Topic: Food, Inc. (Read 9239 times)

glyphic · « **on:** 15 Dec 2009, 15:00 »

Has anyone seen this? It doesn't go too deep into the insanity of our meat packing and crop production industries, but I was still filled with impotent rage after watching.

sean · « **Reply #1 on:** 18 Dec 2009, 15:50 »

saw this, uh, i think on sunday actually. i was pretty rageful too after watching it.

pretty good film i thought. touches on a bunch of things in the food industry that are fucked, like the whole thing about soy beans. really, fuck that.

michaelicious · « **Reply #2 on:** 18 Dec 2009, 16:36 »

What did it say about soy beans?

sean · « **Reply #3 on:** 18 Dec 2009, 19:26 »

long story short michael there exists a company (i can't remember their name off the top of my head, it starts with an M) that genetically modified soybeans to work with their brand of fertilizer and practically all soybean farmers bought them. the company also somehow copyrighted or somehow owns the legal rights to that gene and now has the ability to prosecute farmers for fucking seed saving by claiming they are stealing their product or something.

i could get into the specifics more if you would like (i had known about this before i watched food inc.) its really fucked up.

pilsner · « **Reply #4 on:** 18 Dec 2009, 23:16 »

The company is called Monsanto. Your description is approximately correct.

michaelicious · « **Reply #5 on:** 19 Dec 2009, 04:38 »

Isn't Monsanto lobbying to make organic farming illegal in the US?

pilsner · « **Reply #6 on:** 19 Dec 2009, 04:50 »

Yes, but only after they have assembled enough kryptonite to create a robot capable of defeating Superman.

HR 875 was a poorly drafted food safety bill that appears to have died in subcommittee. Monsanto claims it had nothing to do with the bill. Rep. R. DeLauro's husband had only tenuous ties to Monsanto, and most of the claims regarding his relationship with the firm are outright lies. This can all be confirmed by 5 minutes spent performing 3 Google searches. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to distrust Monsanto without inventing bullshit.

sean · « **Reply #7 on:** 19 Dec 2009, 18:13 »

Quote from: pilsner on 19 Dec 2009, 04:50

This can all be confirmed by 5 minutes spent performing 3 Google searches.

well i feel like a lazy piece of shit now

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #8 on:** 20 Dec 2009, 08:57 »

The problem with these types of movies is that only people who are already conscientious of what they eat are going to go watch them.

Joseph · « **Reply #9 on:** 20 Dec 2009, 16:13 »

The problem with being a progressive politician is that only people who are already progressive are going to vote for you.

glyphic · « **Reply #10 on:** 21 Dec 2009, 05:03 »

Monsanto is under the gun now.
http://www.ajc.com/business/ap-investigation-monsanto-seed-240072.html

michaelicious · « **Reply #11 on:** 21 Dec 2009, 13:42 »

Quote from: pilsner on 19 Dec 2009, 04:50

Yes, but only after they have assembled enough kryptonite to create a robot capable of defeating Superman.

HR 875 was a poorly drafted food safety bill that appears to have died in subcommittee. Monsanto claims it had nothing to do with the bill. Rep. R. DeLauro's husband had only tenuous ties to Monsanto, and most of the claims regarding his relationship with the firm are outright lies. This can all be confirmed by 5 minutes spent performing 3 Google searches. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to distrust Monsanto without inventing bullshit.

I dunno if those last two sentences were supposed to make me feel bad or anything but I was just asking a question, guy.

sean · « **Reply #12 on:** 21 Dec 2009, 15:39 »

I'm not yr guy, buddy.

abadname · « **Reply #13 on:** 21 Dec 2009, 16:01 »

I'm not your buddy, friend.

The movie is pretty cool.

tricia kidd · « **Reply #14 on:** 22 Dec 2009, 04:03 »

Fast Food Nation was a better movie.

of course it was scripted and linklater directed and it had bruce willis saying "sometimes we all gotta eat a little shit" and stuff so.

but the ending scenes at the meat packing plant made me never want to eat a hamburger ever again.

...

i had a hamburger today.

glyphic · « **Reply #15 on:** 22 Dec 2009, 06:15 »

Yeah, that movie was pretty well done. Pretty much any scene involving the meat packing plant or the workers therein made me sick and furious.

2 sick 2 furious!

pilsner · « **Reply #16 on:** 22 Dec 2009, 11:22 »

Ugh, I could not get more than 30 minutes into Fast Food Nation. The whole not exercising thing made the movie kind of absurd from a documentary aspect. It frustrated me that it could have been so much better than it was.

tricia kidd · « **Reply #17 on:** 22 Dec 2009, 18:51 »

Quote from: pilsner on 22 Dec 2009, 11:22

Ugh, I could not get more than 30 minutes into Fast Food Nation. The whole not exercising thing made the movie kind of absurd from a documentary aspect. It frustrated me that it could have been so much better than it was.

are we sure we're talking about the same movie? fast food nation doesn't actually say anything about people being overweight, it's about the meat packing industry and people who work in it. it's also more of an impartial drama than a specific preachy indictment of anyone.

which is why it's also pretty depressing, since at the end the message is pretty much "welp, we're all basically fucked."

pilsner · « **Reply #18 on:** 22 Dec 2009, 21:25 »

I am actually totally confusing it with Supersize Me, apologies. Wow, there have been a lot of movies over the past few years criticizing the hamburger making/selling industry.

I still have to see Fast Food Nation! Maybe I'll watch it in a double header with Food Inc. and then go vegan for a week...

carrotosaurus · « **Reply #19 on:** 23 Dec 2009, 07:55 »

I saw Food, Inc. in the theatre and it was pretty slammin.

Also, has anyone seen King Corn? It's a pretty great look into the inner workings corn industry filmed by two cool dudes that now have an organic farm in the back of their pickup truck in NYC. Makes you much more aware and in tune with what High Fructose Corn Syrup actually is. Oh, and it's filmed beautifully.

glyphic · « **Reply #20 on:** 23 Dec 2009, 08:48 »

Haven't seen it. Will have to add it to my Netflix queue. HFCS is EVERYWHERE.

tricia kidd · « **Reply #21 on:** 23 Dec 2009, 16:10 »

high fructose corn syrup is the worst tasting sweetener in the world. even worse than artificial sweeteners most of the time.

sucrose all the way.

RedLion · « **Reply #22 on:** 02 Jan 2010, 01:13 »

I thought this was actually fairly tastefully made. It obviously has a message and an agenda, but it doesn't mercilessly bash you over the head with it.

Also,

Quote from: StaedlerMars on 20 Dec 2009, 08:57

The problem with these types of movies is that only people who are already conscientious of what they eat are going to go watch them.

I don't think I'd agree with that. I'd like to think I'm a somewhat healthy eater (haven't been to a McDonalds or Burger King in over a year), but I'm not particularly "conscientious" of what I eat. I like to eat far too much to care too greatly about what's in the food or how it was prepared. But this caught my eye and made me resolve to change at least some of my practices. For instance, I'm trying to only buy beef that's from grass-fed cows (and I'll be damned if it doesn't taste better!)

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