Has anybody seen Food Inc?

[Mark_Hardware]

Well? If not, I highly recommend it. I bet you'll look at food a little differently next time you go to the store....

[Spawn-Inc]

i would watch it but i want to keep eating chicken and beef. i know they all get treated like **** but i can't bare to see them getting kicked around and such. as bad as it is, i don't care to know how it gets to my plate, so long as it does.

[Mark_Hardware]

I know it sounds messed up, but I don't get all bent out of shape about how the animals get treated. I know it's wrong and I would never condone it. What bothers me more is the fact they treat these animals like that then feed them to us.
The animal abuse in the food industry is not exactly news. What I found more interesting is the gestapo style control the companies run on, well, everything.

[x88x]

I would also highly recommend watching Food Inc. It provides an interesting look into the upper-level workings of the commercial food market; something that is deeply unsavory to me mainly because of the business practices of the companies running it (I'm looking at you Monsanto).


What bothers me more is the fact they treat these animals like that then feed them to us.
This has always rather amused me about people. It's fine to butcher them and eat them, but we have to treat them nicely while they're still alive? :think:

Not trying to incite anything, I just think it's odd.

btw:
Proud supporter of PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals

The way I figure it, if we weren't supposed to eat them, they wouldn't taste so good :D (though I hear we taste really good too....uh oh...)

[Mark_Hardware]

Well I'm not an animal rights activist, and to be fair the movie only hints at animal rights. I know that can get to be a very touchy subject for some people, so I tend to avoid it.

Basically what it comes down to really is having a right to know where our food comes from, and I do believe that everyone does have that right.

[billygoat333]

I've wondered about this movie it keeps popping up on my netflix. will have to check it out.

[Liquid_Scope_99]

I've wondered about this movie it keeps popping up on my netflix. will have to check it out.

me too was jsut thinking the same thing

[spamseptictank]

The movie doesn't so much focus on how the animals are "processed" to become food, but on the business ethics of the food conglomerates. What incentive is there for the people who work on your food to do it right?
I know it's seems silly to treat the animals decently before killing them, but here's something to think about. The animals are stressed out, which makes the meat not taste as good. Ask anyone who hunts deer which tastes better: the clean kill or the one you had to shoot twice.
Besides, standing knee deep in poo is hardly a recipe for hygenic food production.
And yeah. Monsanto is a jerk (if corporations can be jerks), so I've started trying to avoid soybeans and sot products. Not an easy thing to do.

If God hadn't meant for us to eat animals, He wouldn't have made them out of meat.

FWIW,
Dave

[x88x]

I know it's seems silly to treat the animals decently before killing them, but here's something to think about. The animals are stressed out, which makes the meat not taste as good. Ask anyone who hunts deer which tastes better: the clean kill or the one you had to shoot twice.

You make a good point here, though it has more to do with how they are killed than how they are treated in life. Interesting fun fact, in Perdue chicken processing plants, the chickens are actually gassed before they are killed in order to relax them, so the meat will taste better. (note: I'm not promoting Perdue, I just happen to know more about them, having grown up in an area where a lot of their product originates from)

[Airbozo]

I have always felt that if more people know where there food comes from and how it was processed, that there would be many more vegetarians in the world. Then again, the way some vegetables are processed is not much better.

I try to buy all my meat products from a couple of different butchers in the area. Mainly the ones that get all their meat directly from the ranchers and one in the area even has his own people go out to the ranch and process the animals before sending them to the butchers cold storage to be dry aged. When I was younger I helped to deliver cows to a processing plant. A real eye opener. That experience alone switched my meat shopping habits. Plus like mentioned above, there IS a difference in the taste and texture.