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Highly recommend watching Food Inc.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/
http://www.foodincmovie.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food,_Inc.

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http://www.johnrobbins.info/blog/the-pig-farmer/

Food Inc I watched it last year and made the switch to eating about 95% organic ever since. I tell people we are in the FOOD MATRIX right now, everyone is, when I go to a normal grocery store now all I see are the green 1 and 0s of the matrix code on the isle shelves, except instead of 1s and 0s they are processed corn, soy, and wheat lol. If people only knew, or cared to know. Watch this movie and you will know some of it, its sad, but you can help change it. Sadly it takes a long time as the mass market of buying is the uneducated, and getting this message to them is very hard.

You might want to see the film Food inc. which will give some background about Monsato and the rest of the "modern" food industry. The funniest thing is that in their response to the film Monsato even directly admits they require farmers saving seed to provide "samples for testing". That's right; if you have nothing to do with Monsato, you still have a duty to provide them with samples of your seeds so that they can be sure you haven't "infringed their intellectual property rights".

"Blockbusters" will always be the equivalent of fast food. Made as cheap as possible, trying to be flashy to get as many people in and out the door.

If you want stuff with a story, you're going to have to find stuff that was either limited release or maybe didn't even make it to the states. Look at what has won Sundance or Cannes, usually movies with good stories and not enough $$ for big effects.

Apple trailers usually has trailers for independent films as well.

You may have to resort to "piracy" to find some of it too. On a whim I grabbed and watched The Man from Earth. it was everything Hollywood was not. A story, thought provoking, almost everything was shot in a single house, NO Fx.

The guy that made it even thanked pirates for raising his movie's profile.. I sent the guy $20 over paypal and I know that there wasn't any hollywood accounting keeping it from him either.

Heck, not all Documentaries are super politically slanted or as boring as the stuff you sat through in grade school. 420 The Movie and Bigger Stronger Faster, Food, Inc, and The Corporation were all entertaining AND thought provoking.

http://www.foodincmovie.com/. I think I remember watching it covered on that documentary. It is stupid how little attention this issue gets and then Monsanto manages to get their own shill on BBC. Plus, you(not to single you out though) prove that many people are still not informed about how this company does business. A lot of people here hates software patents. I definitely think this IP is worse.

Put the cows indoors?

It's not like the MegaFarms actually use grass to feed the cows. Given how they grow chickens, I'm surprised that cows aren't moved indoors with artificial light.

Food, Inc is an interesting movie.

We do Chick-fil-A. Does that count as crap food?

Depends on your definition of crap food. Using a standard value meal as a guide, original chicken sandwich, fries, and a soft-drink, you are looking at about 1,000 calories: 430 for the sandwich, 430 for the fries, and in excess of 100 for the drink. While I will admit that their fare is better than the competition, it is by no means good food*. Following are the nutritional pages for reference:

• Breakfast Items
• Classics
• Condiments
• Desserts
• Dressings
• Drinks
• Salads
• Side Items
• Wraps

* Michael Pollan and others may even disagree that it is even food.

Now for my shameless plug,

Watch PBS this Wed. night at 7pm CST for a show called "Food, Inc." It's an excellent movie and yes, it will piss you off even further about Monsanto and their practices.

http://www.foodincmovie.com/

Yep. It is called "Food, Inc."

I find it interesting that this popped up the day after I watched the movie "Food Inc." If you think this is disturbing, you NEED to watch the movie ...

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tinfoil hat on

But, if the insecticide components increase crop yield per acre while reducing costs, and don't cause any provable human deaths in the current business quarter, then it's all good for the shareholders, many of whom are also heavily invested in the biomedical companies who are diligently working on treatments for the syndromes brought on by these foods.

tinfoil hat off

See also: Food, Inc. available on Netflix to watch instantly.

People who eat meat at fast food joints are consuming (albeit in small portions) sterilized faeces and ground up other humans.

citation needed!

Sir —

With respect, the publicly available documentation of my assertion is extensive.

Government statistics, e.g.:
* The USDA in a 1996 study found that at meat processing plants, "78.6 percent of the ground beef contained microbes ... spread primarily by fecal material."

Articles, e.g.:
* Fast Food Nation (book review)

Documentaries, e.g.:
* Food, Inc.

Websites, e.g.: SustainableTable.org: Slaughterhouses and Processing

Books, e.g.: Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry (Hardcover)

Google "slaughterhouse fecal matter", and related terms.

I'm surprised anyone would ask for a citation for this; I assumed it would be common knowledge.