FOOD, INC.

So you like food do you? Good. After seeing this movie (well, documentary) your enjoyment of your next meal might be a little tempered. Especially if the meal involves corn, beans or some sort of meat product. Of course those are three pretty big staples of a persons meal.

Just a few stats from the film that were the most fascinating to me:

* The No. 1 buyer of beef in the U.S. – McDonalds
* Did you know that the average food product travels about 1,500 miles to get to your grocery store?
* Chickens are “plumped up” so much before being killed that the chicken’s legs can’t support the extra weight
* Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 76 million Americans are sickened, 325,000 are hospitalized and 5,000 die each year from foodborne illnesses

The flick isn’t so much about a “shock and awe” factor that slaughter house might bring but rather an straight forward informational piece about who is driving the multi-billion dollar food industry. And the big companies (i.e. Tysons, McDonalds, etc.) won’t go on camera to comment. Silence in this situation usually equals a level of guilt. While you try to reserve complete judgment on these certain companies, it is really hard not to. The mountains of evidence leads me to believe that there is some serious “shady business tactics” going on here.

Eye opening film that will get a lot of questions going around your head.