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November 15, 2009 | 46 Comments
Earlier this week, I watched Food, Inc. It’s a movie about our food and where it comes from, and it was considered “one of the scariest movies of the year” by The New York Times.
I didn’t want to see the movie because I didn’t want to know what I didn’t know. Knowing what you once didn’t know often comes with making life changes. My food ignorance was bliss. I didn’t want to give up my Perdue Fun Shapes Dinosaur Chicken Nuggets.
But alas, I realized that if I am to truly pursue a path of consciousness, I can’t turn a blind eye to the food that I eat and its origins. So I ordered Food Inc on pay-per-view.
And the terror began.
Most shocking was the treatment of the animals. The disrespect was unimaginable. I am not a vegetarian, and I’m not opposed to eating meat – though, I often consider a more vegetable-based diet. But as a meat-eater with some level of awareness, I do want the animals I eat to be treated with respect and honor (even during the killing process). I don’t want them to be knee-deep in feces, injured and suffering. The images were very hard to watch. Very, very hard.
And it wasn’t just the meat. The way crops are grown in this country is just as unethical, with patents on seeds, incomprehensible amounts of pesticides and multinational corporations bullying small farmers.
So, I now know what I didn’t know. And knowing this means that I must change. I’m leaning in to the change that I’d like to create, focusing on organic foods, free-range livestock and grass-fed cattle.
A man in Food Inc said that consumers have tremendous power and that we vote each time we buy a product. This is true to some extent. But the challenge is much greater. Not everyone has the luxury of shopping at Whole Foods or of buying a more expensive organic product. If you have $10 and a family to feed, organic isn’t an option. McDonald’s is. Our power to vote is not equal, and thus the challenge must addressed at the policy level.
I’m not holding my breath.
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I was eating very unhealthy food for years, and years, but for last two months I am eating just healthy and almost always organic and I’m planning to continue that way all my life, I feel less depressed, much more physically prepared, etc.
And I also agree that the cruelty upon animals has to stop. I feel bad for those poor creatures, but here is, on the other hand, one fact for anybody who want to watch everything from egoistic point of view: when animals survives stress before they are killed, the bad energy and vibes will stay in the body – in the meat which goes to the products we shall eat, and when we eat it, we’ll get those bad vibes…
Great post, Davey, and good luck everybody
p.s. about unhealthy food and life, have you heard about this: http://www.anhcampaign.org/campaigns/codex ? Think with your head and don’t let to be controlled, people…
You mentioned McDonalds.
In Australia they influence the market on potatoes. Type grown, shape and size…french fries.
Pickle ditto…A Big Mac without that vile green slimey slice?
They should show this movie in every high school in the G20.
I agree with you there… the food we eat is pretty bad… Meat and milk are full of antibiotics and medicine, and the veggies have way to much pesticide in them… and why should a seed have a patent on it unless it was changed genitally… which is kind of gross to think of… a tomato used to be just a tomato… but now who knows how much it was genetically changed… and what that changed can do to us who eat it… SCARY STUFF!
kool, buy from the local farmers market, have done so ,for many years….
Some people, in many countries, don’t even have the luxury of EATING, let alone being picky on what kind of food they’re putting into their bodies. I suppose we have the choice, so we should try and eat what’s best for us, but this blog post could have been put to much better use, creating awareness for how much hunger and starvation is occurring in the world at this very moment…
Just sayin’…
I remember wanting to watch this movie based on someone’s recommendation. Thank you for jogging my memory! And, thank you for your spin on the movie. I can’t wait to see it!!
Sometimes it is ad bad to poison yourself with junk food, as it is bad not to eat at all… And about “more important topics”, that is not so smart thing to say here, because there are always some bigger problems, and from such a wide view, nothing will ever be important. And second, we should deal with things we can influence on, and on the things close to us, off course, anyone who can help starving population should do it… But anyone who can help by rising the awareness about disgusting food we do eat, he or she should off course do that – and then, when someone do it, no one should moan about it, especially if his or hers only reason for the lamentation is “somewhere there are some people who don’t eat at all…”
lol, and, yeah, the best option would be to take of those shoes, and the underwear, too… lmao, we’re so evil ^^
As a massage therapist and someone who plays at photography all can think is, really nice definition on that right thigh. I would have lit it a bit differently but nice shot.
