Food, Inc

Anyone who has 1905's Upton Sinclair book, 'The Jungle'
or Rachel Carson's 1962 classic, 'Silent Spring' imbetted
in their memory will relate to this independent movie
being shown around the country.

Knowing that US farming for the most part has become
a manufacturing industry needs to be viewed by the
masses. The reason our country is so unhealthy relates
directly to what we don't know about major food production
in our country.

Living in Upstate New York does not always seem a blessing
because all anyone thinks about is all the snow we receive.
We do have about 8 more months in the year when we don't
have snow. We also have many local farmers and organic
farmers in the region. We have many farmer's markets.
Some seasonally from June to October and others year
round.

Food, Inc portrayed the three meat producing industries
that I have stayed away from since 1993 -beef, pork &
chicken. Worse now than I thought back then when I moved
to a mainly vegetarian lifestyle. I still think I need to address
some of my dairy issues because most cows are not grass fed.
This month even O magazine addresses genetic modification
of food in the US and the bans on such artificial processing
of food in Europe. Grit magazine this month devotes an article
on beef that is grass fed.

Another issue in Food, Inc is genetic modification of corn and
soybean seeds by Monsanto ( a chemical company not a farming
company!). This summer I took 'corn' unless locally grown off
my shopping list also -that was because of pesticides -now I have
other resons.

More info relating to the issues found in Food, Inc can be found
on the Take Part blog -  http://www.takepart.com/blog/tag/hungry-for-change/


Take time to know what you purchase and why some food is so cheap.
Spend a few dollars more and stay healthier. Can you say no to 'High
Fructose Corn Syrup'? It's in all your favorites and it's banned in Europe
food production.