Fight the Power.

This isn’t a Republican or Democrat thing…or a Liberal or Conservative thing…this is a survival and common sense thing.   We need to change the way our food is manufactured (and I use that word purposely, because ‘growing’ is only a marginal part of the food creation and delivery process in our country today), and go back to actually eating things that come out of the ground and don’t first go through a factory.  We need to stop subsidizing corn production to enrich large food processors, and start subsidizing (if we are going to subsidize at all) organically grown produce that can give nutrition to our children who need it.

There are only a handful of companies that manufacture food in this country on any scale and they basically control the supermarkets’ 40,000+ products.

Monsanto has patented corn that it has genetically modified, and has succeeeded in getting virtually every farmer in the U.S. to grow corn using its seed.

U.S. taxpayers subsidize farmers to grow and sell corn and soy at below-market prices to food producers who in turn sell the food relatively cheaply (but still make a nice spread at the taxpayers’ expense) to the consumer.   Unfortunately for all of the kids heading towards type II diabetes, the corn-rich food (and that’s most mass produced food and drinks, by the way) is high in empty calories, sugar, etc. and is cheaper than fruits and vegetables, which are not subsidized by the taxpayer.

Poor families often have to choose between the dollar menu at a fast food restaurant that can feed a family of four and produce at the grocery store that can barely feed them for the same money…guess which they choose?

Watch the movie “Food, Inc.” and then tell others about it so they will watch it  It’s not a very pleasant film to watch and it will make you mad, but important if you care about what you put in your mouth. 

It will show you what’s really going on with food production in the U.S. You can see all of the factory-raised chickens, pigs and cows living their whole lives standing in their own excrement, and pumped full of hormones and antibiotics so that they can grow more rapidly and be slaughtered more rapidly.

If you’re already buying food locally and eating organic, then you’re already on the right path.  If you’re buying processed foods and meat, watch this and then change what you do—but only if the idea of eating Frankenfood is repellent to you.

Here’s the trailer.