But the facts pointed out are shocking. After reading this and picking up the narration, you can still draw the same conclusion or worry.
industrial foods→ mass production→ quality vs quantity
abuse of workers AND animals
(affordable) fast food vs diabetes
, etc., etc.
The American people are also living in a fiery water, dear! Compared with starving to death, people will die of diabetes and fat, dear!
Moreover, in the later stage of this film, it is not only about food safety at all, dear! I started to criticize the capitalist society's super-large corporations to control everything again, dear!
Of course this is (as of 2008) the US. I don't know what the situation of Australia's "big agricultural country" is. However, the turbulent situation caused by the taxation of mining can also reflect some problems from the side.
Excerpts marked with [ ]. Just learn English! Thanks to everyone subtitles group (English subtitles)! ! !
【The image to sell the food is still the imagery of Agrarian America. (All natural. Farm fresh.)】
【It's the spinning of this pastoral fantasy.】
【There are no seasons in the American supermarkets. Now there are tomatoes all year round, grown half way around the world, picked when it's green and ripened with ethylene gas. Although it looks like a tomato, it's kind of a notional tomato.. . It's a idea of a tomato.] → I hate chemical words. By the way, how happy the vitamin seller should be.
【There is this deliberate veil, a curtain, tat's dropped between us and where our food is coming from... The reality is a factory, not a farm, it's a factory.】
【This isn't just about what we're eating. This is about what we're allowed to say, what we're allowed to know. It's just not our health tats at risk. 】It's
true that things in the supermarket stay the same all year round. Only rely on the price to determine what is in season.
Forever potatoes tomatoes green red peppers carrots onions celery. I'm going to throw up...
McDonald's "saved" the world.
Revolutionary idea of how to run a restaurant.
Some chickens never see sunlight in their entire lives. Especially large chicken farms.
Chicken breasts are getting bigger. → The genetic modification (?)
was originally three months, but now it takes 45 days, and the weight is the same.
Their legs couldn't support their weight because they couldn't keep up with the body's growth. [It's the same as the dead fat man's easy knee injury.
Chickens eat a lot of antibiotics. The chicken farmers thus became "allergic to all antibiotics and cant take them" and the
company controlled the farmers. Bank interest rolling interest farmers debt increase debt ah.
Corn has taken over the earth...
subsidies by governments to grow corns/ soybeans
【Farm policy is always focused on commodity crops, because you can store them.】
【There is an illusion of diversity... So much of our industrial food turns out to be clever re-arrangements of corns. Corn has conqured the world in a lot of ways.]
Coke? Hamburger? fries? ketchup? cold drink? Vitamin C? Calcium tablets? Battery? diaper?
Children with all corn...
Cow doesn't eat corn.
E.coli developed acid-resistance after eating too much corn feed feed?
Children eat hamburgers and die... so "Kevin's Law" → seems to have not passed in 2008
【We put faith in our government to protect us. And we're not being protected at the basic level.】
Instead of changing the whole process, the factory adopts high-tech fix, which is -- ammonia...
【Is it my illusion or ammonia It can indeed be used to clean corpses. All kinds of crime dramas appear very frequently, oh shit...
[a marriage of science and technology] → Aren't they going to be a family soon?
Low-income families are more inclined to buy fresh vegetables and fruits than to spend a lot of money on fresh vegetables and fruits. Cheap fast food - even if you might get diabetes, maybe spend more money on medicines.
99c can buy a hamburger, but not a cauliflower. Because the raw materials of the burgers are heavily subsidized → beef, corn...
[I don't know if it's my delusion, the fast food of Maoben is not very cheap. It is more cost-effective to buy vegetables and cook if you want to be full...
In the process of human evolution, be hardwared 3 tastes: salt, fat, sugar → rare in nature. Energy is now at your fingertips.
[We are outsourcing decision making to people who make decisions and don't live with the consequences of their decisions.] Hehe.
【We are all into the "how" of it, and nobody steps back and ask: "why?!"】→ High-level consulting
【A culture that just use a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure to be manipulated by whatever creative design that 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 , disrespect and controlling type mentality.] Words from Virginia Farmers. I do not want to live. I don't know three words in a sentence. Other film critics find it controversial, but I personally think it makes sense. You've seen this too!
Those caught by the immigration department and punished severely are never multinational companies. It's those black workers who work hard and work hard. For the company, black workers are just like being slaughtered by people.
【Basically you're treated like a human machine... They get people who cant afford to get out there... And tats what they hold over you.】
【To them, everything has an end. 】
【from utter contemption to accpetance]
In 2008, 90% of US soybeans already had the patent gene of Monsanto Company.
GMO: genetically modified foods
Monsanto has a 75-person surveillance team, various monitoring farmers.
【Public plant breeding is a thing in the past. There are virtually no public seeds anymore.】
Farmer A doesn’t grow GMO soybeans, but his neighbors do. A gust of wind blew, pollen seeds and the like entered his land, and even if he violated Monsanto's patent, he had to submit various proofs. →Contamination
Farmer B was sued by Monsanto for patent infringement. He had already paid a lot of money before going to court. He was told that he had to pay another 1 million after going to court. Finally had to settle out of court.
Are there any other options left to fight against a monopoly?
【I dont think I'm really guilty. But it's cheaper to pay the fine than it was to try to fight it... It gnaws at you... If you think you are right at something, but yet you admit you' re wrong.. 】
【The way the system appeared to work to me was Lady Justice had the scales and you piled cash on the scales. And the one piled the most cash on the scales, hired the most experts and the one was most willing to tell the biggest lies, that was the winner.】
[How can a farmer defend himself against a multinational corporation like Monsanto?]
Given that the identities of supervisor and supervised are often interchangeable, the middle ground is blurred. Therefore, the supervision of various institutions has also been greatly reduced.
【be dominated by the industries that it was meant to be regulating】
【It's really about what interests they decide to represent.】
【【You are talking about power, centralized power. And that power is being used to against the people who are really producing the food, like the farmers. It's being used against the workers who work for these companies. And it's being used against consumers who are deliberately being kept in the dark about what they're eating, where does it come from and what it's doing to their bodies.
]] The following paragraph is about labelling. Calories, trans fats, GMOs. Not marked or marked very small.
[78% of supermarket food already contains genetically modified ingredients. ] → The general trend?
[Meow, I saw Coke, Gatorade, and Pringles.
[one of the most important battles for consumers to fight is to know what's in their food and how it was grown]
The system's excessive pursuit of efficiency has led to various simplifications: crop fields, crop types, operating companies. The simplification will cause the instability of the system.
For example: highly mechanized (and fully promoted) agriculture is highly dependent on oil (diesel, gasoline sources), so the impact of rising oil prices has a huge impact on farmers. Therefore, food prices are also closely linked to oil prices. And when people don't have enough to eat, there will be more and more crimes...
Eating healthy is more expensive than eating junk food, so policy-level support is needed.
Just start fighting, the tobacco industry is a good example. [It seems that the price has increased and the label has become more and more conspicuous?
Although there is a lot of resistance, in a capitalist society, market demand can change the market structure (?). As long as people start to consciously choose and consume healthy food, more and more healthy food will appear in the market. →I'm not a business student anyway, that's probably what I mean!
The last song shocked me = =|||
Why is the funny video BGM in middle school suddenly so serious...
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