(Thank God for Netflix instant-watch movies, or I'd be numbing my brain on infomercials yet again.)
This is a documentary that shows us where our food actually comes from. I've made it through industrial chicken and beef farming, and am literally feeling sick to my stomach. The truth is, very little of the food choices that are available to us at the supermarket are produced in such a way that we would be proud to eat them. Nor are they terribly healthy or nourishing for our bodies.
This wouldn't be as discouraging, except that I had just finished watching "Supersize Me" (the documentary where a guy eats nothing but McDonald's for four weeks and has his health monitored by a team of doctors throughout).
I finished that movie thinking "Okay, well that was a good reminder of how important it is to eat homemade foods as often as possible. No problem, I can continue to work on that. I've got bananas in the freezer. Tomorrow: homemade banana bread for the kids. We've got nothing to worry about."
"Food Inc." is showing me that I have more to be worried about than fast food. I need to learn more about what I am buying at the grocery store, and maybe stop buying certain things altogether. Not only for the health consequences, but out of disgust for the way the animals are treated. I was a vegetarian for six years for those very reasons, but had forgotten them in the convenience and pleasure of buying and cooking whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted.
Our small garden only has some lettuce, swiss chard and sugar snap peas ready right now, and the chickens haven't started laying yet, so we're a far cry from self-sufficiency.
I don't have any answers yet on what our options are, but I'm not done thinking about it. More on this later.
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