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- 17999, on 07/20/2009, -2/+17"If man made it, don't put it in your body."
- Jack LaLanne
"Bratwurst! Om nom nom nom!"
- Me - kitsua, on 07/20/2009, -1/+13Food, Inc. looks great. The kind of film you lend out to people, like The Corporation or The Power of Nightmares or The Century of the Self. Hope it lives up to it's subject's importance.
- vsujohn2, on 07/20/2009, -4/+15I bet they have the best sausage parties there.
- inactive, on 07/20/2009, -0/+9"If it's something, put it in my body."
- Belladonna - JimSwarthow, on 07/20/2009, -0/+7like a car wreck, I want to see the film but I’m scared to see the film
- L0NER, on 07/20/2009, -0/+7Paging Abe Froman
- nyjets21, on 07/20/2009, -1/+7I understand why you, or any logical thinking person would feel this way. I studied the mega farm system and have also studied how it is different in countries like Brazil. I am currently living in Brazil and the difference here is visible and tangible. Brazilians eat an exorbitant amount of cheese and bread. These two products, in America, don't exactly correlate with good health. In Brazil, the affect these foods have on the general population is extremely different because the food is locally sourced and lacks harmful chemical additives. Additives added either to the cows during gestation or to their dairy products afterwards. The difference really is stunning. Of course good eating habits and exercise work anywhere on the planet, but high fructose corn syrup, among others, is literally killing America.
- Foda, on 07/20/2009, -0/+5I was just thinking that. It's not the food's fault, it's the people eating it. Good exercise and a good diet are the key to a low weight...
- diggopolous, on 07/20/2009, -0/+5From the headline I thought that they were going to describe a typical IT department.
- inactive, on 07/20/2009, -0/+4It was ok - there were a few points where I felt like they were leaving out information just to support their side of the argument, but I suppose that's to be expected. It surprisingly had a lot of good things to say about Walmart.
- tomarocco, on 07/20/2009, -0/+4Soylent Green
- Harelip, on 07/20/2009, -4/+8The cause of widespread obesity and diabetes is greedy people eating nothing but huge amounts of that food, not the fact the food exists.
- celotil, on 07/20/2009, -0/+3At the mention of Monsanto getting a web site I did a search and took a peek.
Is anyone else reminded of that company, United Northfield (U-North), from the film, Michael Clayton?
I watched the little video on the front page, monsanto.com, and got chills. - lisaawesome, on 07/20/2009, -0/+3This is the beauty of the internet. You can live in ***** Iowa and still have access to films that would never play in a theatre near you.
- DirtyVicar, on 07/20/2009, -0/+3We could use about 20 or 30 more sausage jokes.
- Mike17102, on 07/23/2009, -0/+3But having fruit with more sugar makes it even more nutrient rich. You would need to eat less of them to get your correct intake for the day.
And breeding the food to be more to our liking is nothing new, we have been doing that for eons. Hell we invented corn as we know it. - Mike17102, on 07/20/2009, -0/+3The ***** it is. Repeating this over and over wont make it anything but ***** propaganda.
Fast food isnt cheap, but most veggies are. Try not buying the overpriced organic *****, or some rare root flown in from Mabaifaswfa on the back of a griffon.
Lettuce is cheap. Green peppers are cheap. Onions are super cheap.
Oh and btw, frozen veggies are the same ***** thing they just dont taste as good. Is it really news that being poor sucks? - Mike17102, on 07/20/2009, -2/+5What horse *****.
We have the best and safest food supply that humans have EVER had. People are supposed to get fat when they eat to much, thats how we survived not having food in history. A steady supply of endless food is not what we evolved with.
This organic nonsense is just the newest marketing scheme to part fools with their money, and I am not shocked it gets so many users on this site.
Wanna know why you are fat? Because you eat to much and do to little. Get off the couch fattie, go for a run. I am fat too, and I know damn well why. - ventg4fun, on 07/20/2009, -0/+3jinif: I agree with your second paragraph that we have become sedentary and gluttonous with overeating, and it's a problem, but I think that more than enough evidence has been published about hfcs. Many independent studies have been done. More and more of it is added to more and more foods every year - And we're seeing an increase in type 2 diabetes in children as young as 3 years old. Something is very wrong with this picture.
Processed foods which have NO need for hfcs (and didn't use to have it) now have so much of it in the product, one can actually taste the sweetness (i.e. bbq sauces and tomato marinara type sauces. I won't by either one anymore just for that reason - they're too sickly sweet for me - I learned to make my own). - harry8227, on 07/20/2009, -0/+3Yeah that makes a lot of sense put the blame everywhere but where it belongs...right dead center in your lap. What the industry puts out does not cause obesity, what cause obesity is to much hand to mouth movements. You can make your own decisions as to what to eat and how much. I suppose you want government to do that for ya to huh?
