Please. The movie is an hour and a half, but it is very eye-opening, scary, educational, and well worth the time. Having small children, I had to watch it in bits and pieces. I am beyond furious. I am spitting angry at how our food supply is handled. (Not surprising.) Surprising is even though I knew it was bad, I did not realize just how bad. We had already made radical changes over the past few years because I don't trust the food system in this country. I trust it even less now. Living in the middle of Ag farms, now I have to worry about the seeds blowing into our yard and contaminating our garden?
This is scary stuff. Just please watch.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/67878/the-future-of-food
And now for my points: 32. The amount I am allowed each day.
1 comment:
I couldn't watch the film (Hulu doesn't work outside the US )but I'm guessing the content.
I'm totally with you on this one.
I come from a small village in the middle of England,surrounded by an arable farm, big by our standards with huge fields (ripped out hedges are more economic). Every year, at least once these fields were sprayed with chemicals and pesticides and I can remember it blowing onto our houses and the smell in the air. My family moved away from there but we keep in touch, it is a small community. So many people got ill with cancer, lots and lots of people all types of cancer. No formal link was made with the spraying but it was in everyone's minds.I still feel so angry about it!
I buy all my veg from a local organic cooperative,my meat from a local butcher. Its expensive but I'm not prepared to compromise my family's health.
Even more angry that now it seems that the swine flu outbreak was traced to a huge part - US owned commercial pig farm where animals are kept in appalling conditions and the vile products of the factory are pumped into local water sources.
Sorry to rant on but I so admire the stands you are taking. Its very hard to swim against the tide but for our kids health we have to do it.
great blog btw, I read it every day
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