I don't have TV. That doesn't mean that I don't watch TV, just that I don't find TV important enough to pay money for (rabbit ears don't work where I live, so it's cable, satellite, or nothing). So I watch TV online - legally, streamed from the television station websites themselves. It gives me the freedom to watch tv shows pretty much whenever I want, and mostly commercial free. It's a pretty sweet deal actually (as long as the internet is running smoothly).
Anyway... I was browsing the CBC website and they had last week's episode of The Passionate Eye advertised (April 11th). They were playing 'Food Inc', which is a documentary about where our food comes from. This documentary was even nominated for an Oscar, so to find it playing on CBC was a small miracle. Naturally, I started watching it at lunchtime just to see what it's all about.
I've only watched about 20 minutes of an 1 1/2hr long film, but what I've already seen is enough to make me start to question the food I put into my mouth. If you get a chance to watch it, do. Just the fact that there is corn by-product in just about every single bite of food we eat makes me wonder what we're doing to ourselves. :S
I was a farm kid. I've seen where good food comes from. There is a huge difference between the way food on the family farm is produced and the way food on a factory farm is produced - and it is gross. Makes me really appreciate picking weeds by hand out of the garden and chasing cattle around. When I grow up, I will have a garden of my own. A big one.
If you missed the show, you can watch it here:
http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/ID=1464545109
everything is different, everything is the same
2 years ago
I watched that documentary too. Very disturbing when I think back to the difference in how our cattle were treated.
ReplyDeleteWe're trying to make changes in our household (although not because of the documentary).
-growing a lot of our produce
-getting our meat from Chinatown (vs the big chain grocery stores), who gets them from the Hitterites (similary to Mennonites)
-supporting the idea of urban chickens
-picking up bison from southern Alberta (when we're in the area)
-making a lot of our meals from scratch (pasta, bread, pizza, sauces, soup, desserts)
We still have a long way to go but I already notice a difference in the taste of our food. We had some prepackaged food on Sunday and all I could taste was salt. And the tomato sauce from the store last week was way too sweet.