When you see what people eat everyday in documentaries like these you feel like sticking your fingers down your throat. Or if you’re lucky like me and some perfect saint put you onto veganism, you’re feeling very, very grateful.

You’ve got to watch it. Food, Inc. is a  conscious, humane and educational documentary – a very large step in the right direction. The theme is we consumers have the power to change world around us. But we need to be conscious and informed – we need to wake up and we need to care.

Just about everything about our food needs to be changed but there’s no need to make revolution. The system can be changed from the inside. Buy what you want more of. Be the change. Vote with your dollars.

Food Inc does a great job of pointing out the total corporatization of food and some ways that hurts us as well as the animals.

Lo – A blind spot

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Here we go. A halo-bearing grass-fed beef farmer saving us from the clutches of the demonic industries with the power of his love for all that is natural and right.

Would you agree that it’s much worse to be tortured slowly to death than to be shot instantly? This means it’s better to be shot point blank. But with other options around, being shot is not really the best solution to the problem of getting killed.

And with other solutions readily available, grass-fed beef is not the solution to the industrial food complex’s treatment of animals.

He is very convinced and convincing:

I mean a culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, to be manipulated by whatever creative design the human can foist on that critter, will probably view individuals within its community and other cultures in the community of nations, with the same type of disdain and disrespect and controlling type mentality.  -  One very convinced beef farmer

As a film designed to remove a large blind spot for its viewers, it’s harder to forgive the blindness. Grass-fed beef still creates copious greenhouse gas emissions (though industry lobbies are trying to confuse this with good PR – beware the ‘carbon neutral cow’) and is still dangerous to your long-term health. We’re talking prostrate cancer and heart disease for men and breast cancer for women, as well as general reductions in many areas of health.

The best solution is overlooked

Food Inc is screaming for an epilogue introducing the plant-based diet as the easiest, healthier and most climate friendly and environmentally friendly solution available to us. Plant-based diets can reduce a person’s carbon ‘foodprint’ by up to 94% (for organic).