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appalachiablue

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2. Tx for posting. Davis realized the coming changes in food & health and enormous costs & hardships. It's tragic esp
Thu Jan 29, 2026, 12:01 PM
Yesterday

for young people. Offended Outcast is super, he's right on top of critical issues facing the nation. Well researched and written, his talks have a lot of impact. OO knows his stuff..

We need real education. Nutrition, health and fitness should be taught in schools but that will be the day. Documentaries and researchers like Michael Pollan are good sources of information esp. the film FOOD INC (2008 ) which has a new version in 2024.
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- FOOD, INC. 2, Trailer, (2024).
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- wiki, - Food, Inc. is a * 2008 American documentary film directed by Robert Kenner[1] and narrated by Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser.[5][6] It examines corporate farming in the United States, concluding that agribusiness produces food that is unhealthy in a way that is environmentally harmful and abusive of both animals and employees.

The film received positive reviews and was nominated for several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature.

* A sequel, Food, Inc. 2 was released on April 12, 2024.

- Summary. The film examines the modern food industry, and raises alarms about both the industrial production of meat (chicken, beef, and pork) and the modern methods used to grow grains and vegetables (primarily corn and soybeans). It discusses the dominance of the American food market by a handful of huge corporations, which work to keep consumers from being aware of how their food is produced and are largely successful in their efforts to avoid such things as stronger food safety laws, the unionization of their workers, and additional food labeling regulations.

These companies promote unhealthy food consumption habits among the American public and then supply cheap, inadequately safety-tested, increasingly transgenic food that is produced and transported using methods that exploit livestock, employees, farmers, and the environment and use large amounts of petroleum products.[1][7] Eating organic, locally-grown food that is in season and reading product labels are offered as solutions, and the rapid growth of the organic food industry seen as providing hope for the future...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food,_Inc.

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