Food, Inc. -- Go see this movie!

Tonight, Danielle & I saw the movie Food, Inc. It is a look inside the big business behind major food production, and paints a terribly brutal picture. Federal subsidies for big agriculture, engineering and modification of food, big business pressuring the small guy, and how we get the food we all eat. After doing some internet searches it seems that some of the companies attacked in the film are fighting back against some of the allegations, but the arguments seem pretty difficult to defend.

While we all know that fast food isn't healthy food and Coke isn't giving your body anything positive...it's amazing to see how these foods come to the store and who is behind them. It's certainly changed how I look at food and will greatly influence my decision to buy organic and local food whenever possible and grow as much as we can out at Cauble Farms.

On a side note, when the Wal-Mart reps visit the organic farm in Brattleboro, VT (home of a great New England event "Strolling of the Heifers") , it had to be quite an awkward visit, as the farmers stated "We've never been to a Wal-Mart"; not to mention the town of Brattleboro's effective protests that prevented a Wal-Mart from opening in the town several years ago. A store was eventually opened just across the river in Hinsdale, NH.

The movie is playing at the Regal Arbor in Austin, at a couple of theatres in D/FW and the Boston metro area. If it's playing near you, PLEASE go see it...if it's not, get your hands on the DVD when it comes out.

The trailer:







On a lighter note, we also saw a trailer for the movie Taking Woodstock, coming out August 14th. The "hippie born in the wrong generation" in me can't wait!