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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.4766400973
EAN: 9781586486945
Edition: 1
ISBN: 1586486942
Label: PublicAffairs
Manufacturer: PublicAffairs
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: May 04, 2009
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date: May 04, 2009
Studio: PublicAffairs
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Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as “more than a terrific movie—it’s an important movie.” Aided by expert commentators such as Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, the film poses questions such as: Where has my food come from, and who has processed it? What are the giant agribusinesses and what stake do they have in maintaining the status quo of food production and consumption? How can I feed my family healthy foods affordably?
Expanding on the film’s themes, the book Food, Inc. will answer those questions through a series of challenging essays by leading experts and thinkers. This book will encourage those inspired by the film to learn more about the issues, and act to change the world.
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I found this odd assortment of essays rather unsatisfying and couldn't settle down to read it properly. Which was odd, because when I picked up 'The Face on Your Plate' (Jeffrey Moussiaeff Masson) to flick through it, I couldn't put it down. Likewise 'In Defence of Food' (Michael Pollan) another un-putdownable read. Perhaps it would be more relevant to American readers.The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food
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This is a movie that informs the public of a inconvenient truth. This is a very saddening movie, what is the point of telling a person of a bad country when everyone knows it's happening? This movie shows torture of animals and you may lose your appetite. Overall, very disturbing movie.
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Sometimes I have to read this book in increments; it's so truthful and eye-opening that the reality of it is frustrating beyond an immediate FIX.
While watching the DR. OZ show a few weeks ago, he introduced a young couple who had tragically lost their 18 mo. son to E. Coli from a hamburger he innocently and trustingly ate.
Sad beyond measure.
The book is an honest eye-opener.
Genie
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You will be shocked at the effects factory farming is having on the safety of our food. This book is most effective after viewing the film; however, it is an incredible eye-opener. It expands on topics seen in the film like genetic modification of seeds and the ramifications of this process. You will also learn more about the treatment of immigrant workers in this country and will soon understand why no Americans want to do the work. TO add insult to injury you will be blown to frustration over the politics involved. If you eat food and you think you are 100% safe under our food safety policies, you need to see the film and read this book.
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Picture a sheppard dog punching out a time clock(our fathers' generation). Now the guard is changing - our generation is going to have the sheep(the people) protected by... wait/he's punching in the time clock/WOW! He's back dating it!!! ...(ZOOM IN)... It's a Wolf in government's clothing.
There are three parts to this superb compilation of writers who are intrinsic/intimate to the inner/outer workings in the incipient indusrialization of our food: Part one/THE FILM, Part two/INSIDE THE FOOD WARS, Part three/WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.
The best way to describe it (other than it digs down into the bare bones of this dirty business) is the way the film maker got involved himself; with the help of Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollen, and many others, as he describes in his chapter: Exploring the Corporate Powers Behind the Way We Eat: The Making of FOOD, INC.
He tells of setting out to make a film about food & then inexplicably, runs into an iron curtain separating him from seeing where the food comes from?. So he decides to: matter-of-fact state when companies(many household names)refuse to let the public know what they are in fact buying.
He finds sickness from contaminated food on the rise, as lobbying power cripple efforts to police the industry/a matter of public safety.
He finds that although the government provides inspectors to protect consumers, their authority is waning as the government gives greater responsibility to self-regulation.
Unfortunately, the film he set out to make is turning into a film about unchecked corporate power. He is fortunate to expose it. Unfortunate, because it is ipso facto.
He finds the "Food Disparagement" laws that are meant to scare the bejeezus out of you. Oprah Winfrey didn't take this laying down/ but even she had to watch her p's & q's.
Robin Maynard of the U.K. Soil Association points out, the same amount of grain needed to fill a tank of a sports utility vehicle could be used to feed a person for an entire year. This is not fair or a sustainable trade. But according the the U.S. Government there are only two kinds of fair: The State Fair and The County Fair.
There are no high roads to globalization only lower & lower roads leading to rock bottom prices. This situation is not sustainable, nor is it accidental. In large measure, it can be traced back to government policies designed to produce the very system that now distorts agrucultural/production in this country.
Whether simply greed, deregulation, outright theft/fraud/blackmailing by financial institutions of their respective governments, the combined effects of the food & financial crisis will continue to unfold in the coming months and years. The bottom 3 billion poor will take the intial hit as well as the continued extermination of the middle class.
The ethanol boondoggle, stock market/commodities speculation/manipulation lead to the crisis of the global food price peak in June 2008. These high food prices have created tremendous pressures in the lives of the poor, for whom basic food can consume 2/3 of their income.
This book is information rich(some stomachs may be unable to digest) in the topic of food as it plays out in today's battle of good vs evil.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!!!!
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