If you care about where your food comes from, how it is produced/manufactured/engineered/grown, what it contains and who are the stake holders in the food industry, then you need to take a sobering look at the documentary Food Inc.
The film is American made (so much for land of the free!), and Lee and I came away from watching the film, primarily thinking - thank goodness for living in little ol' New Zealand.
By no means do I think that our food here is unadulterated by corn and soy products, don't contain a plethora of unhealthful ingredients or come from a highly mechanised system. But here our farmers aren't under the strangle hold of multinational corporations - see the film and you'll understand the extent to which these companies will crush and ruin the lives of producers who do not comply.
Our animals here, for the most part feel the grass beneath their hooves.
As private citizens we aren't under threat of litigation for saying something disparaging about a brand or producer, who are ultimately in bed with the powers that be and regulatory bodies.
We have freedom to grow our own meat and have it processed by home kill butchers - in the States there are a total of 13 abattoir (for the whole country) imagine if you dare, the mass production, complete disregard for the animals and the distance the meat travels to reach the end consumers.
This documentary is compelling, fascinating and terrifying all at once. Please watch it if you get the opportunity.
