Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It Summary and Reviews

Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It

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Brand: PBS
Editor: Participant Media
Editor: Karl Weber
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-05
ISBN: 1586486942
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: PublicAffairs

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Book Review: A Companion to a movie about our freedoms as Americans
Summary: 5 Stars

Picture a sheppard dog punching out a time clock(our fathers' generation). Now the guard is changing - our generation is going to have the sheep(the people) protected by... wait/he's punching in the time clock/WOW! He's back dating it!!! ...(ZOOM IN)... It's a Wolf in government's clothing.
There are three parts to this superb compilation of writers who are intrinsic/intimate to the inner/outer workings in the incipient indusrialization of our food: Part one/THE FILM, Part two/INSIDE THE FOOD WARS, Part three/WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.
The best way to describe it (other than it digs down into the bare bones of this dirty business) is the way the film maker got involved himself; with the help of Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollen, and many others, as he describes in his chapter: Exploring the Corporate Powers Behind the Way We Eat: The Making of FOOD, INC.
He tells of setting out to make a film about food & then inexplicably, runs into an iron curtain separating him from seeing where the food comes from?. So he decides to: matter-of-fact state when companies(many household names)refuse to let the public know what they are in fact buying.
He finds sickness from contaminated food on the rise, as lobbying power cripple efforts to police the industry/a matter of public safety.
He finds that although the government provides inspectors to protect consumers, their authority is waning as the government gives greater responsibility to self-regulation.
Unfortunately, the film he set out to make is turning into a film about unchecked corporate power. He is fortunate to expose it. Unfortunate, because it is ipso facto.
He finds the "Food Disparagement" laws that are meant to scare the bejeezus out of you. Oprah Winfrey didn't take this laying down/ but even she had to watch her p's & q's.
Robin Maynard of the U.K. Soil Association points out, the same amount of grain needed to fill a tank of a sports utility vehicle could be used to feed a person for an entire year. This is not fair or a sustainable trade. But according the the U.S. Government there are only two kinds of fair: The State Fair and The County Fair.
There are no high roads to globalization only lower & lower roads leading to rock bottom prices. This situation is not sustainable, nor is it accidental. In large measure, it can be traced back to government policies designed to produce the very system that now distorts agrucultural/production in this country.
Whether simply greed, deregulation, outright theft/fraud/blackmailing by financial institutions of their respective governments, the combined effects of the food & financial crisis will continue to unfold in the coming months and years. The bottom 3 billion poor will take the intial hit as well as the continued extermination of the middle class.
The ethanol boondoggle, stock market/commodities speculation/manipulation lead to the crisis of the global food price peak in June 2008. These high food prices have created tremendous pressures in the lives of the poor, for whom basic food can consume 2/3 of their income.
This book is information rich(some stomachs may be unable to digest) in the topic of food as it plays out in today's battle of good vs evil.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!!!!

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