Food inc.

What struck me the most was how little say we have in how are foods are produced, i mean the USDA basically has no power, and the food companies have to many protections and to much money to do anything against them. (this also made me think of idiocracy, you know when brawndo just bought every major company).
 A concept i agree completely with, that was in food inc, is that some families eat unhealthy and when they want to buy healthier food it's to expensive. Unlike fast food which is very cheap.
Well the only "solution" that comes to mind is basically just raise money or cut bills on the house, like the electricity bill, the water bill and other bills.

 Question: What do your parents or family members think?
Reactions to food inc.

 Dad reaction (in his words): i was disgusted and frightened. The fact that our food supply is controlled by a handful of companies shows me that we are in a precarious position. reliance on a few crops, soy beans and corn mostly, put us at risk of famine, should something attack those crops. The Irish potato famine comes to mind.

that however was not the worst of it. The fact that Monsanto owns the genetics of one of the largest crops in this country, and that they can prevent a farmer from saving his seeds, is an example of evil in our modern world. 

The fact that our Government has put the job of regulating, and protecting us from these companies in the hands of men and women who have worked, or are still working, for the very companies that they are supposed to regulate left me with a sense of despair and betrayal.

There were a few rays of hope. the women trying to get "Kevin's Law" passed, and the farmer dedicated to farming the proper way, (as nature intends and support his efforts), were a bit of light in a dark subject.
I hope we can bring these companies to heel before the problems caused by agribusiness become irreversible.


Mom's reaction (in her own words):  I have known about some of this within the food industry, for years. I'm very sad about the treatment of farm animals and the conditions they live in.
So many people can't afford to buy organic because it is really expensive.  I know that the only way things will really change is if we as a nation stop buying GMO product and just buy "natural" and organic and that can't happen unless the prices go down on those foods.
I personally try hard to buy foods with high quality ingredients, and fresh vegetables in season.  I might add tho, that our grocery bill is the biggest expenditure for our family.
As depressing as the KPBS program was, I see hope in the food industry because there are Farmers Markets, Peoples, Whole Foods and Henry's providing better quality produce, meats and dry goods.
The public needs to be educated and this special was an eye opener and will rejuvenate me to look even closer at what I buy.

Dialectic Journal

Quote:

"If you raise your hand and say, 'Gee, Ms. Smith, I haven't understood a single word you've said


all day,' Ms. Smith is going to hate you. If you raise your hand and say, 'Gee, Ms. Smith, I haven't

understood a single word you've said all week,' Ms. Smith is going to hate you five times as much. And

if you raise your hand and say, 'Gee, Ms. Smith, I haven't understood a single word you've said all year,'

Ms. Smith is going to pull out a gun and shoot you."
 
 
 
What this quote makes me think of is, (shudder), my 8th grade social studies "experience" so to speak.
Mainly it was my teacher... she was the meanest, shrewdest, nastiest short lady I ever layed eyes on!
Except her name wasn't Ms. Smith, her name was... well i can't say, me and my freinds swore to never say her name, ever, thats how evil she was! lol. Well i'm not going to go into detail about why she was, but i can tell you a few things of why everyone and i do mean everyone (even the principal) hated, well not really, lets say everyone "disliked" her: For one thing, if you wanted to go to the bathroom at any time during class, shed make you stay after school for 25 minutes, or after class, whichever she thought you "needed" as she called it. And if she did make you stay after class, shed let you go after the 25 minutes were up and then she wouldn't give you a late pass to explain why you were late to you other class, ugg that made me so mad!
Another reason is that she gave everyone detention, even for the stupidest things, like getting up to sharpen your pencil, even after she said you could, im serious on this. she had this weird religion... pretty sure it was called GiveDetentionOutToEveryoneIcan-ism! lol or G.D.O.T.E.I-ism for short :)
 
Ya and i'm pretty sure she would shoot you also if you said that you hadn't followed anything she said all year, and then she'd dig up you body after the funeral and put a big fat "F" on your dead forehead.
Na im kidding..
or am I?