Has anyone watched Food Inc.?

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Has anyone watched Food Inc.? Does anyone know if there are any trustable fact checks on the movie? I'm thinking about eating more organic now, but I'd like to think I wasn't deceived into becoming organic.

If you haven't seen it, the movie is very well made. I'm just hoping the information is honest.

www.foodincmovie.com

-Kyle
 
Sure looks legit to me & they weren't sued as far as I know. Remember when Oprah was sued for just saying not to eat meat?

Organic means that they can fertilize with manure & I would prefer not eating too much of that.
 
morriefisher said:
Organic means that they can fertilize with manure & I would prefer not eating too much of that.
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I don't see anything wrong with fertilizing, but I grew up in the country. I think manure fertilizing is so much better than spraying chemicals on everything we eat.

I watched the movie again last night with my wife and her friend. I definitely see some misleading segments of the movie, but overall, I mostly agree with the lesson they are trying to teach. My wife and I are going to start making some changes in the way we buy food. I'd like to support some local Texas farmers anyway, and I shouldn't be eating so much fast food.

-Kyle
 
according to the article on wikipedia (not always fully reliable, but it's a start) the producers invited on-screen rebuttals from Monsato, Tyson, Smithfield, Perdue, and others, but the offers were declined. all sources I've seen indicate the film, as far as it goes, presents fairly accurate information. It's got a 96 on rottentomatoes.com, which is an almost unheard of positive rating.
 
I'm glad we live in a farming community. We buy our beef from a local kid who raises it for 4H and then have a local butcher slaughter it. We get our chicken meat and eggs from chickens that we raise. We slaughter them ourselves and we have about 1/2 acre where they free-range. (Plus the chickens keep the grasshoppers off the property!)
 
Plants keep bugs away with natural pesticides & you eat plenty more of that than you do chemical ones.

I live near Salinas. You have read how people get e coli from our produce, right? Look at how many victims there are. From March to Oct, those crops are watered with our treated sewage, which probably makes them organic. But I won't touch the stuff during that period & I suggest you don't.
 
servantofone said:
Has anyone watched Food Inc.? Does anyone know if there are any trustable fact checks on the movie? I'm thinking about eating more organic now, but I'd like to think I wasn't deceived into becoming organic.

If you haven't seen it, the movie is very well made. I'm just hoping the information is honest.

www.foodincmovie.com

-Kyle
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Yea, I saw it. I would not rely on the info given. most animal activists start this crap and blow it way out of proportion.
 
creddybears said:
Yea, I saw it. I would not rely on the info given. most animal activists start this crap and blow it way out of proportion.
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Thanks, creddybears. Could you elaborate with a few more specifics? Could you give an example of one of the film's points that was blown out of proportion? And how about the stuff it says about grains and vegetables? Is it safe to trust that, since the animal activists aren't involved in those claims?
 
morriefisher said:
Plants keep bugs away with natural pesticides & you eat plenty more of that than you do chemical ones.

I live near Salinas. You have read how people get e coli from our produce, right? Look at how many victims there are. From March to Oct, those crops are watered with our treated sewage, which probably makes them organic. But I won't touch the stuff during that period & I suggest you don't.
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I miss my Prunedale! :cry:
 
spazntwitch said:
I'm glad we live in a farming community. We buy our beef from a local kid who raises it for 4H and then have a local butcher slaughter it. We get our chicken meat and eggs from chickens that we raise. We slaughter them ourselves and we have about 1/2 acre where they free-range. (Plus the chickens keep the grasshoppers off the property!)
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Here in NJ, we slaughter free-range deer (using our SUVs) but are not allowed to eat them.

morriefisher said:
...people get e coli from our produce..
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A ha! I knew it. Your big mistake was putting in our Taco bell lettuce.

spazntwitch said:
I miss my Prunedale! :cry:
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Grown men really shouldn't name their chickens.
 
diGriz said:
Grown men really shouldn't name their chickens.
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The hens don't have names, but all of the roosters are named Lester. We had one that was very aggressive and so we dubbed him Evil Lester. He was the first one slaughtered. :yesnod:
 
diGriz said:
Here in NJ, we slaughter free-range deer (using our SUVs) but are not allowed to eat them.
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I think it's allowed with a permit from the DEP Fish and Wildlife Division. Sort of akin to hunting with more traditional projectiles.
 
morriefisher said:
Plants keep bugs away with natural pesticides & you eat plenty more of that than you do chemical ones.

I live near Salinas. You have read how people get e coli from our produce, right? Look at how many victims there are. From March to Oct, those crops are watered with our treated sewage, which probably makes them organic. But I won't touch the stuff during that period & I suggest you don't.
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Watering planted fields with treated sewege is entirely different than fertilizing fields with manure before planting. If that's what you are hinting at, I think you misunderstand what organic is. The problem you mention is exactly what is wrong with our current food system, right? So I think you agree with Food Inc.
 
servantofone said:
Watering planted fields with treated sewege is entirely different than fertilizing fields with manure before planting. If that's what you are hinting at, I think you misunderstand what organic is. The problem you mention is exactly what is wrong with our current food system, right? So I think you agree with Food Inc.
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Sure, I liked that film but I liked the one about that guy who only at at McD's for 30 days better.

They take human sewage & dry it & you can buy it as a product called Milorganite for fertilizer.
 
morriefisher said:
Sure, I liked that film but I liked the one about that guy who only at at McD's for 30 days better.

They take human sewage & dry it & you can buy it as a product called Milorganite for fertilizer.
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but Milorganite is only made from Milwaukee sewage, so it's primarily beer residue.
 
People say organic is no pesticides, but that's not the case, plants have natural pesticides that's how they keep bugs away. You eat more of that than chemical pesticides.

Notice most of that e coli lettuce/produce comes from Salinas, California? Enough said.
 
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