"THE Movie You Need To See This Year" . . .

[OneBlueSky]

Food, Inc.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/02/THE-Movie-You-Need-to-View-this-Year.aspx

"Food, Inc." is a horror movie for the socially conscious, the nutritionally curious and the hungry. Robert Kenner's documentary does for the supermarket what "Jaws" did for the beach. The film “marches straight into the dark side of cutthroat agri-business, corporatized meat and the greedy manipulation of both genetics and the law.”

There is no release date yet, but it should be out soon.

“Food, Inc. is a movie that's hard to shake, because days after you've seen it, you will find yourself eating something -- a hamburger, cereal out of the box, a perfectly round waxen hothouse tomato -- and realize that you have virtually no idea what it really is.”

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/02/THE-Movie-You-Need-to-View-this-Year.aspx

[Demeter]

1. Sorry, I REALLY Need to See "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"

and Star Trek's latest. Anything else is optional.

[customerserviceguy]

2. Yep, big interest here in "Trek"

I'm not that interested in seeing another Luddite movie about food, waxing about the good old days of Amish farming...

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. I reckon this is 'luddite' about food in the way that 'The Jungle' was,

or the way 'Silent Spring' was luddite about the chemical industry.

[customerserviceguy]

6. It's just that there are people

who distrust modern technology in any form. They see trans fats and high fructose corn syrup, and generalize that to everything they believe wasn't on an Amish farm.

Ever seen an episode of "Star Trek" where there were Amish farmers? Nope, they have food "replicators" that constructed things to eat out of the constituent molecules. That's the world I want to live in.

[truedelphi]

10. Unfortunately, when you get that world to live in, so do the rest of us.

Monsanto's formaldehyde filled RoundUp has already destroyed my immune system, long before GMO's requiring even more RoundUp were brought into being.

Driving beteween Lake County and Sacramento, the air smells like I am going through a factory town where Paint thinners and benzene laced products are being produced. But no,it is the food belt of California, with its arsenal of pesticides.

No wonder the obituaries contain two classes of people - those in their eighties and nineties who lived a long time on account of the discovery of penicillin, but whose formative years were spent eating organically, and those in their forties and fifties who had pesticide laced food, and air freshenr environments draining their bodies of any semblance of health.

[customerserviceguy]

13. Well, when you read the obits and see 80 and 90 year olds

you're missing the people from their cohorts who died of other things way back when. Some of it might have been due to less safe automobiles, but some was due to diseases that we've figured out how to wipe out.

As for your allegations about Roundup, a quick Google search of "roundup immune system" only produced a 1996 report on a webpage that pretty much focused on the possible harm that might occur from the way that crops would react to the stuff if it were used as an herbicide with genetically engineered crops. I know you feel that you have been harmed by it, but the woman who sits near me at work is just as certain that vaccines caused her son to be autistic, and the latest studies show poor linkage between the two things.

Modern living gets the blame for many things today, and some of it may be deserved, but more people survive to older ages, and in decent health than ever before. Frankly, if you want an example of how medical science has produced more sickly people, I offer the reduced rate of infant mortality as a possibility. We save many more premature babies at lighter birthrates than ever before, and some of those thirty and forty-somethings that you see in the obits are people who would have died soon after birth in the early part of the 20th Century.

It may even be part of the autism thing, my twin nephews are autistic, and their birth weights were a bit over two pounds apiece. We've never had so many low birth weight people surviving in the history of the world as we do now.

[FourScore]

3. I hadn't heard about this movie! Thanks for the heads up.

It's almost surprising this movie hasn't been made already. It also comes at a good time in my own life while I am re-evaluating how I shop for food and how/what I feed my kids. I love serendipidous situations. And they happen to me all the time. :)

[Javaman]

5. Read the book first. scary. nt

[Renew Deal]

7. And if you don't see that, see this

http://dragmetohell.net

:scared:

[Echo In Light]

9. Good to see Sam Raimi return to the horror genre!

[Echo In Light]

8. Thanks for the heads-up. I'm sure most here have seen The Corporation?

[cascadiance]

11. The title makes it sound like some people from "War, Inc." might have been involved?

Does it have similar "dark humor" in it?

Might we have someone like John Cusack in it?

[cascadiance]

12. I see it's in Seattle at the end of May... I also found another film "Good Food" coming to Portland

... at Cinema 21 on May 8th, which probably those wanting to see this film might also want to try and see that tells how local farming is returning to the Pacific Northwest. I've been loving going to New Seasons stores here, which the more corporate Whole Foods chain has sued trying to get the gist of how they are delivering on "grow local" strategies, etc. that they are advertising, which I think is taking advantage of the local food supply up here...

Here's the Cinema 21 schedule which has it on it...

http://www.cinema21.com/

Here's the film's web site:

http://www.goodfoodthemovie.org/

And a preview URL...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0BHrA4hG80