Food Inc

[flusterbunny]

So, I saw a documentary called "Food Inc." due out in theaters soon. It did exactly what I thought it would do - make me hate the fact that I like meat. Even the good and trusty organic farmer made the concept of eating chicken seem horrible

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[ascian]

I totally feel your pain. I've had the Ultimate Dietary Showdown brewing on the horizon for a while now, that point at which I'm going to have to reconcile my unwillingness to kill anything with my desire to eat things that live, and now I'm being alerted to health issues as well

[ahumblepen]

That's okay, if you're a monster, I'm a monster who intends to feed meat to her baby monster when he gets him some teef

[flusterbunny]

The big recommendation that the movie made was to 'shop locally, buy at Farmer's Markets, buy organic products and thus force the giant food factories to change their ways of doing business by not supporting them.' Although a friend of mine suggested a possibility that if the entire world went organic, they wouldn't be able to produce enough food to feed the world, which is something I'd have to actually look into to validate as real or not

[skywardprodigal]

Hiya.

Good rant.

Yanno, it's all pretty fraught when it comes to food. There's a whole lot of hustling and bullshit.

You might want to read Nina Planck's "Real Food". That's a great book too.

I love salmon.

And I make lots of Indian/Bangladeshi/Ethiopian food on account of the variety of vegetarian and vegan dishes.

And I shop where poc/nonwhites/chromatic people shop because there's often greater variety for better price than in big chain stores.

[flusterbunny]

I'm always curious about the 'fish' exception vegetarians often make, that I'd like to make myself. Apparently, we are teaching fish to eat corn.

And I'm lame, because i just realized you are 'skyward' and not 'skywarp,' the latter of which made me think you were perhaps a Transformers nerd. :)

[skywardprodigal]

I don't quite understand the fish exception some vegetarians make. I think maybe it means the flesh comes from something they couldn't befriend. Like, if you're eating something with a face, maybe you're not a vegetarian.

Skywarp is cute but it's not me. No, I'm several kinds of nerd, but Transformers-nerd isn't one of them. There's Trek, there's some manga, some tv shows, some books. I'm a bitter ex-Marvel nerd. And, yep, bitter is about the right term.