FOOD, INC. — ReThink Review
Imagine a world where the food you ate was secretly replaced with a factory-created artificial replica that looked, smelled, and tasted just like the original, sometimes even better. But most of this fake food, including the meat, was made of only one or two plant-based materials and a gang of weird chemicals, and if you ate enough of it, it would slowly kill you through a range of terrible diseases. Well guess what America? You currently live in such a bizarro world! The nearly complete industrialization and corporatization of our food system is one of America’s darkest, deadliest, and best-kept secrets, and the important new documentary FOOD, INC. seeks to expose it by asking questions you’d think we’d already have the answers to — how is our food made, who’s making it, and what the are they putting in it?
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you actually did a …
you actually did a good job reviewing the videos… spoke like an auctioner…you must be reading from a telepromter
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@yoursuccessonpurpose Ray Crock bought out the McDonald Brothers.
These people are …
These people are bullshitting. Buying fast food everyday is far more expensive than cooking your own food. They’re making excuses. The director could have been a little more honest and revealed the math rather than just saying X cost more up front while Y cost less. Why not say in the long run, buying X is cheaper than Y? Other than that small issue, it’s a good movie.
@petorvic Democracy …
@petorvic Democracy? Since when has a poor man won a power seat in politics?
@honeybear64 but …
@honeybear64 but thats not really what its about the fact is that even the fruits and vegetables are being chemically enhanced and being covered with harmful preservatives
Hey the McDonald …
Hey the McDonald brothers did start the factory Mcdonalds – wasn’t that Ray Crock? If that’s wrong what else is????
thats why i try not …
thats why i try not to buy foods ferom the super maket i go hunting insted
@honeybear64 ‘A …
@honeybear64 ‘A spectator sport’ I like that, it’s a very apt discription!
@jupiterscastle @ …
@jupiterscastle @jupiterscastle You don’t have to go vegetarian to reduce your contribution to Big Industrial Food and its assault on our health. Just try shopping around the perimeter of the grocery store, where the real food is, and avoid the processed crap in the middle aisles. Reducing your meat consumption would benefit animals, the environment, and your own health, but you don’t have to eliminate it entirely to do some good.
@jupiterscastle You …
@jupiterscastle You don’t have to go vegetarian to reduce your contribution to Big Industrial Food and its assault on our health. Just try shopping around the perimeter of the grocery store, where the real food is, and avoid the processed crap in the middle aisles. Reducing your meat consumption would benefit animals, the environment, and your own health, but you don’t have to eliminate it entirely to do some good.
As Bittman says, …
As Bittman says, ultimately it’s not whether it’s the most amazing cheeseburger from the gourmet steakhouse made with free range grass-fed beef or the industrial cheeseburger from McDonald’s, or whether it’s a locally-grown organic head of broccoli or a commercially produced head of broccoli from the supermarket. The ultimate question is: is it the cheeseburger or the head of broccoli.
Bittman also notes …
Bittman also notes that sometimes all this concern over local, organic, free range, etc., can obscure the larger question of PROPORTION. If you took the proportions of meat and junk vs. fruit, veg and grain in the American diet and reversed them, you might get something approaching a healthy diet (20/80 instead of 80/20).
As Pollan said, …
As Pollan said, we’ve turned special occasion food into everyday food. Meat can certainly be part of a healthy diet, but NOT in the insanely huge amounts represented by the Standard American Diet (with its stunningly accurate acronym SAD). Mark Bittman notes that experts who are serious about disease reduction recommend that adults eat no more than just over half a pound of meat per WEEK. How much do most ppl eat per DAY? Half a pound.
@LegalAlien100 Spot …
@LegalAlien100 Spot on correct. Meat is absurdly cheap these days. 100 years ago, average non-wealthy folks, if they ate meat daily, ate it in small amounts, often more as a flavoring than the main focus of the meal, and eating it in substantial portions was reserved for special occasions, like the good old Sunday roast. The idea of average ppl being able to afford huge amounts of meat 3 x a day every day was inconceivable until fairly recently.
@passta1 One of the …
@passta1 One of the main problems is the huge conflict of interest at the USDA. Their job is to protect America’s big agricultural interests, while they’re also the ones providing the public’s nutritional guidelines. Giving that responsibility to an agency protecting industrialized meat, cheese, and junk food is like giving the responsibility for providing respiratory health guildelines to Phillip Morris.
@jasonfkg Re: …
@jasonfkg Re: affording organic and healthy food – looking at standard portion sizes (and belly sizes) these days and comparing them to standard portion sizes 50 years ago, I’d say one good way for people to reduce how much they need to spend on food is to stop eating so much of it. Not that many people will.
@LegalAlien100 Good …
@LegalAlien100 Good point. It’s particularly amazing how people can manage to find the time to watch three hours of cooking shows on Food Network, and then complain that they don’t have time to cook. I believe it was Michael Pollan who said that more and more these days, cooking is becoming a spectator sport. The celebrity chef is god, while the home cook is a dying breed.
WAKE …
WAKE UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP AMERICA…
@LegalAlien100 …
@LegalAlien100 That’s actually a really good point – and it comes back to education: if kids are not learning how to cook at home, they should be learning in school, so that they can cook for themselves if their parents are not around to do it. I’m not from the US, but I read recently that in many families in the US this is the 2nd or even 3rd generation growing up not knowing how to cook,
@Nephtys80 I just …
@Nephtys80 I just think that everyone can be pro-active in working to address the issues that they face. I mean they even admit to realizing what they are doing is damaging them. Yes, the parents are home so late it is difficult for them to do much, but what about the elder daughter at 0:09 or even the younger daughter for that matter? Surely they can work together to cook a decent meal for themselves, not just rely on take-out delivered to them by their parents.
@Nephtys80 I am not …
@Nephtys80 I am not saying that the points being made about the difficulties that families face are not relevant or acute; believe me I am very interested in seeing an intrinsic change to the Farm Bill and the general political attitude to food and subsides too.
A MUST see!
A MUST see!
@LegalAlien100 Same …
@LegalAlien100 Same goes for me: I don’t own a TV and I love to cook, for me it’s my way to relax after a day’s work. Like you, I often end up eating at 9 or 10, which is fine for me. However, I don’t have kids: If you watch all of Food Inc., you see a younger daughter in the family featured who should be in bed by 10, and you hear the parents say they leave for work at six in the morning and come back at 9 or 10 at night. I wish they didn’t feed their kids fast food, but I can see why they do
@kenfla2 At the …
@kenfla2 At the very end of this documentary they make that exact point. They said something like we can vote on this, and in fact we vote three times a day. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
I can remember back …
I can remember back in the mid 70′s in first grade they were teaching that smoking and junk food is bad, so its no secret, EVERYBODY KNOWS! Industry is going to give the people what the WANT. Can you blame them? So you can’t blame the Goverment or big buisness, you have to blame the people cause if they didn’t buy that burger, Burger King wouldn’t be there. Am i wrong?