That Chicken Has Pecs
I just watched this as a result of one of Jasmine‘s posts…
WOW.
What are your thoughts on the food you consume and where it came from?
Do you care?
Do you not care?
What do you do about it?
Los
I just watched this as a result of one of Jasmine‘s posts…
WOW.
What are your thoughts on the food you consume and where it came from?
Do you care?
Do you not care?
What do you do about it?
Los
RAIN IT DOWN
I loved that movie. You should also read the book Fast food Nation. Along the same lines but much more detail. The food industry is something that I am not very fond of. Here a good link- http://www.themeatrix.com/
So- I do care. I buy cage free eggs, hormone free milk and organic when I can afford it. With 3 kids though…it is tough.
It is.
Don’t watch that movie if you ever want to comfortably eat anything again.
Or read “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”
I care. I just don’t care enough to change any of my habits or spend 2x as much if not more on food.
So I guess that means I don’t care.
I would also add “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” to the list of not reading if you ever want to “just eat” again…
I JUST put this DVD in my Netflix que!!! Should be here on Tuesday.
TOTALLY CARE! our family eats mostly organic or locally grown. it DOES cost more to eat this way, but it’s doable if you choose to cut in other areas. for instance… we don’t have cable. we just watch our shows a day or two (or a week) later on HULU.
i really think it matters what we feed ourselves… and what we feed our children.
Amen. We are REALLY thinking about going organic and locally grown.
Amen Jenny-we do the same. No cable so we can spend more on the things that matter, and honestly spend more time together instead of planted in front of the tv. Bryant and I buy organic and local for certain foods…meats, certain veggies/fruits and milk. Over the last couple years, I read Fast Food Nation, In Defense of Food, and this summer Skinny Bitch-which despite the title enlightened me on foods that you should buy organic and others that don’t really matter. Unfortunately, my crazy husband was raised on Fast Food so the transition has been more difficult for him-hard for him to shun his Burger King cravings
I think I care so much because I want to raise my kids with healthy habits when we do decide to start a family.
I’m a college student, kids my age live off of ramen noodles, red bull and mcdonalds. It kills me that most of my friends could care less what they’re eating. Last year I was an environmental science major, where we learned the ins and outs of where our food comes from, how it’s made and who makes it. I am incredibly disturbed by the ignorance in this country, we eat what we see with no questions asked.
i honestly believe that all of those pesticides or hormones we consume will effect our quality of life.
I care.
Last winter I read Barbara Kingsolver’s “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” AND THEN Michael Polan’s “Omnivore’s Dilemma” and I would recommend to read both of those books, just not in the dead of winter when there isn’t a local thing living to eat (or if you suffer from S.A.D.)
We joined a local CSA (community supported agriculture) this past year and it was great food, but really inconvenient. I try to get most of my food from local sources or Whole Foods. It cost more, but my health (and my families)is worth it.
I have eliminated almost ALL high fructose corn syrup and anything with hydrogenated oil from my diet…makes a difference.
Be careful with Whole foods…they have a habit of buying local produce and then marking it way up in order to sell their brand (365) more cheaply (comparatively at least)
watched that movie just a couple weeks ago….wow is right. Freaks you out a little to think of how much control those companies have and how crazy our food has been manipulated…but then we have to remember that our God is still enthroned on high and that all the ways and decisions of man are not over looked by Him…and that our time is in His hands no matter what they may do to us.
oh, btw….I met your tattoo before I was introduced to your blog.(was at a friends house and we were talking about tattoos and she showed your video.) awesome!
It’s on the netflix queue. Unfortunately missed it in theatres.
Been exploring this myself.
http://www.sarahcunningham.org/search/label/Smooches%20for%20Animals
I used to be one who was anti-organic/green/healthy, and figured it was all just hype. But, in the spring a good friend of ours started educating me about the foods that we eat, and I did some research on my own. My parents are in really poor health and I don’t want to be that way when I am their age. They have a horrible diet and both have auto-immune disorders that could be resolved if they cut out a lot of the greasy, yucky, southern fried foods that they eat.
So, now we eat primarily organic, paleo-type foods, and though we have had to refigure our budget b/c it is so crazy expensive, I am sleeping better, have lost 15 lbs, have gotten rid of all my digestive problems, and am in the best shape of my life! We are gradually phasing our kids into this lifestyle as well, but it is so hard b/c we didn’t start them out that way.
We just watched Food Inc. the other night and it was just as disturbing as I thought it would be. With a family of 6, I am not sure if we can afford to make all the changes we want to, but we are going to try.
I care but it is hard when you are not wealthy to eat healthy (that rhymed) We don’t do fast food cept a couple times a month. I try to always buy hormoine free chicken and we eat a lot of fruits and vegetables but I can’t afford Organic. We juice too.
Just like any hot topic the media picks up on, this movie is made to scare you (it scared me!). And I am pretty certain that is OK sometimes. I just have to remind myself not to live in fear. Be kind. Stay informed. Live purposefully. That is what I try to remind myself.
You always come with the heat.
Miss you.
Los
I am never gone! Still here. :::waving::: Here. Oh, still here. And now. Here! Hello there! Here..Oh wait..no, still here!
