Food Inc.
Posted in Food and Drink and tagged with city mama, food inc, musings of a housewife on 12/29/2009 02:01 pm by Emily
I want you to indulge me for a moment – please, please, please find and see the film Food, inc. (we found ours via Pay per View so have a look there). We just watched it and I am now inspired, repulsed and floundering in a puddle of questions. Our diet is one of the things I was thinking of changing in the new year and now, more than ever, I am keen to eat less, but better quality food. As Husbando said – I never want to buy mass produced food again. Its a terrible portrait of America and I often felt worse for the farmers and workers than the poor cows, pigs and chickens.
And don’t just listen to me – I went searching for the film after reading blog posts from two of my favourite bloggers: City Mama and Musings of a Housewife. As Stefania said – maybe our blogs can be a platform for good and for change. And on their recommendations I am going to seek out Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal as well as reading Michael Pollan’s books. I’m gearing up for a diet program in January and want to make it as truly healthy as possible.
If you’ve already seen the film has it affected you and if you’ve just seen it what did you think?
December 29th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Absolutely. It should be required reading by anyone who can afford to eat local, sustainable, REAL food.
December 29th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
I haven’t seen the film, but I hope to. I have, however, read ‘The Omnivore’s Dilemma’ by Michael Pollan, and it was amazing and eye-opening. I also really, really enjoyed ‘Animal Vegetable Miracle’ by Barbara Kingsolver and ‘The 100 Mile Diet’ by Smith and McKinnon. The last one even more so, since it was written by a pair of Vancouverites.
It really is mind-blowing to learn where our food comes from and how it’s produced. I think that any efforts to reduce the processed food you consume is only for the better. This is one big reason I love my local farmer’s market – I know what I’m buying, and where it came from.
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December 29th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
I haven’t seen it but food has been on my mind a lot lately. I want to eat better and have been considering seeing a dietician because I don’t just want to eat crap because it has less calories. I want to eat good, wholesome, good-for-me food.