I’m lucky enough to live in a city where free range, hormone free meats and organic produce are readily available and not that much more expensive than their counterparts. I usually get a chuckle out of the ‘cruelty free’ labels…cause of death, ennui?
For me, I usually eat what’s available at the store and what I can get. I am starting to eat less red meat to reduce the methane produced by cows used for meat, but currently my option is generally locally-grown, which is potentially great but I don’t know about the local practices and such. And, of course, I wouldn’t be able to eat much at all if I tried to go all organic–as a grad student, my budget is limited. But there are some things of which I’m glad I’m at least a little bit ignorant.
Thanks for bringing awareness to this important issue.
Believe & Smile… Siempre Sonrie!!!
Good reminder!
It is always possible to make a compromise when we select our food.
I’m not used to eat at Mc Donald’s; it happens one or twice a year when I’m lazy.
I don’t eat often red meat; I prefer fish to it.
I have the chance to have a good market in downtown where I can choose good quality products, not so expensive. It only takes more time but it’s better than to put anything in my shopping cart when I’m running in a mall.
good afternoon,
bye,
This is really a great post, We have some very close ideas!
Very enjoy full reading =)
Oh I see…
ridiculous posing and over sexual innuendo = concern for the plight of animals
you really nailed this one. Can’t wait to see what issue of the day you bring up next. Maybe you could tattoo it on your penis ( if it were a small concern )
hi davey
im david, writing you from italy (the only one?)
i dont know the film food inc, but i eat only vegtables or animals where i know where they come from.
but i have a question: do you have a boyfriend now? dont you have a foto with bouth of you?
sorry for my english
ciao
david
Eating properly in our society is a complex and difficult issue. The choices we might prefer to make often are not even available, so we compromise.
Fresh produce that looks healthy and wholesome might be lacking most of its nutritional value after delays in shipping, or might be laden with pesticides and preservatives we don’t know about.
Most importantly, don’t eat the pre-packaged already-prepared frozen foods. They’re great time-savers, but they’re as bad as fast-food restaurant fare. A better time-saving strategy is to cook a little extra and warm it up the next night or two.
All we can do is aim for optimum solutions in our food supply and keep on complaining. Vote with your pocket book. If we don’t buy it, the market for it will dry up.
BTW — beautiful definition on that quadriceps! You’re going to be a Sensation in Sydney!
But please don’t overexpose yourself to the UV!
Unusual picture!!
Personaly, I didn’t look at your muscles before a blogbuddy mentionned it. I was admiring your sport shoes!!!
People always find in a picture what they want to see; and the interpretation
can be quite different from one to another!!
bye,
A good example of factory farming is the poultry and hog industries where long barns are built to confine the animals in fully self contained artificial enviroments complete with ventilation systems, and artificial lighting systems to make chickens lay more eggs.
The demand for chicken and pork is incredible. Thusly, to satisfy this demand, the animals are fed feed laced with anti-biotics (due to the close quarters of confinement and neighbouring animals), growth hormones and other substances. The need for the growth hormones is of course to make the animals grow faster and the other substances is to fatten them up for increased market value.
Last year in the UK a ventilation system failed at a poultry farm (either by accident or vandalism), in all 160,000 birds died from suffocation.
If I could afford to eat organic I would. However, being on a limited budget (read currently between positions) that isn’t an option. I’d like to think that I have the power to change things, but the power of money is pretty hard to overcome. Profits are far more important to industry and cost is far more important to consumers. And until the power of money is diminished, which I won’t hold my breath – things will probably not change much.
Yes, what we put into our bodies will affect us. We already have seen superbugs that are resistant to many anti-biotics. And I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but I have observed that children are entering into adolesance earlier than previous generations – and that can’t be all from “better nutrition”!