- appleofdischord, on 07/20/2009, -1/+4REALLY?
- netant, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2Americans had the same poor eating habits in the 1970's that they did in the 1990's. The difference is HFCS use. That's when the weight explosion occurred, and people were not getting massively richer, on average.
- nyjets21, on 07/20/2009, -4/+6I understand why any logical thinking person would feel health is the individuals own fault for poor eating habits. While true, please understand that there are also outside circumstances that create a societal problem. I studied the mega farm system and have also studied how it is different in countries like Brazil. I am currently living in Brazil and the difference here is visible and tangible. Brazilians eat an exorbitant amount of cheese and bread. These two products, in America, don't exactly correlate with good health. In Brazil, the affect these foods have on the general population is extremely different because the food is locally sourced and lacks harmful chemical additives. Additives added either to the cows during gestation or to their dairy products afterwards. The difference really is stunning. Of course good eating habits and exercise work anywhere on the planet, but high fructose corn syrup, among others, is literally killing America.
- jba68, on 07/20/2009, -1/+3you actually pay taxes on certain prepared foods. You won't pay taxes on food such as fresh veggies and other staples.... So in the long run it is cheaper, and tastier to prepare your own meals.
If you plan ahead it can be just as easy. - FredFredrickson, on 07/20/2009, -2/+4Sounds like a total sausage fest.
- MrShreddington, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2Yes people should choose to eat better but the companies cramming food full of HFCS, trans fats, or refined flour aren't helping anybody...
- 3tcp, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2FTA: I don't think the food industry is any different than tobacco.
buried - weasel237, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2Stupid title, but this sort of film should be required viewing for anyone who even occasionally eats this sort of cheap processed food. True, no one forces you to eat it, but the truth is anyone who is facing hard times right now can get a lot of calories for not a lot of money because of how inexpensive it is. It's time to stop trusting large corporations that only care about the bottom line to feed our us, and honestly once you try eating local fresh produce and non factory farm meat, you'll never want to go back. It's worth paying a little extra money for food that you know where it came from, and that tastes a hell of a lot better.
I doubt this will get nearly as many digs as someone posting a bacon sculpture, or a I love meat bumper sticker, but it's good to see this on the front page of Digg. For an ever better source for where our food actually comes from I would highly recommend The Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan. - Harelip, on 07/20/2009, -4/+6It isn't cheaper, it's just easier. Most fresh vegetables are ridiculously cheap.
- KimmyGibbler, on 07/20/2009, -4/+6It's much cheaper to eat crap like doughnuts and fast food than fresh vegetables and lean cuts of meat (as opposed to ground beef and sausage). Food stamps go much farther when used to purchase cheap ***** food and poor people have higher rates of obesity than the rich for this reason.
- enevitable, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2As far as the fresh vegetables are concerned, go to your local farmers market. Everything there is 1/2-1/10 the price of your local grocery store/wal-mart.
I slapped myself when I realized I could buy half a years worth of vegetables and freeze them for less then the cost of one meals worth at a local store.
And I'm definitely not a health nut, just a starving grad student. - jinif, on 07/20/2009, -1/+3I don't get what the great tragedy here is. We live in a society that is so rich and decadent, that even the poor have easy enough access to food that they can easily get fat. What other society has been this successful?
Obesity is for most people a choice, brought on by consuming too many calories and lack of exercise, not the food itself. - tamahome2, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2Could we really feed everybody with local farms though?
Btw, that website kills my iphone.
They should put that movie on Hulu or Youtube to reach more people. - netant, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2@jinif
1) You are apparently IGNORANT about how food is processed in the US.
2) You should realize the food industry has a vested interest in SUPPRESSING dissemination of information which adversely affects its profit margin. Sure, you can cut out a pesticide or a growth hormone when the public refuses to buy your product. But even when catering to the public, the business loses money because it has to switch to a more expensive methodology to produce its food. Even mere removal of practice will result in reduced production yields, and that affects profits.
3) The bovine growth homone effects are well known. But scientists don't have the money to independently fun a 10 year project to study the effects of using a hormone. And the state and federal gov't, which does have the money, has to choose between protecting their citizen's health, or the profits of the agrocompany that pays for its re-election campaign. I'll leave it to you to figure out who wins. The best that independent scientific research can do is show an "indication" or "correlation" of chemical use and its probable effect.
