Comments on: Eat Your Corporations – Food Inc.

By: FarmApartment » Diggin’ School

FarmApartment » Diggin’ School — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:34:07 +0000

[...] watching Food Inc. and learning how big Agri-business has us by the Brussels Sprouts, my day spent volunteering with [...]

By: Evangeline

Evangeline — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:48:04 +0000

Yes – you are lucky! I’m in the middle of reading Micheal Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma in which, among other things, he dissects the varying degrees of industrialization on organic farms. I think we can probably find a happy medium in which organic farmers can use technology to responsibly increase production without bastardizing their product. Sorry you got fooled by the hearty farmer lady. I wonder how her hands got so dirty and mangled – not pickin’ garlic!

By: Eleanor

Eleanor — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:32:13 +0000

Hi Evanne – Great post. I’ve wanted to see this doc for some time now. There was a Euro-version of this called “We Feed the World” or something. It ended with the CEO of Nestle (who to me seems like a real sinister SOB) suggesting that water should be privatized!

Anyway – I’m lucky to live in a country that is the worlds largest consumer of organic foods – but even organic or ‘bio’ as it’s called here can get pretty industrialized. I am really trying to buy local food at farmers markets – not only for the treatment of animals but to support small scale family farms – which are abundant in Bavaria (and subsidized by the govt) That can be hard though too! Yesterday I went to the Viktualienmarkt (the big farmers market in the middle of town) and went to my favorite stand run my a hearty looking woman with dirty mangled hands (her stuff has gotta be good, right?) I bought a head of garlic and then right away noticed that the sign on the basket said the garlic was from China! Constant vigilance required, man.