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Another book on the to read list, Stuffed…looking for solutions
Hey there! I was just catching up on a few blogs I follow and found another interesting book regarding food issues in our country. It was recommended and actually there was a giveaway for the book that several days stale. While it might be too late for the giveaway, the book could be worth a read anyway. I think Food, Inc. did a nice job helping educate us that there are serious issues in our food supply chain that need to be addressed. The one liner suggestions on solutions at the end of the movie, however don’t really cut it on solution. This is a complicated problem that won’t be…
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Round Table Discussion after Food, Inc. movie…
It’s been several weeks since I blogged about seeing the movie Food, Inc. and there are a few more points that I wanted to share about that experience. After any movie, folks usually file out of the theatre, head towards the restroom, and/or head out the door of the theatre to their remaining evening. That was not quite completely the case with this movie, Food, Inc. There were folks that congregated in the theatre lobby that wanted to talk about what they had just seen. It was a bit of an impromtu discussion. Some of the passing comments that I heard echoed my thought that the movie was not as graphic as expected. (click here…
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Food, Inc. – Nature as throughput
I and several like minded girlfriends got together last night to view the movie, Food, Inc. The FDA is in the midst of passing laws that involve trying to keep our food safe. Even if you live in a vacuum, the news of tainted food is getting to you. It’s been in peanut butter, poultry, spinach, tomatoes, beef to name a few. If you are a soap and/or cosmetics maker, you are aware of cosmetics being lumped into this same bucket. It is only recently that the subjects have been separated a bit. Food, Inc. was not as graphic as I was expecting yet the pictures helped drive home the point.…
