If you care about your health and what you eat, you should watch this documentary. Food awareness is becoming a 'high agenda' item and irrespective of yet another travesty of corporate greed and how governments do their bidding in return for lobbyist payments, while it demonstrates how populations literally swallow any rubbish thrown at them. One thing that shines through this offering is the sincerity and the conviction that the growers and consumers clearly have in the excellent products that have clear health benefits. The production of the film is as raw as the milk it examines but this does not hide the inalienable right for growers and consumers to engage in a 1-2-1 contract that is being undermined in a way that yet again show the state taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut. I don't know how many more examples of oppression we have to witness before people actually become motivated to act? As a non US resident I have to wonder why Ron Paul does not garner more support?
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The Truth About Farming and the USDA in the US
cnharvey210 April 2014
Warning: Spoilers
This documentary is truly revealing and alarming. All consumers should be aware of what they are putting into their bodies but at the very LEAST they should have the freedom to choose what they consume.
As a new buyer of locally grown food, I was disappointed, but not entirely surprised to discover how backwards and dishonest the USDA is toward the local farmer. I WAS surprised, however, to hear that the federal government is so hostile toward the local farmer that it sends armed police officers in to terrify, humiliate and hold growers at gunpoint while FDA officials raid their farms. This is wrong on so many levels.
This film attempts to provide an answer for why the government feels the need to crack down on small farmers and prevent them from making their own decisions about food. If you're a conscious consumer, you should watch this.
As a new buyer of locally grown food, I was disappointed, but not entirely surprised to discover how backwards and dishonest the USDA is toward the local farmer. I WAS surprised, however, to hear that the federal government is so hostile toward the local farmer that it sends armed police officers in to terrify, humiliate and hold growers at gunpoint while FDA officials raid their farms. This is wrong on so many levels.
This film attempts to provide an answer for why the government feels the need to crack down on small farmers and prevent them from making their own decisions about food. If you're a conscious consumer, you should watch this.
Never accept a drink from a urologist
tieman6410 November 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Well-meaning but superficial, Kristin Canty's "Farmageddon" documents the hounding of small community farmers by state officials operating in cohorts with multinational corporations. At least that's Canty's thesis. A lack of resources and various legal issues prevent Canty from proving this conclusively.
"Farmageddon's" other assertion, that the private sector is only interested in providing foods with long shelf lives but little nutritional content, is equally poorly argued. Which is not to say that Canty is wrong – she's absolutely correct – just that her attempts at investigative analysis lack both investigation and analysis. This is frustrating, as global food production/distribution is an important issue. Intimately tied to ethics, science, global energy networks, and our whole economic and governmental systems, food is never just about food. But it'll take a genius to make a thorough documentary about these issues. Candy, in contrast, has bitten off more than she can chew.
7/10 - Worth one viewing.
"Farmageddon's" other assertion, that the private sector is only interested in providing foods with long shelf lives but little nutritional content, is equally poorly argued. Which is not to say that Canty is wrong – she's absolutely correct – just that her attempts at investigative analysis lack both investigation and analysis. This is frustrating, as global food production/distribution is an important issue. Intimately tied to ethics, science, global energy networks, and our whole economic and governmental systems, food is never just about food. But it'll take a genius to make a thorough documentary about these issues. Candy, in contrast, has bitten off more than she can chew.
7/10 - Worth one viewing.
Regulations are... bad?
imdb-487-88156119 June 2017
On the one hand, we are constantly being told that "corporations" need to be regulated because they are inherently evil. We don't have regulations, it is claimed, because there is a conspiracy. Yet when regulations are in place, folk complain just the same. Regulations are not for me! They are for them! So it must be a conspiracy too, apparently. And, of course, it is also masterminded by evil corporations. So, what's the common thread. It is all part of a conspiracy, no matter what. Indeed. So is this very website, the internet itself, and, of course, the planet we inhabit. All of it can be easily explained as a conspiracy. There. I "conspired" to saved you the time to watch this documentary.
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