Our Food

FOOD INC.
http://www.foodincmovie.com/

You have to have to watch this movie! It doesn’t just tell you what you eat, it shows you what you eat. Most Americans spend 9% of their income on food! People wanted food to be cheap but didn’t realize other things that would be better off being cheap. For instance, medicine and other addictions were a high result in the word of the people. It’s sad to realize Americans are more excited about a 99 cent burger rather a 99 cent head of lettuce. We have shot down the right to get the real nutrition that we need for our health, and our children’s health. There is a major difference between “healthy food” and just “food”. If people don’t change things soon, well just end up being treated like the animals were eating. There is cloned meat that we eat and is not labeled on the food we buy. If we do something about this horrible food we may save lives and live longer. The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the last 10 thousand years! The average super market has over 47,000 different products. All of our fruits and vegetables aren’t even safe to eat because of the pesticides in them. And every seed of corn or apple is exactly the same. Farms are now considered factories. There are only 13 different slaughter houses in the entire country.

Not only is our health at risk but our knowledge of our health is being held hostage. That to me is extremely unfair, but it’s been brought up this way because Americans have not said or done anything about it. The few farmers that are left and have not been sued are the only ones who care and actually know what is going on with the food industry. This documentary provides information that you do not want to hear or see. The few people that I have talked with in person that hasn’t seen it yet, say they will not see it. I believe it’s because they know how far we gone down in our food industry and there is little hope to be back to the point we were once upon a time.

My first reaction to this documentary was that I was never going to eat fast food ever, ever again! It sickens me to find out that every day someone dies of salmonella. There are over thousands of different cows in one pound of beef. And did you know that it is illegal to engage an argument with meat industries? What does that mean??? What we eat, breath and walk for everyday should be completely in the citizens hands. Otherwise, it’s thought to be condescending to spare information that should be rightfully given and nor prosecuted for believing its absurd. Opra is a prime example for my point, it took Opra 6 years to win her case against Monsanto. She said she was never going to eat another hamburger on national television, and Monsanto sued Opra for loss of profit and for arguing against them. Opra won the case but she was the only one out of thousands of farmers in America.

This movie made me realize a lot more than what I already knew and heard, it seems to be worse than what I wished. At this point in cloning animals it’s a fright cause that means we are running out of food to eat. There are too many recalls for this meat to be sanitary and not to be questioned. People die every day from this food we wanted so cheap and fast. Go Go Go Americans we rock, we have Mc Donalds! WoooHoo! Mc Donalds started the first fast pace low paid workers. That soon became a perfect way to run a meat processing factory. Mc Donald’s has its own private meat, egg, and vegetable factories because Americans “love” cheap, fast food. (Hmmm…food? Or Bad fast food??) Although, what were eating is horrible for us it was not what we had intended on. Farmers and the America people are slowly recognizing that we are running out of time. The animals were here way long before we were and now they are leaving before we are. If we are cloning animals and the animals get more stupid every time they are cloned, what is going to happen if we eat dumb cloned animals? Will we get more stupid? It may seem like a weird question, but seriously now imagine if we continued with the human cloning. In 20 years peoples IQ would increasingly drop, just like the animals.

I believe this is the one and only article that I have done, that I could continuously argue and debate my thoughts for such a time period. I believe that this article made me feel so strongly because half of this country has absolutely no idea what is going on! It is increasingly disappointing to see us go down like this. Farmers who have their land from generation from generation had lost everything because they didn’t want to follow Monsanto’s regulations that caused everything the farmers had earned to disappear. If the farmers tried to plead for their case it was no match for Monsanto, they would lose their money and a lot more. They lost their career, friends, passion and admiration. All to American people not seeing what was slowly happening and what quickly turned sour.

In conclusion this blog is my favorite so far, I still have a lot of thoughts and arguments to settle but I figure I better stop rambling. My point to this blog is to at least have somewhat of knowledge about what we the American citizens eat. Even though half of what we deserve to know will never be publicized, nor notified what so ever to the human race, until it happens.