Food Inc. the Movie

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Permalink Reply by Anne Goldfeld on July 27, 2009 at 6:18pm

The movie plays again on Friday and there are people meeting up and planning to discuss afterward:
http://www.azhomegrownsolutions.org/events/movie-and-discussion-foo.... Looking forward to it!

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Permalink Reply by Dana on July 28, 2009 at 7:23am

What makes me the maddest is the fact that WE THE PEOPLE choose our government....why can't we stop this?? Why, after all of the different movements & disturbing documentaries where companies, specifically, Monsanto, have the whistle blown on them....why can't WE stop them. How come, when I read different discussions here on PPG & and I have live discussions with other people that I meet from these forums, why is Monsanto still around? What do we have to do? I know money has a lot to do with it....and I'm sure Monsanto has TONS of money...and unfortunately, I don't. So for now, I guess I will just continue to smear their name as much & as often as I can. So, if I someday disappear & you never hear from me again.....you will all know that Monsanto sent somebody to quite me down.

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Permalink Reply by dan straight on July 28, 2009 at 10:54am

thanks to monsanto most of us viet nam vets have been exposed to agent orange,and many of us have health problems from it now. and i just happen to be one of the unlucky ones with problems

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Permalink Reply by Dana on July 28, 2009 at 11:36am

My point exactly....So sorry about your health issues Dan.

But I wonder how many people are sick specifically because of Monsanto. In my opinion, most of the cancers we have today are caused by Monsanto and companies like them. And yet, we don't have enough money to really stop them or do anything about it.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Allsopp on July 28, 2009 at 12:12pm

The Organic Conumers Association site has an alert of the week is about two appts. by the Obama adminstration of notorious biotech bullies in charge of food safety. Former Monsanto lobbyist Michael Taylor has been appointed as a senior advisor to the FDA Commissioner on food safety. And rBGH-using dairy farmer and Pennsylvsania Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff is rumored to be Obama's choice for Under-Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety. Wolfe spearheaded anti-consumer legislation in Penn. that would have taken away the rights of consumers to know whether their milk and dairy products were contaminated with Monsanto's (now Eli Lilly's) genetically engineered Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH). They have a petition in response, they say GMO's Aren't Safe! Don't Let Obama Put GMO Booosters in Chare of Food Safety! you can find the info at a new site I just discovered that looks fantastic "organicconsumers.org." Click on "Take Action" and it will take you to the petition to sign. Also info on HR 2749 which we were all concerned about a few months ago. Chris

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Permalink Reply by Dana on July 28, 2009 at 1:33pm

Action Taken......I will do what I can.

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Permalink Reply by Robert on August 3, 2009 at 10:29pm

Dana, while I agree completely with you and would like to see them "go away" as much as the next person, political activism is not going to do it. If you research a little further you will see that many high cabinet posts in the whitehouse since Clinton have either previously worked for Monsanto or been connected to them in one form or another. However, as was said in Food Inc., and I agree is that every dollar spent at the grocery is a vote for the kind of food we want. If enough people were to "vote" at the grocery, that would put a severe dent in Monsanto's bottom line. They might be forced to rethink their strategy. Bottom line is that they are poised to be a major player in controlling the global food supply. Sick, isn't it?

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Permalink Reply by Dana on August 4, 2009 at 11:43am

Now, I have started reading the book Food Not Lawns. It's apparent how I feel about Monsanto & that I think that that specific company is extremely dangerous to our human race, and that I vow to not give them another dollar of my hard earned money. And I knew in the back of my mind somewhere that, in the end, I am sure that somehow, some of my purchases in my daily life are going back to Monsanto....Well page 6 of Food Not Lawns tells me what I had a small suspecion of. The book has a page about GMO's and of course Monsanto is mentioned. Then, the end of the article, they have a "Frankenfoods 15". This is a list of 15 companies/corporations that pretty much cover the entire line of food, and that their food is pretty much all GMO. Now, my next vow is to never again contribute another of my hard earned dollars to any of the following "corporations":
1 - Campbell Soup
2 - Coca-Cola
3 - Frito Lay
4 - General Mills
5 - Heintz
6 - Hershey's
7 - Kellog's
8 - Kraft/Nabisco
9 - McDonalds
10 - Nestle
11 - Proctor & Gamble
12 - Quaker Oats
13 - Safeway
14 - Shaw's
15 - Starbucks

Luckily, for me, I had already wrote off most of the above over the last few years while vowing to never shop from Corporate American & stick with mom & pop shops & Certified Organic foods. Now, I'm going even further by shopping at my local farmer's markets & growing my own food.

DIE CORPORATE AMERICA DIE

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