens, outdoors with the flies for years, still cleaner than the massive slaughter plants.
Why is the consumer NOT allowed to see the processing of our food?
Lots to hide perhaps? Scary bloody disgusting, would turn consumers off?
Big money dictating government regulation.
They suggested CHEAP corn as the root cause of many issues in our food supply. Number one is high fructose corn syrup.
It costs more to eat properly.
Cheap food = poorer food = health consequences.
Farmer a victim as much as consumer.
Sad if true, very hard to undo.