My husband and I have been on a documentary kick, mostly documentaries on how corporations rule our government, our environment, food systems, etc. Tonight, we watched Food, Inc., an amazing documentary about our food supply and how, yet again, corporations, such as Tyson and Monsanto, rule our policy surrounding how we grow and consume food.
First, after watching the documentary, we resolved, yet again, to change our eating habits. Although we consider ourselves as organic eaters, the lazy day we can't get to trader joes or when our budget is tight, we fall back on Chiquita bananas, Prairie Farms milk, or regular eggs, instead of cage-free. Never again.
In a nutshell, the documentary explained again how our food supply is connected to so many other of our social policies: immigration, health care, cloning, outsourcing, foreign policy, etc. And not one connection is positive. Illegal immigration? Maybe Smithfield, the largest meat packing industry, should be arrested for offering jobs to Mexicans. . . I doubt one of our senators will bring that up. Health care? Maybe we should stop subsidizing our corn and soybean production so that carrots are cheaper than McDonalds . . .I doubt one of our congressmen will bring that up. It goes on and on. Power players in our government have vested interests in these corporations that care only about profit and not about the American people. Yet, each day, we elect these people, we eat what they serve, instead of asking for them to consider us!
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