Jim’s still moping around sick, and hasn’t shaved in three days. My work here is stymied and we’re not going anywhere this weekend so one of my instant picks on Netflix (one you don’t have to get in the mail) was Food, Inc.
It is a highly educational, sad, frightening look at most of the foods we eat today and the few companies who grow them, all of the institutional food companies denied interviews. We get a lot of our food locally through farmers markets six months of the year and through a local delivery company year-round. We even get fresh milk in glass (returnable) bottles, eggs, bacon, sausage, apple juice (unfiltered and fresh-squeezed) and orange juice delivered to our door weekly.
One thing I learned is that our food supply is not safe and the Feds are doing nothing about it; the second is harder to get through this thick skull, that if we consumers demand change, changes will be made. And enact Michael’s Law, which would allow (hopefully impel) the FDA to crack down on repeat health code violators who give salmonella and e coli to customers, sickening some and killing others.
The quality (or lack thereof) of the food we eat has a direct result on our wallets, our health, our future, our world. Good viewing, Dee
Cooking with Dee 