Food Inc. is a great movie if you are new to the food wars. It sums up nicely the majority of the issues food advocates have with fast food, industrial farms and the food industry. If you have read a lot about this area, it is doubtful you will learn anything new, but that's not to take anything away from this film. I thought I knew a lot about how ridiculous some of the factory farm techniques were, but even I learned about a new low. When you feed cows corn they create e-coli in their bellies. Cows are supposed to eat grass. You can undo this problem very easily, it would seem, by feeding cows grass for the last 10 days before you slaughter them. This reduces e-coli by 80%. Seems like this would be any easy fix, but no, the large meat producers decide it is better to run the beef through an ammonia wash instead. These are the kinds of amazing things that will continue to astound and sadden you as you watch Food Inc.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Food Inc.
Food Inc. is a great movie if you are new to the food wars. It sums up nicely the majority of the issues food advocates have with fast food, industrial farms and the food industry. If you have read a lot about this area, it is doubtful you will learn anything new, but that's not to take anything away from this film. I thought I knew a lot about how ridiculous some of the factory farm techniques were, but even I learned about a new low. When you feed cows corn they create e-coli in their bellies. Cows are supposed to eat grass. You can undo this problem very easily, it would seem, by feeding cows grass for the last 10 days before you slaughter them. This reduces e-coli by 80%. Seems like this would be any easy fix, but no, the large meat producers decide it is better to run the beef through an ammonia wash instead. These are the kinds of amazing things that will continue to astound and sadden you as you watch Food Inc.
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