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DesideriScuri -> RE: Food Fight-documentary/Agricultural policies/Overhauling farm subsidies (2/16/2013 3:55:30 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Marini
I recently saw a free documentary called "Food Fight".
This is an excellent short documentary by Chris Taylor, that is very informative, and gives the history about how our food sources and food supplies have been changed and shaped by large agricultural policies/and large agricultural farming policies over the last 75 years or so.
http://www.foodfightthedoc.com/foodfight.html
Here is a trailer from the film: Trailer from Food Fight the documentary
For those interested you can watch it free on hulu.
It really opened up my eyes as to some of the reasons we have so much processed crap/and what has been DONE to most of the fruits/vegetables in the grocery stores these days.
When you open your eyes and realize how much the government has been involved into subsidizing industrial agriculture, which equals promoting/encouraging a lot of the processed foods that we have available and consume, it makes your jaw drop.
We hear a lot about the processed foods, but what about what industrial agriculture has DONE to fruits and vegetables, also?
Some other food for thought is the whole area of "farm subsidies" that taxpayers are subsidizing that make us fatter and unhealthier.
Here is an excellent fairly recent article on farm subsidies.
Scientific America- For a healthier country overhaul farm subsidies
It is great to know that many people are wide awake/waking up to the processed crap that fills our grocery stores and the big link to obesity, diabetes, and all manner of health problems.
I enjoyed a segment of the film in which people had to eat a vegetable from a local grocery store and a vegetable from a sustainable farm, and everyone was amazed at how different they actually tasted.
Having more small and local farms and farmers, having more natural, sustainable and organic based products, and making these foods more available and affordable should be of concern to everyone.
It's odd with all these "programs" aimed at childhood/adult obesity, increased rates of diabetes, and food related diseases, that our government still subsidizes and promotes the manufacturing of all these adulterated food/processed food/and genetically altered vegetables/and fruit that fills our grocery stores.
Big agriculture does not care about quality, taste, or creating healthy foods, their goal is to produce large amounts of food.
Good food should be a right, not just a privilege.
Why isn't this issue a BIG national issue?
What is the solution? Buying locally grown? Farmer's Markets? Those are personal choices. Make them yourself. Grow your own food and share. That should easily show the difference between local stuff and the big commercial providers. Raise your own cows. Feed them grass and not corn. Raise your own hogs and/or chickens. Someone is going to have to do that.
And, so we're on the same wavelength, I'm actually looking forward to starting my own garden full of veggies for me to can after harvest so i have access throughout the year. And, I'll be starting some fruit-bearing plants (apples, grapes, blueberries, etc.) for the same purpose. I am going to choose what I plant and might even see if I can save some of my very own seed for the following year. I'm looking into grass-fed local beef and will consider raising my own chickens in the future. I'm not really concerned with pigs because I can live without pork. Bacon and sausage, though, are too damn good to pass on. I'll still rely on others for those products (or the meat that goes into those products). I've often heard that the healthiest way to shop is to stay around the perimeter of a store. The tendency for stores to have all the processed "stuff" in the aisles drives that.
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