Comments on: Food Inc - Watch It

by: Bob Constantine

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:17:43 +0000

I have to agree that “farm” subsidies are a joke. Theft if one really understands the true meaning of the word.

Government has consistently abused the free market and causes most of the misery. When they attempt to fix things…they get worse.

So what do they do, why apply even MORE government…yecch!

Been so long since I posted anything here, the math problem almost got me.

by: Lynn

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:57:17 +0000

Hi Walter -

The bit you took exception to, the bit about not being able to afford ‘real’ food? Very often that really means that there is no one in the household with the time to shop seriously for food, and sometimes even no one with the know how to cook it.

People these days have very often grown up in 2 parent working homes, in daycare and public schools and really haven’t been exposed to real life. When they say they can’t cook, they don’t mean they can’t turn out a gourmet meal, they mean they have no clue what to do with actual raw food. The nearest thing to cooking they know is how to apply a pound of hamburger or a can of tuna to a helper box.

The thing is in the third generation now, and will be kind of difficult to turn around at this stage; more so if we let it go unrecognized. Sad, really, as well as dangerous to our collective health.

Ciao -

Lynn

[Yes, I’ve known people who don’t know how to cook. And knowing us inspired them to learn to one degree or another. It can change. People have to want change and know that it is possible. Take the time to inspire. -WJ]

by: Snazy snezy

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:30:01 +0000

Walter,
I changed my diet to meat and veggies only. No corn, grains, starchy veggies and very very little fruit. My weight is going down and I am not hungry. I eat a lot less. All those empty corn calories make you hungry so you eat more. As one of my doctor’s said of bread -its an eatable napkin-

If we really want to cut down on CO2 we should start with banning soda pop not trade carbon credits and make the bankers richer.

by: Jed

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:03:08 +0000

Good flik. Saw it this week.

by: Greg R Perry

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:15:19 +0000

An excellent film, Walter; we saw it on Wednesday. It really shook me. I’m a city boy, moved to Northeast PA to reunite with an old flame. I thought my new wife’s notions were quaint, but as I spent more time learning to milk cows, raise pigs, goats, chickens and rabbits, I felt better than I ever have in my life. Losing the extra 40 pounds helped, too.

I’m now fully throwing in with her dream of homesteading and trying direct marketing to the locally-grown appreciators, whose numbers this film should improve. But boy, it’s a struggle. Without my now work-from-home city job, we wouldn’t have a prayer. As an engineer and contractor I can see how the price models are all screwed up, and thanks to this film I learned why. We need to get involved with politics and organizations like the farm bureau that claim to be supporting my viewpoint, but are tools of big agri-business. But at least I think we’re on the right track!

by: Jeff

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:05:46 +0000

Interesting we only got to see the inside of that family’s car and the porch of their house. I bet they have a big screen TV inside and the producers didn’t want us to see it. Yes indeed, priorities are screwed up.

by: Mike

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:23:40 +0000

Awesome review Walt. Thanks and I will get it.