Empty Calories. Factory Farms. GMOs. Food Matters. The Future of Food (2004. Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead - film. Forks Over Knives. Food, Inc. Documentary Film. For most Americans, the ideal meal is fast, cheap, and tasty. Food, Inc. examines the costs of putting value and convenience over nutrition and environmental impact. Director Robert Kenner explores the subject from all angles, talking to authors, advocates, farmers, and CEOs, like co-producer Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma), Gary Hirschberg (Stonyfield Farms), and Barbara Kowalcyk, who's been lobbying for more rigorous standards since E. coli claimed the life of her two-year-old son.
The filmmaker takes his camera into slaughterhouses and factory farms where chickens grow too fast to walk properly, cows eat feed pumped with toxic chemicals, and illegal immigrants risk life and limb to bring these products to market at an affordable cost. Food. Most people seem to be unaware of the drastic changes in food during the past decade or so. Several factors have come together that affect food. Among these are:Overpopulation - now over 7 billion people Soil depletion-erosion, salinization, deforestation, over-tillage, synthetic chemicals.Water depletion - only .007 percent of all water is potableToxic chemicals -over 75,000 synthetic chemicals invented since 1940Total pesticide use in the United States is about 1 billion pounds per year.
Factory Food - big business takeover of of small farms and food productionClimate change- drastic affects on food supply These factors are inter-related and have been accelerating to such an extent that, combined the effect is alarming. A few decades ago we ate mostly real food that was grown on many small farms. Increasingly we are eating factory products that only appear to be food. So what are the alternatives? When hungry we probably will eat whatever is available. According to Dr.
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