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chinoisfemme:

News story about Tyson (of Tyson Chicken) passing from ‘complications of cancer’ today made me think of this film again. If you haven’t seen this yet, please do. If you care about your health, watch this film.

Food, Inc. starts with this line. “The way eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the last 10,000”.

“Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.”

We are what we eat.