Day 215: "Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system."

Wow.  I thought that Inside Job was a disturbing and enraging documentary.  After I saw that I was mad for days.  Now, having watched Food, Inc. today, Inside Job now has a terrifying counterpart.  Food, Inc. is a damning and scary look at how the food on our plates has become big business, and how those businesses don't care one bit about nutrition or how unhealthy that product in the supermarkets is.  One expert in the film noted that food production ahs changed more in the last fifty years than in the previous ten thousand.  YEARS.  The overindustrialization (is that a word?  It should be.) of the growth, raising, and production of the food we eat is absolutely obscene.  I honestly had no idea of the spectrum of this problem.  The use of enzymes, drugs, steroids, manipulation, and almost anything else you can think of has been incorporated into food production.  Meat, through the use of steroids and growth hormones, is now grown and put to market in weeks now, not months.  Do you have any idea how many products, not just food either, are derived from corn?  Just corn.  Thousands.  I had no idea, at all, what was going on.  These companies are fighting to keep as much information about their products (I have a hard time thinking of it as food right now) AWAY from the public.  What they are producing is leading to the decline in the health of the country.  Sound familiar, big tobacco? 

The best thing about this movie, is it's not just "shock and eww", the filmmaker shows us how we can fight back and look for better, locally grown and raised options.  When these companies see that people aren't going to accept the crap they are shoveling out any more, change will follow.  If you want a candid look at how the food industry works, check this out.  When a company knowingly keeps the price of "fresh" produce and meats higher than the cost of cheaper, less healthy fast food options because the profit margins are better, it's time to change.  A great expose.  9/10.

See you tomorrow, and GO WATCH A MOVIE!!