Guilt, Inc.
I know Food, Inc. isn’t a new movie, but I saw it recently for the first time. I made sure to watch it AFTER having finished all my eating for the day. Good thing too, because that was probably the last day I will ever enjoy a meal.
I find documentaries can really shake me to the core unlike any other art form… even a good book. You know the drill: 1) See movie, 2) emerge silent and pensive, 3) begin discussion, 4) create personal mandates, 5) wake up the next day and live exactly the same way.
The one exception may well be An Inconvenient Truth. I no longer drive a car in the wake of that movie. But then again, was it really the movie or did the movie simply deliver the knockout blow in a mental boxing match I was having with my conscience?
I would now like to test myself, so please recommend a good documentary and I will watch it. Preferably on a topic I have rarely thought about… that way it will be a truer indication of the effect a film can have on my decision-making.
R.I.P P.F.I
(rest in peace to my Pre-Food Inc. life)
Here’s the trailer:
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My name is Jason Osler. I am a Toronto-based journalist with a zeal for telling humourous stories of the “every person.” My specialty is identifying and exploring social trends that reside in the subconscious.
The majority of my work airs on CBC Radio’s Metro Morning – Toronto’s #1 morning show. My theme music is “People Everyday” by Arrested Development.
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I know what you mean – this doc shocked me to the core too – I think the new “Silent Spring” issue of this generation is entirely situated around food. Food choices have become the new political playing arena – which I think is appalling, given food is such a fundamental building block of human life, along with air and water. Argh!
But the only way we can effect any kind of change is with our choices. I can’t belive how evangelical that sounds, especially coming from me – non vegetarian, chocolate addicted, not a huge label reader. But how can this weird scenario with manufactured food be reversed unless people just stop buying it..and how do you get tons of people to ‘just stop buying it’?
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The alarm rate has to get higher. As with the repercussions of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, so too, must come the tipping point for the food industry.
Comment by Lauren Taylor | February 5, 2010