Food Inc.Follow

I watched this movie last night. I didnt really learn anything surprising. I knew cows were force-fed corn in mass production and that this provided the birthplace and conditions for e. coli as we know it. I knew that that our diets and our health were basically controlled by the multi-national food corps. Of course who doesn't know that childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes is running rampant amongst the masses. I knew that the less your income the more dependent you're likely to be on the cheap, nutritionless food system we've allowed to be created for our country.

But still it further drove home the reality of the exploitation by the multi-nationals of the well-meant but short-sighted corn subsidies. It reinforced my disgust over how much control these same corporations have on, not only our food system but, our justice system our labor and, sadly, our law-makers.

Coincidentally I'd just read this article by a fell named Corey Robin in The Nation. While reading it I was attempting to be in agreement with the author and trying to think of 'easy-to-visualize' ways examples of how corporations exert control over the population and was having a hard time of it.

Well after watching Food Inc. I got lots of good examples of how our so-called freedoms and personal liberties are being hacked away...and not by our laws, regulations and government (at least intentionally) but by big business.

I can't, however, paint the big picture in my mind that leads to way out of this mess. How do we reign in the power of the corporation while not alienating our free economy?

If you've not seen Food Inc. you can stream it free from a variety of sites. Understand, that like any propaganda it's highly biased, however, it's easy to pick out fact from opinion.

What's for lunch?



Edited, Apr 21st 2011 7:03pm by Elinda

I think we should go all Caldari from EVE Online, and just have the corporations BE our government. Ultra-corporatocracy.


I mean, they pretty much are already. Might as well make it official.

The thing about it all is you don't have to allow your life to be run by all this. You can still find rural land and grow most of your own food and husbandry your own animals as long as you don't have like 10+ kids running around.

It comes down to convenience. If you want to change the world, make the alternative you seek more convenient or it wont gain traction. People are GD lazy.

I'm even lazier, I go in at 8:00 and leave at 5:00.

I'm wondering how humanity survived before health insurance, tract housing and electricity. Oh wait they grew their own food or ate locally grown food. Hmm.

Are you going to the grocery store or producing your own food to eat? If you're buying food from a corporation which gets its supplies from other corporations then you're doing so out of convenience. You have no mindset to "change the world" which is what the thread is about, then, because it would be less convenient.

This was the point of my prior post.

And were dead before 40.

You do realize there are like over 300 million people in this country?

Heh, that was like a torrent of indignant responses.


Go team.

BRB, Mr. Jenkins needs my help to fix the axle on his old wagon.

You attempted to ford the river.


Wait, what are we doing?

Edited, Apr 21st 2011 11:10am by Eske

Now with pictures.

Edited, Apr 21st 2011 11:15am by lolgaxe

The entire premise of the original argument is flawed and the material used to support it is agenda-based propaganda.

People are free to spend their money on raw ingredients, and could then make all of the healthy food they cared to. We have the "problems" asserted because people are too lazy to do what's necessary to ensure their health. Instead they opt for fast, pre-packaged, processed foods that have little redeeming value.

This is yet another issue that splits itself on the point of personal responsibility. It is about a growing culture that would rather see the government regulate an industry to force them to make better choices than to step up and make the right choice on their own. Not surprising in the least is that you've consumed the propaganda lock, stock, and barrel, and come here once more to foist on us the liberal clap-trap that makes up the input for any "critical thinking" you choose to engage in.

Get out of my pocket, get out of my kitchen. Libertarian.

It is that simple. When I give a crap, I buy raw ingredients and COOK. Flour, hormone riddled eggs & chicken, E coli contaminated vegetables; when I take them home, wash them, mix them together in the prescribed ratios and voila! I have a healthy meal and a happy family.

That's varus dumb. "All of my background info is crap, but it doesn't minimize my argument"? Really? That's what you're going with?

Caveat emptor. Yes, it is traditionally a property law principle, but applied to the rest of life it falls in to the "common sense" category. In a more pointed answer to your question, yes. F'uck 'em if they can't be bothered to inform themselves.