Poor reply. Thats all I have to say to that. I am entitled to my
own opinion…
I watched that movie and it was just surprising. i mean, i already knew all that stuff, but to actually see it (ughhh). as was said in the movie, basically the whole food busyness is corrupt and, its really sad that what goes inside of is is not a major concern to us. the animals are so mistreated, and its disgusting. chickens cant even walk because of the injected hormones making their breast excessively large in comparison to their bone structure. the cows are being fed corn! cows eat grass, they have specially adapted stomachs for that, not corn (people are so effing cheap). not to mention that they are knee high in their own feces. and the soy farmers, they are basically slaves to those major corporations!!! every thing you see in a whole grocery store probably came from 3 maybe 4 major corporations, what’s with that?!?!?! i can go on and on about this, but i think its best for me to stop.
one last thing. everyone, go support your local farmers market. the food is quite literally fresh, in season, delicious, and you can even ask where exactly the food came from.
p.s. you should read fast food nation, and the jungle
I think it is a fine reply. you are entitle to your opinion, and he was just giving his/
Not so fast there…
You can’t feed a family with $10 at McDonald’s. Menu prices for a number of fast food restaurants have went up substantially in the last 2 years.
The cheapest place to eat for anybody, is at home making the meal yourself.
So by doing that, you will eat better, period regardless of income. This is not a policy issue, it is an issue of what people choose to buy.
All crops are not grown with pesticides, etc. You need to look around a bit. Food production/sources vary. When farming wheat for example, all that is used is anhydrous ammonia and seed wheat. Simple. I can tell you that most likely there is not enough open range to feed the volume of cattle it takes to meet the current demand for beef products. Many cows are sourced from smaller operations and sold to feedlots after they are older. Farmers also feed their cattle grain/feed during winter months. The whole concept of grass-fed beef is not practical.
Anyway, farming takes effort and time and good weather. It is very important to not that not all farming is done the same way. As in practically any business, there are reputable and disreputable producers.
The whole point of this is buying foods for an affordable price so you can cook at home, but in order to maintain that price you have to mass produce things like they are doing in the video. To eat all natural and organic costs more, which many people (like myself) cant afford. Income does play a very important role in what people eat. I know Bc it is for me, a college student. Even people who have careers go for the sales and buy whatever product they might have a coupon for. So to simply say income doesnt matter is a flawed statement.
when i became aware the only option i could see was to become vegetarian and in that to also only eat organic vegetables wherever possible. i have no judgement of meat eaters and on occasion i miss it but i just could not consider an ethical argument for another being having to suffer and die for my enjoyment. i recently set up a community permaculture garden and i hope to someday find the means to create more. there are various ngo’s doing this already here and so i am hopeful. the only sustainable way forward is to go back to a village lifestyle where people love the earth that feeds them and nurture it accordingly. if we look at the global picture it is indeed scary but we need to remember that there is already enough fear and so the best course forward is to live our own lives with honesty and unconditional love for all
Thought this was appropriate http://graphjam.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/song-chart-memes-healthiness-food.jpg
what are we going to have to do to get you out of those briefs! god your so cute!
Davey, you can stay buff and stop eating meat. There is plenty of protein — healthier protein — in the plant kingdom. Walk your talk and try it. You’ll be shocked at how much it advances your personal spiritual evolution.
If you are really interested in where your food comes from and what you can do to change corporate food production, I would suggest you also read:
THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA by Michael Pollan (He was interviewed in Food Inc.)
THE END OF FOOD and THE WAR IN THE COUNTRY, both by Thomas Pawlick.
These books help you re-shape how you think about food, how you shop and how you eat.
It all boils down to GREED.
Food, Health Care, Manufacturing, Politics, Wall Street…. Slowly but surely it has become a battle of Have & Have-Not’s…and the Have’s are winning. Apathy and indifference have allowed this to happen… and will allow it to continue and worsen. Food and Farming Industries are in it for the profit. Keeping those animals safe & happy prior to slaughter would cost more! … and that equals less profit. \
The madness won’t stop until we are all eating Soylent Green….
“…as a meat-eater with some level of awareness, I do want the animals I eat to be treated with respect and honor (even during the killing process).”
Do you not see how ‘unaware’, and how ludicrous it is to say that I have respect and honour for this creature and then I will kill you and eat you.
If you take it out of the context of cows (which we prefer to call beef when we want to kill and eat them), or pigs (which we call pork, or ham, or bacon when we want to kill and eat them) it would be no different than someone in another culture taking Chipotle and butchering him for meat. (Pigs, by the way, are the most intelligent animal on a farm. They are smarter than cats and dogs and equal to a school-age child)
http://mammals.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_intelligent_pig
If some there were some life-form that came from the far reaches of the universe to earth, and they were more intelligent than us, would we reason that it is alright for them to kill and eat us for food because they were more intelligent? I don’t think so.
