Food, INC. The movie I wanted to make, but I will support this one

Hey there everyone! This movie is extremly important for me to pass along. It is playing in LA, NY, and San Fran, and will hopefully nation wide soon. It is call Food, Inc. and it is quite possibly the most important movie you can every watch in your life.

The fact is, the food we eat everyday is based on lies, deceit, greed, and an increasing amount of disdain for the people who buy food. We are poisoned every single time we eat a Whopper or a Big Mac. The giant strawberries you buy are death traps. Everything you put on your plate has either been modified to be low nutritionally or is based on corn, an item that is, for the most part, undigestable by most animals forced to eat it today. Do you know where your food comes from? More importantly, do you know the lies that made it get to your plate? Probably not. Trust me when I tell you chicken breasts aren’t as big naturally as the ones you buy in a store. Cow’s don’t give milk unless they are pregnant, so they are forced pregnant on a constant basis to produce enough milk for you to drink a glass of antibiotics and hormones.

Food, Inc. exposes America’s industrialized food system and its effect on our environment, health, economy and workers’ rights. Learn about these issues and take action through the Hungry For Change cafeteria and check out the 10 Simple Tips for making positive changes in your eating habits. Learn more about these issues and how you can take action on Takepart.com.

Genetic Engineering
Some of our most important staple foods have been fundamentally altered, and genetically engineered meat and produce have already invaded our grocery stores and our kitchen pantries.

Environmental Impact
Did you know that the average food product travels about 1,500 miles to get to your grocery store? And that transporting food accounts for 30,800 tons of greenhouse gas emissions every year?

Foodborne Illness
In Food, Inc. we meet Barbara Kowalcyk, whose 4 year old son died from E.coli poisoning after eating a hamburger. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 76 million Americans are sickened, 325,000 are hospitalized and 5,000 die each year from foodborne illnesses.

Healthy Eating
30 million Americans are obese. High calorie, sugar laden processed foods coupled with our sedentary lifestyles is growing our wastelines and contributing to serious health issues like diabetes, heart ailments and cancers.

Pesticides
Cancers, autism and neurological disorders are associated with the use of pesticides especially amongst farm workers and their communities. Learn about the effects of using pesticides to grow our food.

Factory Farming
Approximately 10 billion animals (chickens, cattle, hogs, ducks, turkeys, lambs and sheep) are raised and killed in the US annually. Nearly all of them are raised on factory farms under inhumane conditions. These industrial farms are also dangerous for their workers, pollute surrounding communities, are unsafe to our food system and contribute significantly to global warming.

Cloning
In January 2008, the FDA approved the sale of meat and milk from cloned livestock, despite the fact that Congress voted twice in 2007 to delay FDA’s decision on cloned animals until additional safety and economic studies could be completed.