Food Inc. Documentary

This thought-provoking documentary left me with some concluding thoughts...

The food industry - whether it be engineering foods, meat inspection, farming, political games, lobbyists, scrutinizing & being critical of the industry, food contamination in the food chain, etc...

Some points of interest:
• Corn is heavily subsidized by the U.S. government

• snack food calories (cheap)

• bigger predictor of obesity is income level (e.g., $1 burger VS. $1.29 brocoli)

• high fructose corn & refined carbohydrates leads to spike to insulin -> wearing down the system of how are body metabolizes sugar....

• Commodity crops (e.g., corn is the heavy hitter) - soybean, wheat
• Hamburger meat filler that’s been cleansed with ammonia to kill E. Coli...
high fructose corn found in coke!

• We're hard wired for 3 tastes: salt, fat, & sugar

• Engineered foods presses our evolutionary buttons

• Food industry has protections that other industries don’t which makes it difficult for consumers such as you & I to openly criticize

• The meat industry sued Oprah for saying something on her show. Texas cattlemen sued Oprah for disparaging a food product and for loss of profit (she mentioned something about never eating another hamburger)...

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The author, journalist & activist, Michael Pollan (Omnivore’s Dilemma) is one of the authorities on the food industry that was featured in the documentary.

Also, read his book, In Defense of Food - An Eater's Manifesto
http://www.michaelpollan.com/indefense.php