Beyond "Food, Inc": Other Documentaries Exposing Food Ills

"Food, Inc," did a great job of exposing the intense mechanization of the animal food industry. As I was watching it my stomach churned thinking about eating animals grown and processed in that fashion. I wondered if others weren't watching the same images and feeling indifference to the disconnection between food and ourselves, and rather were feeling awe at the mechanized "progress" that allows so many people to eat "cheap" meat daily.

I have a few other documentary suggestions that I feel do a better job explaining the agricultural problems associated with our modern food system. "The Future of Food" (2004) does a wonderful job explaining the pervasiveness of genetically modified foods in our food system and the implications therein. This movie can be interlibrary loaned via the Michigan library system.  One can also watch it via this link http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2008/07/21/watch-the-future-of-food-online-for-free/

"The World According to Monsanto," (2008) focuses on the biotechnology giant, Monsanto, and its role over the last half-century in the development and distribution of Agent Orange, rBGH, PCSs and gentically-engineered crops. This movie is definitely dryer than "The Future of Food," but broader in perspective than strictly food orientated documentaries.  It's not available in the Michigan library system, yet...but you can watch it via the world wide web. Here's that link http://twilightearth.com/environment-archive-2/the-world-according-to-monsanto-full-documentary/