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It is encouraging to see such a thoughtful response to the situation. Lets hope that lots of people get to see it and start talking about just how utterly broken our food system is.
Here are 2 more films you might want to check out..
Killer at LargeFood, Inc.
I've decided to get the movie cant wait to see it!
I'm 34 minutes into the movie; it is presenting what holistic healers have been touting for decades in fantastic layman's language and in a most compelling way. I'm very impressed with the film so far and will be forcing it on--er--recommending it to all of my friends.
This is so interesting. I've been eating so badly since I started my trip that I yearn to completely detox once it's done. It's just so hard finding heathy stuff on the road.
Jack
Awesome. Perhaps you all could enlighten the pathetic soul who left the last comment on Learning to Fly... anonymously of course ;-)
Thank you SO much for posting this. I was just discussing with my husband that I think his mom is malnourished. A seemingly normal, healthy, slim person who is suddenly "not well" in the most generic sense. Why? because she eats nothing but packaged, processed foods.
*sigh*
I agree absolutely that we are what we eat.
My problem with this movie is that it gives opposition some very easy tools to discard this crucial message: it can easily interpreted as a lobbying tool for vitamin and supplement manufactures.
I mean, if conventional vegetables are so devoid of nutrition, then we need to turn to commercial vitamins and supplements, don't we? Or starve, because organic production at the scale necessary to feed Earth population is impossible.
It's also interesting how cooked food is poison whereas my limited knowledge of anthropology tells me that human civilization took off once we switched to a mix of raw and cooked food...
Etc. And once you throw that together with the truly useful and essential information it could serve to discredit the useful information.
Inga
I've been struggling a lot lately with the "organic vs local" issue. Obviously, local orgainc is preferable. But what to do when the option is local non-organic or organic but from some far off place (like Chile or South Africa or California even)? How to decide whether to support the local farmer and local economy or support organic farming somewhere else?
And which is more harmful environmentally...non-organic farming or global transport of organic produce?
So I was wondering if you have thoughts on this dilema.
I struggle with this also. Many times if something is from somewhere as far off as Chile and there is nothing US in the organics then I simply go without for the time, trying to train myself to understand local seasons, as well as reminding myself why it is so important to grow our own.
If it is something which I believe is an important component to my family's diet then I see where it lies on the Environmental Watch Group's safety list. Some things are safer than others in terms of contamination to the human body, though no human intervention such as pesticides and hormones are safe to that which supports us: Earth.
In this I truly struggle with wanting to support those who are carrying out socially and environmentally safe farming practices, and how far away they may be.
This is one of the main reasons why we have been traveling before choosing a place to settle. For instance: Central Wisconsin has virtually no ready access to local organic food. Even the Farmers' Market had only two organic venders, and the rest were hostile to questions about it.
I also believe that it comes down to this: As consumers we have a responsibility to demand better, and until we do the Market will not rise to meet our needs and wants. So long as we continue to buy pesticide, hormone laden food and packed things crammed with soy, corn, wheat and sugar... we will get little else and it will come at boutique prices for the few who demand something different.
Where there are many eating organic the prices are lower, for everyone, stores included.
Thank you so much for posting this trailer. Very important information and we need to educate ourselves.
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