Food Inc.

mctex · Guru

RE: Food Inc.

daisy · Guru

Juni wrote:

daisy wrote:

CoffeeQueen wrote:

I must sound very insensitive, but I am running out of compation.

You know my grandparents were from Poland and had zero money. They always had a huge garden and grew half their food. Why do we not do that now?

We need to just face that we are a lazy generation that wants everything when we want it. The idea of growing and waiting for something must seem so silly to most people. If you are that poor and really want to feed your family, would you not do this?

We need to bring back some of the old work ethics, home made items, community.

I am going to knit all my work clothes now,lol. I crack myself up, but I am serious in the sense we need to take some control and credit for our own choices.

my fear of radon and snakes gets in my way- LMAO.

i agree in general with what you guys (you and juni) are saying - education is KEY, and people need to take responsibility.
the prob is the addictive behaviors too though. the more crap you eat, the more you eat. it's like a dependency - still no excuse, but really hard to break the cycle when there are so many other stressors in their lives. it's like a classic cycle and so hard to put yourself in their place when it really is a totally different world. it's so hard to reach the individual family - if the government would deal with this on a policy level, more than half the work would be done. (not that that's an "easy" solution -- but might be more efficient than depending on extremely stressed individuals to make the changes).

juni i agree - huge flat screens and then complaining about a power bill. stuff like this makes me nuts - especially when it's so easy to just do without some of these things.
our flatscreen is waiting till our house is alarmed (occurring as we speak!!) and the basement is de-molded. it's totally priorities - and we dont have a ton of wiggle room budget wise.
cracking up about knitting work clothes - rachel's teacher just told me that rachel told her that i was going to knit her a "cat suit" for halloween - LMAO. her teacher actually just asked me to bring in all my knit dolls - rachel is so proud of them and brings them to school everyday - so cute.
i just nearly drooled on the macrobiotic woman's knit boots at preschool. i'm losing it.

The thing is though - I get an opportunity to reach the "individual family" and guess what? 99% of them don't show up to help themselves. I know this is generalized but we bring in nutritionists, financial planners, etc. etc. FREE OF CHARGE to them to educate them and they don't come. They can come meet with a nutritionist ONE ON ONE, totally work out a plan for their family and they don't. So, yes I agree that the government can only look at it in the big picture but we are federally funded and equipped to give individual families one on one services but there is only so much you can do, kwim? It is beyond frustrating. We've even done healthy meals on a budget. So, yeah, it's hard.

ug, yeah i can see why that must be really frustrating (to say the least).

mctex · Guru

CoffeeQueen wrote:

Anyone see it? What did ya think? It is available on Amazon right now for 9.99 for Oprah people. You have to get a code I believe from her web page maybe. It is very interesting. You get a free download with buying it.

Did anyone catch the topic on Oprah today on it? It touched on this and where our food comes from.

I have been really researching food as of late with my new found allergy issues. I already have gone mostly organic and now think I am going to do strictly grass fed beef and chicken. I am cutting down on meat too.

I am floored at the amount of antibiotics used in the meat industry.

For all you Chipolte lovers. They are totally grass fed meats used there and all things are fresh besides the corn. Great company to support!

We rented it off iTunes last night.

I thought it was pretty interesting from the economics of sugar POV.

We've been buying grass-fed/free range when I can find it for philosophical reasons. (I don't mind paying extra for chicken to know it's had a decent life. I suppose this is why I find the recent barrage of health threads much more compelling than the barrage of coupon threads we had before it, LOL!) I feel even better about that decision after watching the movie.

To me, I think the biggest take-away from the movie is how the government needs to stop subsidizing the corn industry. Of course, given the impact that would have to my native land, I can see that it's a far more complicated issue than it would seem. (But ultimately, I think the subsidies need to stop, even though it would mean economic disaster for a handful of Midwestern states.)

I will say that I would have an ethical problem taking a marketing job for a consumer packaged goods company these days. What's interesting about that statement is that when you have the educational background that I do (undergrad marketing/mba marketing) that job is considered the best/most prestigious you can get (the "best" jobs the marketing folks came out of my program with were for Frito Lay). All the more reason I need to find a new career, I guess...

daisy · Guru

mctex wrote:

CoffeeQueen wrote:

Anyone see it? What did ya think? It is available on Amazon right now for 9.99 for Oprah people. You have to get a code I believe from her web page maybe. It is very interesting. You get a free download with buying it.

Did anyone catch the topic on Oprah today on it? It touched on this and where our food comes from.

I have been really researching food as of late with my new found allergy issues. I already have gone mostly organic and now think I am going to do strictly grass fed beef and chicken. I am cutting down on meat too.

I am floored at the amount of antibiotics used in the meat industry.

For all you Chipolte lovers. They are totally grass fed meats used there and all things are fresh besides the corn. Great company to support!

We rented it off iTunes last night.

I thought it was pretty interesting from the economics of sugar POV.

We've been buying grass-fed/free range when I can find it for philosophical reasons. (I don't mind paying extra for chicken to know it's had a decent life. I suppose this is why I find the recent barrage of health threads much more compelling than the barrage of coupon threads we had before it, LOL!) I feel even better about that decision after watching the movie.

To me, I think the biggest take-away from the movie is how the government needs to stop subsidizing the corn industry. Of course, given the impact that would have to my native land, I can see that it's a far more complicated issue than it would seem. (But ultimately, I think the subsidies need to stop, even though it would mean economic disaster for a handful of Midwestern states.)
I will say that I would have an ethical problem taking a marketing job for a consumer packaged goods company these days. What's interesting about that statement is that when you have the educational background that I do (undergrad marketing/mba marketing) that job is considered the best/most prestigious you can get (the "best" jobs the marketing folks came out of my program with were for Frito Lay). All the more reason I need to find a new career, I guess...

did you see king corn yet?