For me, its really simple. 60 years ago, lots of little girls looked like little girls with no rack. 40 years later, you see 12 year olds drinking lots of milk, sporting a full rack, and a higher incidence of breast cancer when those women hit 30. Its not rigorously scientific, but I'm certain the food industry is happy to shorten my life expectancy to increase its profit margin. Screw them. - blofeld9999, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2I thought this was going to be an article about San Jose. All you Bay Area men know what I'm talking about.
- Mike17102, on 07/23/2009, -0/+2I love you simple minded band wagon jumping little fools, and so do the people that market stuff like "Organic". Its nothing more than this generations "fat free". But feel free to keep paying more for it, its like a tax on being retarded.
As for the proof, take a look at the bellies of the people around you. We seem to be eating damn well to me. - Mike17102, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2Nope, not even close.
We use large farms because its cheaper and more productive. There is a reason the garage down the street from you isnt building new cars for you. The same applies here. - viol999, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2They have factories in P-town?
- ArmchairAthlete, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2Yea, it has nothing to do with poor personal food choices and personal responsibility. Since all of us are obese and none of us choose to exercise, right?
- solid12345, on 07/20/2009, -1/+2Somewhat, you are definitely right, the whole organic thing is a scam, medieval humans were eating moldy bread, rotted vegetables and meat and other nasty things, even the pesticides we put on food is still safer overall than what we used to eat.
However one place our food is worse is we have farmed our crops to the point where they are not as nutrient rich as they used to be, selecting size over quality. For example, fruit 1,000 years ago would have been much less sweet and tart and be healthier for you and not as full of sugar. - netant, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1The trans fats use will eventually go away. The few foods that use it, well, you can just avoid eating them. There's nothing inherently wrong with refined flour (unless you suffer from some sort of digestive disorder), its just less nutritive. HFCS is the big Satan. That is not going away, because its 10x cheaper than using cane sugar. I don't know how to get the food industry to use less of it, other than boycotting ALL processed food.
What really bugs me is the freaking sodium content in food. Yeah, we like salt, but we don't like KILLING ourselves with sodium consumption, even when its possible they may attract a few more sales. Just "undersalt" the product, and let the 10% who desire more use table salt. - netant, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1Unfortunately, there is no body sensor that says, "I need more vitamin B, lets tell the body it needs to eat more". Its just plain calorie addiction. People are trained to eat until sated, rather than eat a set amount. Juicing up food with 1000x more HFCS calories doesn't help matters.
- ventg4fun, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1enevitable: Depends on where you live. In my area, farmers markets charge about twice what the grocery stores do for the same produce, but they are still very popular because the quality is so much better and the food is locally grown. But in recent years during the summer months, the grocery stores are stocking some kinds locally grown produce and competing with our farmers markets...
- Mike17102, on 07/23/2009, -0/+1Yes, that is very much so an agenda.
If you want to do it to support your local economy, by all means. Just dont kid yourself into thinking that you are doing a favor for anyone but your local farmers by doing it. More often than not it has a higher impact to the planet than large scale farms. - netant, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1@niftyg
You're also distorting the picture. The poor aren't becoming obese in larger numbers PURELY from eating fast food. That's because fast food is relatively expensive compared to home prepared food. They're getting fat because they have to eat cheaper foodstuffs like macaroni and cheese, bread, and soda (cheaper in some instances than bottled water). Its the HFCS supplementation (particularly in cheap food) that is causing the increase in obesity. - inactive, on 07/21/2009, -0/+1I did right after, it wasn't very graphic and didn't cover anything entirely shocking.
- Mike17102, on 07/20/2009, -1/+2AKA spread your false propaganda in an effort to further your anti-corporate agenda.
- nyjets21, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1Netant thank you for that. I am glad you brought up the female breast example. Jinif, I understand that maybe you have not heard of the things I mention, but when you take the asinine tone that because YOU, the knower of all, have not heard of this, it simply cannot be true. Let's have a lesson shall we?
There are many ways to run tests on hfcs and that is the main problem. As Netant pointed out, funding for this type of research is extremely costly, and if you are in the meat industry extremely problematic. Forget even testing its affects on cows, their meat or even their dairy products. There is also a problem related to the cows urine. And, in these mega farms of over 10,000 animals, the excretion run-off is enormous. These chemicals get into the ground and begin impacting other parts of the ecosystem as well. Farms with vegetables as well as the water table are being affected and impacted in ways that are still too hard to determine.
The problem is serious and your skepticism and arrogance are simply frustrating. - Mike17102, on 07/23/2009, -0/+1Like I said, try not buying the myth that is "organic food" and it is cheaper. Over paying for a marketing trick doesnt mean that something is expensive. GE crops are fine. Pesticides are fine.
Or try frozen, they are just ***** fine. - Mike17102, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1You mean a mindless propaganda piece full of half truths and false science designed to scare the uneducated and help ***** push their agenda?
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