to go see this week. The only thing I really have to say is "WOW" it really has made me think about what I buy and where, what I eat.
Food is really one of the few things every one has in common if you don't eat you will die pretty straight forward.
So why would you not want to see this movie:
After I left the movie theater I feel people would rather not know, and just sort of let it go by as just another movie that does not effect me.
So why see the movie:
First it will make you think which is always a good thing
Second we need to wake and realize that the food we put in our bodies needs our help, there is one part of the movie where a perfectly health 2 year old boy dies 12 days later from Kidney Failure because of E-Coli in a Hamburger, what is really sad is the company that processed the product knew of the problem three weeks before the death, and then waited another three weeks after the death to re-call the product.........really it took six weeks to re-call a deadly product.
I am diabetic for Twenty Two years, when I was in high-school there was 200 kids in my class, there was three kids with Diabetes and I lived in the Detroit Area not really the poster city for healthy eating, speed up 15 years since graduating High-school and now the studies say that 1 out of every 3 children will have some sort of diabetes and 1 out of every minority students will be effected.
It is just really sad to think there is no choice, almost every place we eat at, shop at, are controlled from a couple companies from Seed to Grocery Shelve.
Well there is a huge food movement going on in this country and even here in Las Vegas it will take time but at least the future is bright and that movement is the Slow Food USA
Thursday I will going to a farmer's market here in town along with a few friends to see what we can do.
In the meaning time go see a movie your few bucks will make start the movement.
Neat article to read off of slow food web-site
On our honeymoon last year we were in San Francisco for Slow Food Nation, the organization's first big "conference", if you will. There was a huge farmer's market, a Victory Garden they had worked on for six months before the event, panels, discussions, tastings...it was great. Ted and I participate in our local CSA (community-supported agriculture program) and go to the farmer's market every week, but the event last year really reminded me that we desperately need to be ever more vigilant about what we put in our mouths. I encourage everyone to look into CSA's and farmer's markets. I'm not quite ready to become a vegetarian, but movies like Food Inc make a good case. Instead, we are buying 1/8 of an Idaho grass-fed steer to be butchered this fall. If meat is wrong, I don't want to be right.