Last night, the U of C student film group showed this movie, and followed it with a discussion led by a professor of geophysical sciences who studies how our food choices shape the environment.
The movie itself doesn't focus (much) on the environmental; instead, Food, Inc. scares you by showing you where your food really comes from, and how the massive agribusiness industry has been amassing more and more control over it.
The film challenges how agribusiness raises, processes and sells meat. What it doesn't do is challenge the sagacity of eating meat in the first place. Still, it is really eyeopening, and makes you want to act. (I signed back up for a CSA this morning!)
Momcat, I think you should show this movie to your "ethical eating" group when it comes out on DVD, which should be soon.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I've got that movie on hold from Netflix. It's gotten a lot of good reviews and some people were calling it as scary as a horror movie.
ReplyDelete