My Thoughts on this and Magnolia's Food Inc
TLDR: Propaganda without facts, fear and poorly thought out arguments for real problems too complex for the minds taking them on.
There's a scene on Top Chef where they say they have about $2.65 to spend on each kid at a public school for lunch... and that they didn't have enough money to include fresh fruit... well, I call *beep* on that... why couldn't they add fruit to that? They don't say. Bananas are cheap, some berries, an apple... along with a sandwich, and milk... that can be done for less than $2.65
I honestly believe if people are living month to month, and cannot afford to feed themselves, they should not have so many kids, it's irresponsible. Poor families have more kids on average than families not living in poverty, and of course part of the problem is lack of education towards the use and distribution of birth control, the war on birth control by the far religious right and the tea party hijacked Republican party, and this documentary seems to be placing responsibility on agri business, subsidies, and all these huge issues that are problems, but they're not the method of solving for X. Solving for X must be a personal decision.
It shouldn't take the poor people to "descend on Capital Hill" to change from a war on the poor to a war on poverty. The poorest can get food stamps, $200 a month which is pretty damn good for one person... but for so many people, the help is out of reach, but that doesn't mean it isn't needed. Remember, food stamps require you make like less than $5000 A YEAR, and have no more than $1200 in the bank, how do you raise a kid or kids, or really even yourself on that? You just can't, not in this country, and if you can, your standard of living is futureless unless you want to be a homeless urban shaman... street musician, but it's not how we responsibly care for our children or our future as a nation.
Food Inc is pure propaganda against Agribusiness, Corporate Farming. Now while I'm not a fan of how we treat animals as a food product, they are living, loving creatures, that aside, Food Inc says now tomatoes are no longer tomatoes but the notion of tomatoes... how is that anything but nonsense? How is meat without bones a lie to the public? It's convenience, not conspiracy. I have a feeling this "documentary" is going to be a whole lot of this kind of nonsense made to scare the public.
I do believe we need to be more responsible and kind to people and our products, and what we put on the store shelves, but mainly people need to educate themselves with facts more than propaganda.
The narrator sinisterly stating that the fruit is flooded with Ethylene GASSSSS to make it artificially ripen more quickly - the very same gas fruit NATURALLY emits as it ripens and encourages other fruit in the area to ripen.
The last line of the introduction is, "They don't want this story told."
Reminds me of horror movies that say they're based on a true story.
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