Dinner Never Looked So…Gross
I am all for the ethical treatment of animals but I’ll admit that I’m certainly not PETA’s next poster girl. I love my leather boots and the bunny fur lining of the hood on my coat… hell, I can’t stop thinking about the cobra skin clutch I just found at the vintage market. However, the movie ‘Food, Inc.’ certainly opened my eyes to a completely different perspective on the way that our food is treated, handled and processed – making me suddenly re-evaluate what I’m putting into my body.
whiter meat. larger apples. fatter cows – we assume that these things all make their way to our table because we have developed more sophisticated farming techniques…we rarely (or at least I never have) stopped to consider that these advances in science pump the chickens with so many hormones that they can’t walk from the weight of their own bodies, or that the apples are saturated in harmful pesticides – I never even realized that the cows are fed a 100% corn diet causing them to become vehicles of a deadly strand of e-coli, passing this onto (read as: killing) consumers.
‘Food, Inc.’, a documentary that would make Upton Sinclair blush with pride, investigates the evolution of farming to highlight the incredibly harmful effects our advances in science are costing the quality of OUR food, treatment of animals as well as the abuse, and what some would consider slavery, of farmers – mostly driven by the monopoly of massive corporations…which in turn is ultimately driven by our country’s demand and necessity for speed and growth (I’m guilty as charged). Although I’ll still happily inhale a thick juicy steak every once and a while, the undercover footage from inside the chicken coops and slaughter houses will make me MUCH more likely to read labels (look for ‘grass fed’ or ‘free range’ etc.) and spend more time searching out local small-scale farmers.
Maybe bigger/greener/whiter/faster…is not always better?
