I think, Mrs.Tin , that every high school kid should see this film because they are the ones that have to stop the madness. This so relates to the health care issues because all these sick and future sick people are imploding the system.
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amen, Doc.
I have heard the kids say so much that they hate their lunches. At the school I sub at the most, they either eat some form of chicken or pizza every day. When I was coming up, we had pizza ONE day a week. It was a treat not the staple.

Mrs. Tin, yes, I think it was once a month when I went to school. A real treat.

I think the film makes you think twice about not only meat, Sarah, but ---

High Fructose Corn Syrup--Who would have thought this could be so harmful?
And it is in everything. Tricks the body into never feeling full with the leptin effect.

Can't get those visuals out of my mind. Those chickens. Would people really eat them if they saw what they were eating? Sick, deformed, lame, insane resemblances of chickens.

The saddest part was the family that couldn't afford the broccoli but could buy Burger King and feed the family.
The father's meds were $200/mo. and will only get worse. This is the trickle down effect of the "savings" of a corn fed world. People are getting obese and chroncally ill and they don't know why.

Please, everyone rent this film from Netflix or watch it on PBS.
The future depends on making a change.

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Reminiscing on the middle and high school lunch options (15 years ago) - "Pizza" and tater tots were the obvious staples... there every day with a huge bottle of ranch dressing for dipping. It wasn't even really pizza though... more like a soggy once-frozen bready rectangle with cheese and finely ground meat on top. Yum.

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jpegg you are right on the money about the ranch and tater tots. takes me back.

Seriously, HFCS is terrible. and try finding products that are affordable that don't have it in them. Monsanto be damned as well.

It is sad about people being able to get fat food and not a healthy alternative for a better price. Doesn't make sense. There are farmers who are paid not to produce and Monsanto will sue if you are a seed saver and natural grower. Really, if their genetically modified crop happens to cross with a nearby farmer's crop they will shut that farmer down. Crazy. If anybody has any new info on this please share.

I couldn't eat chicken for a while after watching the movie and I grew up in a county where chicken plants supported alot of families.

Sometimes I wonder though if our food consumption and poor health are a BIG BROTHER way of controling society with the help of some companies like McD's and Coke. It makes you wonder, doesn't it?

( if you happen to not hear from me in several days, know that BB did get me for mentioning the all powerful Monsanto, McD and Coke...... hahaha, no really)

As a 40 year vegetarian and elementary school teacher and dad and granddad, I am sympathetic to the outcry against the food industry. However, I am also tired of excuses for not taking personal responsibility. Cost? A simple, vegetarian non-processed, non-alcoholic (now I am stepping on some toes), non-tobacco, non-cable lifestyle is cheaper BOTH in the short and long run. We first became veges for economic reasons as much as health. I don't want the government dictating what I can eat.

Education people. And consequences. Let people take personal responsibility for their choices. Stop looking down on the lower classes and saying, "Poor souls can't take care of themselves. Let us educated folk take care of you all." That's not how people moved up in our society in the past, and it won't work now. We have half a century of evidence to back that up.

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Rejoice always, Mark

Bobz,
I can understand where you're coming from, but I have to agree it's cheaper to eat fast food than it is to eat organic. Prepare a meal for 3 using only ingredients from EarthFare to a meal for 3 off the value menu at McDonalds...it's a no contest in favor of fast food. Price-wise, anyway.

Most people that live below the poverty line are also obese because it's cheaper to buy junk food. It's a sad state of affairs, but there's no denying that it's true.

Nice point BobZ. That was a great article. I remember when it came out. Not only longetivity but quality of life. I remember , I believe it was the Hunza couple, they were like 110 years old and quoted as only having sex "once a day now." Incredibe vitality.

Ben- I am glad they showed it in your school. I spoke with a teacher and she told me they were going to show it but decided not to because it would scare the kids.I am scared for the kids not seeing this because even the middle class kids I see are suffering obesity, ADHD, asthma, allergies and diabetes.

blasto--that is an interesting argument. Short term, instant gratification, yes, might be true. Sad, but true. Of course, a meal of brown rice, beans and veggies isn't that expensive and will make the cells of your body sing, dance and rejoice. However, I understand that too many people's taste buds have been destroyed by chemical flavor enhancers so that this delicious meal may seem bland compared to a barbequed bacon cheeseburger with MSG laden condiments. Even with the 24 ounce soda with a million grams of high fructose corn syrup it just might be cheaper. But the cells of your body will react to this sludge by becoming gunky and eventually shut down in the long run.

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I think there's probably a healthy medium. The industry and subsidy system could definitely be reformed to help benefit the broader spectrum of people and smaller, local farms, or even failing reform, a greater degree of support for independent operators- a small farm wanting to process their own dairy or meat basically has to play by the rules intended to keep CAFOs and high-quantity producers safe, as far as I understand it, which makes it hard for them when they are on such a smaller scale, which is generally safer and higher quality because of that scale.

But, we the people definitely do have to put our money and actions where our mouths are.

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Free is not your right to choose, It's answering what's asked of you, To give the love you find until it's gone.

Here's a site that a friend of mine just started. I can't afford to buy organic either but she has some great ideas for pretty cheap without going that route.

http://www.brokeandhealthy.com/

Thanks Flavor. That is a great site. No excuses now to go to Burger King because it is cheaper.

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Great site. Now I'm really hungry!

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Rejoice always, Mark