Food, Inc..some film on the lens

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Hi Judith,

Thank you for your link and good comments (especially about Stonyfield). I was not disappointed because

Schlosser and Pollan are meat eaters. I knew the movie would be biased

that way, and it surely was. Even the factory and slaughterhouse scenes,

as awful as they were, did not report the whole story but merely

skirted the issue of animal suffering. We know that exposing the true,

gruesome details like in "Earthlings" for example would ensure the

movie's failure at the box office. But do I want its success? I am

vacillating whether to even recommend it to my friends and family: the

movie gives meat and dairy eaters more "permission" to eat nonresponsibly, while under the guise of "organicfree range" etc, you

know the scoop.

 

If you attended the organic/fair trade discussion, moderated by

Schlosser, at last year's SF Slow Food Nation event,

you may remember that Schlosser stated, "Vegans particularly contribute

to the worst working conditions and slave wages" [emphasis mine], as if we all purchase

our vegetables from Safeway. I wonder how many factory farm workers and

animals suffered and died to give him that juicy hamburger (which my

vegan friend surmised he had to eat to reach a wider movie audience)?

Speaking of the Slow Food Nation event, did you notice that there

weren't any vegan vendors? Perhaps Schlosser and Pollan are actually anti-vegan! Someone prove me wrong, please! I'd like to add that I do appreciate their stance on 1) fairness to factory workers, pickers, and other laborers; and 2) importance of buying locally/organic; so I assume that they only eat fairly traded food and grow their own/buy locally. Of course, I do not support their outright murder.

 

I would say that after seeing the movie, I was not disappointed, but rather disgruntled and depressed. For

some, offing a young, feeling animal "humanely" is okay. Thanks again for the blog link. I may check it out one day.

 

DonnaPosted by: "Judith Gottesman"

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Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:59 pm (PDT)

You can post your views on the movie's blog & find it thru takepart.com.

This is my posting:

 

Sorry, but while I thought this was an excellent movie, I was disappointed

that organic and grass-fed dairy & beef farming was presented as the good

alternative. Desertification will be the result of all those cows roaming

the land and dairy is linked to colon & breast cancer, as well as

osteoporosis by leaching calcium from bones from eating animal protein.

Forget Stonyfield and free ranging cows. Go vegan! Dairy is poison and

killing animals is cruel, no matter how you look at it. It’s very

disappointing to see such a well-made movie ignore the obvious solution to

the health & environmental problems.