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Food, Inc. (2009)
#25re: Food, Inc. (2009)
Posted: 1/30/10 at 10:49pmI'm currently reading the book "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" by Barbara Kingsolver. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in this topic. The book profiles her family moving to Virginia, and only eating locally (i.e., they know the person who grew it or raised it). A lot of nutritional, moral, and ecological benefits come from eating locally, and it explains it all in this book. I've recently cut out cows and pigs, but I still eat chicken at fish for now. Eventually, I'd like to be vegetarian.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
#26re: Food, Inc. (2009)
Posted: 1/30/10 at 11:29pm
I stopped eating chicken four months ago. And if anyone ever saw that video about how KFC kills their chickens - well, heartbreaking.
I rarely crave fish, but occasionally I do crave a juicy hamburger, so I don't know if I can ever be veg.
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#27re: Food, Inc. (2009)
Posted: 1/31/10 at 8:59amThe movie was very well done--I was actually recommending it to a friend last night. I was surprised that the director wasn't a vegetarian--which made the movie's message seem even more powerful. It's really not about convincing people to go vegetarian--but just to make smarter decisions when buying food for their families. I'd like to watch it again (it's been 2 or 3 months since I watched it).
"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#28re: Food, Inc. (2009)
Posted: 1/31/10 at 10:39am
I have been a vegetarian for 6 years now, and whenever people ask me I always have stated it it because of the abhorrent practices of the food industry. The typical response is either blank stares or some comment about how they're going to eat a juicy porterhouse.
To each their own. It just came down to my knowing that I didn't have the power change the practices of factory farming but I sure as hell didn't have to contribute to and support the industry by purchasing their products.
"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. "
--Sueleen Gay
#29re: Food, Inc. (2009)
Posted: 2/1/10 at 12:09pmThat family is what has stayed with me most about the film. I assumed anyone who went to Burger King was either uninformed (like I used to be) or just didn't believe or care how bad it is. This hard working family would like to buy the broccoli, but they don't have many choices. Terrible.
"It ain't no myst'ry
If it's politics or hist'ry
The thing you gotta know is
Ev'rything is show biz" - Mel Brooks
#30re: Food, Inc. (2009)
Posted: 2/1/10 at 12:17pm
If anyone saw Oprah last week when she featured the film, she talked about that family and it was really upsetting.
The movie definitely changed the way I've been eating and what I've been buying. Unfortunately with my income right now I'm not able to buy the grass fed beef or the other foods I'd now like to. But I have made several large changes for the time being and I remember what they said, that you vote three times a day.
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