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Originally Posted by rhetorical
I think if you read Dilemma first, then see Food Inc. it will become clear. The film has a few melodramatic flaws and a few shock value images but if you stay the course it improves. Like all opinion pieces, it is propoganda. But if you are interested in the subject, like anything else, your opinion becomes a sum total of a variety of sources and this film is a decent toe in the water.
If FFN freaked you out, I think Dilemma will goes deeper into the root causes.
An interesting point made in Food Inc., is the freedom you lose when four or five companies control just about everything you eat, and most of that is corn based and through high fructose corn syrup which is primarily responsible for the very serious diabetes epidemic in the Western world. Five years ago, I didn't know anyone with diabetes. Now I know five people ranging from 27 to 53 years old. Scarey but preventable.
These companies fight tooth and nail to shut down labelling laws. That takes away your freedom to choose what you eat when you can't find out where your food originates or if it has been genetically modified.
I could go on, but the book and many like it do a pretty good job if you read between the obvious spin.
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I don't really give a shit about GMOs - there's a lotta noise about it, and has been, but frankly: Hi, read some Mendel. This isn't new stuff, and nature does it anyhow. If we dropped the chemical fertilisers and pesticides 'n all of that, we wouldn't even need to sweat how to make veggies that evade cutworm. 'Cos guess what? Tomatoes will BREED THEMSELVES to do it!
NEAT! Lookit nature GO.
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Sorry for the hijack, but GAH, that bugs me.
I do most of my shopping "around the edges" of the store, 'cos I am a fan of doing things from the start - that way I know what's in my food.