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Food, Inc. is a new documentary I saw critiqued on "At the movies" a TV show.
Have any of you heard of it?
It sounds like a very eye opening movie. It was recommended.
I learned that the US in the 50's had thousands of slaughtering houses and butchers used to be prestigeous.
Today in the US there are 13 slaughterhouses and butchers are one of the most dangerous jobs today full of immigrants who are dying on the job.
The US has tried real hard to keep us from learning the information in this film.
They said each hamburger contains 1000s of cows because of how massive these slaughterhouses are.
At first I thought there is no way I could watch that movie, I can't stand graphic images of cruelty and death. I realize I could close my eyes for those images I may not wish to see, which may be numerous, so I can gain the insight in the film.
I am glad to be eating vegetarian and some of us need reminders why we are doing this and just how much the food industry has changed, making the choice even more profound.
Have any of you heard of it?
It sounds like a very eye opening movie. It was recommended.
I learned that the US in the 50's had thousands of slaughtering houses and butchers used to be prestigeous.
Today in the US there are 13 slaughterhouses and butchers are one of the most dangerous jobs today full of immigrants who are dying on the job.
The US has tried real hard to keep us from learning the information in this film.
They said each hamburger contains 1000s of cows because of how massive these slaughterhouses are.
At first I thought there is no way I could watch that movie, I can't stand graphic images of cruelty and death. I realize I could close my eyes for those images I may not wish to see, which may be numerous, so I can gain the insight in the film.
I am glad to be eating vegetarian and some of us need reminders why we are doing this and just how much the food industry has changed, making the choice even more profound.
let us know if you watch teh film!
It should be a real eye opener. It would be great if it finally ended up on regular broadcast tv, but that's a pipe dream! The networks would be threatened with the removal of so many of the food commercials, they would cave in to the pressure. Maybe PBS television? We can hope!
What I don't get is the people that defend the slaughterhouse workers. If they don't want to get hurt by animals fighting for their lives then they shouldn't be trying to kill them - duh!
Goats I also kept because they "forage" eating the leafy weeds the horses don't, as horses are grazers. But goats are a pain in the ass, so I traded mine for a case of beer to someone who wanted his kid to breed them. The other escaped and was killed by coyotes. I thought about raising cattle, but never got around to it. You sell them to a slaughter house so you don't have the killing on your hands, so to speak, even though the net result is the same.
If I stay on this farm, I intend to raise rare "specialty animals", Icelandic sheep and Scottish highlander cattle, that are too expensive to slaughter, and are sold for breeding purposes. That way you are preserving the species, without the guilt...