ยป Food, Inc.
Holy fucking shit!
Reification of food leads to reification of Soylent Green is people! You’re not really buying a tomato anymore, you’re buying a tomato signifier — the pictures of farms on food packaging have replaced the actual farms — postmodern, hyperreal food!
I consider myself a non-practicing vegan. It might be time to get religion on this one — and no tofu, it’s bad for guys and good for Monsanto. Not for protest, not to wallet-vote, just for basic health.
The hidden message of the film is that Wall Street growth expectations (surprise, surprise) are ruining everything. Except, that is, organic producers who are growing fantastically (begin countdown to corruption… now).
Keep in mind: I’m a steak-eating capitalist. The food system is just that disgusting (Canada is no better, our beef is all processed in America).
Holy shit again! You can’t even eat vitamin pills without them containing animals. Everything is the worst.
Jack
30 Oct 09 at 1:15 am
The antidote to that apathy is to keep watching documentaries about the American food system — disgusting. “The majority of American veteran amputees lost limbs to type two diabetes.”
I want to find a doc about Eurofood. The things I ate in the restaurants around Seillans were fantastic, like nothing you can get here — not even close. Like, it makes me think we don’t use all of our tongues. Plus, everyone in the graveyard there was over 100 years old.
Jack
30 Oct 09 at 2:44 am
Food Inc is propaganda.
Jared
30 Oct 09 at 10:17 am
What exactly does being a non-practicing vegan entail?
Brynn
30 Oct 09 at 11:15 am
I eat whatever I like, but think veganism is how I should be eating. It might be a Catholic thing.
Jack
30 Oct 09 at 11:51 am
Maybe you should just be a vegan on Fridays and during lent?
I’m taking too much joy in mocking you. It might be a Protestant thing.
Don
30 Oct 09 at 12:32 pm
Once I did a Ramadan-style fast during Lent just to prove I could to a Muslim friend. The Islamic strictures are far, far stronger than the Catholic ones and tend to lead to binge/starve cycles while simultaneously putting you in obsessive touch with the exact time of sunset.
It was interesting — the most we were ever asked to do as kids was fast for 24 hours, which is a total walk in the park. Normally Lenten fasts are related to specific sins (“I promise Jesus not to each so much candy”), not blanket activities (“I promise Mohammed, PBUH, not to eat while the sun is up for a month”).
If I’m babbling the reason will become clear shortly. I’m working on a photo essay I just shot on the relay.
Jack
30 Oct 09 at 12:44 pm
I wouldn’t expect a non-practicing Catholic to be into idols, murdering, adultery and theft – maybe just coveting and a little wrongful use of the name of God. You’ve strayed pretty far from the flock with your leather couch and foie gras, eh Jack?
Jared
30 Oct 09 at 4:10 pm
Evidently you’ve never seen The Sopranos.
Jack
30 Oct 09 at 9:32 pm
Weren’t those practising Catholics?
Don
30 Oct 09 at 9:58 pm
Yeah, so imagine what you can get away with when you’ve lapsed!
Jack
31 Oct 09 at 1:38 pm