Food Inc.

Although I personally felt that the video the Future of Food gave more detailed and need to know information about how Monsanto has genetically altered food, I found Food Inc. to be very enlightening as well.

What I learned from this film was the disgusting facts about where our meat comes from. Chickens being injected with hormones so they grow faster, and have bigger breasts. The poor animal can't even support its own weight so it topples over, many of them die in the dark cramped wing to wing standing in its own feces eating genetically modified corn. In fact every animal raised for butchering is feed corn. Cows are not meant to eat corn, they eat grasses. Eating the corn creates e-coli bacteria in their stomachs, so they get fed antibiotics, and that passes over into what we eat when we eat them. The fact that they are adding ammonia to our meat to kill bacteria is mind boggling.

It seems any of the powers that be in government agencies that could protect us from all this are actually affiliated with Monsanto and its subsidiaries. Monsanto controls our food and our farmers. Despite the billions of dollars they have basically having a monopoly on all seeds and pesticide production, they go after the farmers to either comply, or put them out of business. They sue the farmers for patent infringement if any of their seed gets mixed in accidentally with their own seed. It's ridiculous that they get away with everything they do.

From what I understand, the only recourse we have as individuals is to support organic farming. Buy organic foods, ask for organic foods. Our purchases cast a vote for what we will eat. The farmers will provide what we ask for, we need to support those who are still able and willing to farm organic.