There are plenty of non-animal, non-cruel food sources for the whole world to eat. Your body does not NEED protein from animals to thrive. There are many cultures that have relied solely on plant-based diets for hundreds of years and have, not only survived, but have thrived physically.
Many times we defend our “right” to eat the flesh of animals, not because we believe that it is the most aware path, but rather because we love our taste buds more than we care about being aware and not creating more needless suffering in the universe. (and animals do suffer when they are butchered.)
If you really are aware put your money where your mouth is… stop eating animals, eat vegetables.
I think you are getting more shallow, you try to flirt with your audience to get people to buy 3 dollar videos so you do not have to work. It is really a sad affair, you have the chance to talk about gay rights and you instead try to take pics so your audience can look up your shorts while you eat a banana. Walking cliche’
i second that idea, use your platform davey and do something real.
try reading River Cottage’s Meat Manifesto. I very sane outlook on food production, i find:
http://www.rivercottage.net/FoodMatters/32/MeatandRight.aspx
Davey uses his good looks and sexy pics to keep large numbers of people coming to his web site, where he raises issues or comments on things from the sexual to the practical to the spiritual, to initiate dialogue. Often the intelligent and thoughtful comments from the Blog Buddies are the richest part of each day’s posts. He does other work, but the exercise video provide a side income stream. I salute Davey for finding a way to earn a living that benefits others in a variety of positive ways, and harms no one. Good job, Davey. And great comments from the thousands of Blog Buddies — many of whom would not be coming back daily it it weren’t for Davey.
The problem with a vegetarian diet is it causes flatulence, and one to emit noxious odors frequently.
“Organic” food is the biggest crock going today.
i stopped eating meat years ago. as a compassionate person i just couldnt live with myself anymore knowing that i was in any way connected with the suffering of animals. there are plenty of ways to get all the nutrition you need without meat/dairy and in the long run you feel better physically.
I support your local market shop, good for you and
good for the planet, I used to shop at the market and
now am starting to grow my own food an preserve for
winter, relaxing and safe. Will
I support your local market shop, good for you and
good for the planet, I used to shop at the market and
now am starting to grow my own food an preserve for
winter, relaxing and safe. By local, it is good
for all Will
I agree! Accept for the pictures part. I come back Bc i like what he has to say, it inspires me to be a better person and think about things I wouldnt otherwise think about. The pictures that he posts in my mind looses him credibility. Especially when he talks about what counts is on the onside and not to judge by the body and being happy with what you look like. it almost borders on hypocritical. But overall I love his stuff!
I live in a part of the country (Oklahoma) where you can’t help but to know where your food comes from, be it veggies from farms where they use tons of pesticides and who poisons our rivers and lakes with the use of chicken manure to fertilize their crops or the slaughter houses where your steaks, pork chops and chicken dinners are processed. Hell, I even worked and a chicken processing plant during high school, it’s a lot worse being in one than seeing on on film, my entire hometown smelled of death from the thousands of chickens killed 24 hours a day, that is until you get ‘used to’ the smell.
I guess what I am trying to say is that it is good for people to know where their food comes from and how it gets on their plates. And make up their own minds on the moral aspects of their eating habits. As for myself, I am pretty much jaded to the whole process of what happens to the animals that I eat, although, I would never again have any involvement in the actual process.
So to each their own and no one should or even has the right to judge others on what they decide to eat.
I forgot to mention, Davey that is the sexiest photo of you that I have seen to date. Damn, those legs of yours has got me all hot and bothered!
Sorry couldn’t resist!
I’m an animal science major at University, and while I do agree some people use unethical methods in raising and processing of animals, it is not the norm. As a matter of fact “organic” meat does not come close to ensuring that the animal was raised in a humane way or processed humanely either. All it means is the animal was fed organic foods. The sickliest animals I have seen at slaughterhouses are from the organic farms. Many organic farms can’t give their animals antibiotics or other medicines to treat illness(or they’d lose organic status) and so these animals are raised sickly, and slaughtered in pitiful shape. Myself, we raise our own cows on a small farm for our own consumption so I don’t have to worry about it, but I wouldn’t stress at all about buying organic, one may think they are better and healthier, but that has not been shown in studies. Just buy what you like
Completely true… there is not enough range area in the US to produce all grass fed animals. that is unless we want to take away land from growing grains and other foods that are helping the US feed the world.