Chef Paul: Food Inc.
February 08 2011
If you haven’t seen Food Inc. I strongly recommend that you do.
The film explores the relationship between the food we eat and how we grow and buy that food.
As someone who reads this blog you are obviously concerned about what goes into your food and into your body. It’s obvious from watching this film that our governments are not interested in helping us out when it comes to nutrition. They’re much more interested in money and keeping the big food companies happy than in the average consumer. How else can we explain the lack of oversight and continuous changing of the rules to help these large food conglomerates reap profits?
The shocking and deplorable state of large scale farming is exposed for what it is; a money making machine with little regard for the health or wellbeing of either their products or their customers.
It all seems a bit overwhelming. How can we as individuals even begin to change things when even our governments seem powerless in the face of these Goliaths? The answer is simple. We must start to cook more at home and end our reliance on convenience foods and fast foods. If you really truly saw what goes into a lot of the “products” in the grocery store and fast food joints out there you’d be appalled. Many of these “foods” are “created” with the goal of filling you up and then leaving you hungry again in no time when, hopefully, you’ll go back and have another of their “products”.
People need to become more aware of the food they eat, where it comes from and how it is prepared or farmed. It’s up to us to make the effort and make choices that are both healthy for us and for future generations. We can’t wait for the government and food lobbies to make changes…it has to begin at home.