“this movie is made to scare you”
I think this is my biggest… um… beef with the movie. It discourages me. From what I know about food already, the facts are enough to motivate anyone with common sense to do better! Therefore the alarmism and misallocated emphasis on various facts becomes noise drowning out the signal.
Just give me the signal. I’m a big boy. I can figure it out.
peace | dewde
Not everyone is as big as you, haha.
watch this too http://tinyurl.com/ye2nz5j
my goal is to go organic when i can and plant a garden! working on getting to that point….oh, and a local meat market may be one step up from any grocery store??
I try to shut out the thought of where the food came from. It’s all disturbing but tastes so good. I love food too much
Years ago, when asked if we liked meat, my kids and I would quote Denis Leary and say “Meat is murder, and we love murder.” Wow, how times have changed! Now, we all look at where our food is coming from, whether it is humanely raised, cage free, no hormones or antibiotics, etc. I’m the first to admit that I spend more money on meat that is “free range,” and I don’t feel as guilty about eating it. We have cut back on the amount of meat and poultry we eat, totally cut out pork, and eat more fish and tofu products. We buy fresh veggies and fruits at the Farmer’s Market in the Spring and Summer and support local farmers. We feel better physically and mentally too!
Oh noes! Ecoli has been found in MILK and ORANGE JUICE??? OOOHH!!! SKEERY!
Newsflash. It’s living in your body right now. And most strains are completely harmless. Better than harmless, actually it’s beneficial.
I’m sure the movie has some good points. And I look forward to watching it. But the sensationalistic and alarmist trailer is a strike against me taking it too seriously.
peace | dewde
We have joined a CSA farm 3 out of the past 4 years, and get most of our meat from a local butcher – all free range, grass fed.
Another movie that I have wanted to see is King Corn – 2 guys from the city buy an acre in Iowa, plant corn & follow it to see where all it goes… yep. We live on a diet of corn!
I have been toying with the idea of going to a 75%+ raw diet, but it’s hard to be a locavore and just eat raw in the winter in Washington… MUCH easier in the warmer months!
As for what we eat, I’m on again/off again. Laziness kicks in and I stop baking all of our breads (it’s cold again though, so I’m about to start that up again!) But generally we eat all locally grown organic produce and home baked breads with lots of whole grains. It costs more, but I can soooo tell when I eat junk! It just makes me feel icky.
Oh, and the only beverages available in the house is local mostly organic RBST-free milk and good old h20. No juices or carbonated beverages except on rare occasions.
Thanks for the discussion!
Totally care. I try to eat organic and fresh produce when it’s available. I never eat fast food (unless it’s Subway) and don’t drink soda.
I care. But think that we take this far out of context. As a non-organic grain farmer, I find it very interesting how completely ignorant people are towards the food shortages in the world. That the worlds food supply/reserves are at a 50 year low. That our population keeps growing, and our farm land keeps getting smaller.
With that said, I agree we do need to take larger responsibility in what we eat and more importantly what we put into what we eat. However, people hear the world “Genetically Modified” and run for the hills. When really in most cases (not all, but most), we need to continue to figure out how to constantly grow bumper crops and produce healthy, larger food supplies. If we don’t we die. So we “Genetically Modify” species of plants and animals to do so.
(For the farmers) 20 years ago we thought that a 30 bussel per acre canola crop was the best we could produce. Due to the new species of canola plants we now can produce 60-70 bussel per acre crops. And we need to to keep up with the need.
Again, we need to take responsibility and I believe we have as our governments and various chemical companies constantly look at ways to do this. I will never farm organic due to my growing conviction of the global need that will never die.
People need to educate themselves past the conspiracy, left winged, bias movies. I dont disregard the problems that are out there. They are. And I care about that. I just think there are bigger issues than this out there in regards to this topic.
M
We don’t have cable so we can keep eating McDonalds.
On a serious note. I don’t care at all. Only care about price. If local anything is best and a great price…I will buy it. If it isn’t I won’t.
i care, but it’s a thick problem. who can afford what the real cost is to eat responsibly? (not me) but then the unseen price we’re paying now is dang high.
btw… the average cage free bird has the same sq footage as a caged bird when you divide size of range by # of birds… gotta dig deeper to make the difference, and check ur facts constantly. there’s great profit in deception, and we’re being deceived.
Interesting sites on the topic:
http://www.farmforward.com/
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1917458,00.html
i care a great deal. especially when we’re talking about meat, veggies and fruit—items that by definition are supposed to be fresh and should never be tampered with or short-cutted in their production.
I care – but the part where the guy says we should have a “national policy” about healthier food scares me. Leave people alone and through education and innovation create demand for healthier foods – not through the legal system.
Do I care? Not really. The life expectancy for people in the US has been increasing substantially over the past 100 years. During that time, you guessed it, modified foods and fertilizer came into use. Seems to me that organic or inorganic makes little or no diff (at least as far as life expectancy is concerned), in fact it seems as though people are generally better off eating foods that were grown with modern techniques. I guess it comes down to who you want to give your money to; the suits who have been producing foods for decades, or the suits who have been producing foods for a few years with a new marketing strategy.
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