De-Industrialized Food
Andrew O'Hehir
Friday June 12, 2009, 06:25 ETD
Our food might seem ok. It sure can be cheap. But in fact the damage it does is not worth the money we save at the grocery counter. Michael Pollen, with Robert Kenner and Eric Schlosser, created a movie about this problem. Pollen investigated American industrialized food production. Most of us prefer not to know how our food is made. That knowledge can make food less appetizing. And it faces us with moral questions we find too difficult to resolve.
Corporate food manufacturers refused Pollen's requests. He wanted to learn how they handle the food they sell us. They must be hiding something.
He discovers that the food damages our health and environment.
[Perhaps organic farming should be subsidized enough so that organic foods equal the price of corporate produce.]
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