Ping to the Gardener’s List.
Thought some of you might be interested in this “review” in light of some of the things we’ve been discussing in regard to the various farm bills and corporate farming.
And there you see the Socialist agenda. The message is that our food will be so much better once it is all produced on government owned collective farms.
Yes, it IS a Michael Moore type film - in that it has a very strong bias and agenda.
Freedom and the free-market that these people hate so much have given us a dizzying choice of food, so much so that we are getting fat.
These lib elites hate fructose, for example - but why does fructose even exist? Because the Gov’t has insisted on trying to prop-up/control the sugar market and politically connected sugar processors for the last 50 years!
This is a bunch of hooey.
The recent deaths of people due to E. coli is because they ate meat contaminated with the fecal products of cattle. This is a standard result of the slaughter process and is not a problem if the meat is cooked properly. Rare hamburgers are a bad idea.
It can be argued that feeding cattle on corn is not a good idea, but it doesn't create new strains of bacteria. The basic issue is that while all mammals have E. coli in the intestines, humans don't do well when they ingest some of the varieties carried by cattle, deer, etc.
I don’t know why we conservatives leave this sort of awareness to the liberals so they get the reputation for being green and health conscious.
Follow the money trail to understand government corruption.
Whatever probems this may cause, the government will never take a hand in their solution; on the contrary, with the inheritance tax quickly eliminating the traditional American family farm, corporate interests are sure to make rapid progress in co-opting to an even greater extent all food production in the United States.
Moreover, with the major food corprations maintaining huge lobbying firms and making consistent and maximal contributions to election funds, our bought-and-paid-for legislators can be counted on only to fall into line with whatever policies they’re told to establish and keep in place.
Yea, cause that's worked out sooooo well in the past.
Idiot.
It's been over 10 years since her libelous remarks. Where is the so called American mad-cow?
My God!! I never knew how dangerous it is to eat in America.
That’s it I’ll boycott (must have been lucky, so far, these 44 years).
My Mother died at 85 and would be 110 and would marvel at the selection at her supermarket today. I buy Rib Eye steaks for $7.95 per pound at our local Costco and that is just the tip of the... Rib Roast
I’ll eat that factory food and love it! There may be some valid concerns but these kooks go so overboard that they aren’t worth listening to.
The saddest part of all this is the average farmer doesn’t have to go thru the corporate chain. If they sell their meat direct to the customer, they can get a huge premium per pound while the customer is getting a huge discount.
Say on beef, a farmer could sell a quarter, half, or whole for $2 a pound, nearly triple of what they’d usually get. You’d pay that and the processing charge, and for $2.50/lb you get all the cuts of meat way cheaper and way better than the store.
This is done locally where I live. The meat is beyond what you can get in most restaurants. Cut out the middleman, everyone wins.
Bump
I spent 7 years working in the meat industry. It is unbelievable regulated by the government. We once got in trouble because the font on the labels we used was incorrect. These labels had taken me six months to get approved by the USDA and then my local inspector said I had to throw them away.
I always think it is odd that the meat industry get singled out when they are virtually the only element in the food supply that IS regulated. Your fish, fruit, grains and packaged food likely came from a plant that hasn’t seen an inspector in a year or more.
Despite all of this the food we eat is very safe despite the scare tactics. More people are made sick by the way they handle the food at home than by the way food is handled by the farmers and processors.
Bump for later, but note that none of the corporations are named. Some of them are not all that wholesome.