Food Inc is a must see

This Thursday we went to see "Food, Inc." at the Angelika in Plano. All I can say is, for those who like to eat, this movie is a must see. All during the movie I kept thinking how lucky we are in Coppell to have a Farmers Market with pastured meats and local and organic produce. Most of the narration was by Michael Pollan and they had a few segments at Joel Salatin's farm where he has free range pigs and chickens. What a difference from the industrial scale chicken farms and the gigantic slaughterhouses that process most of the meat we buy in the grocery stores.

I don't have time or space to get into the other issues they brought up such as exploitation of illegal immigrants by these large operations and companies like Monsanto dominating corn and soybean agriculture with their genetically engineered crops.

Somewhat surprising was their gentle treatment of Walmart and their efforts to sell organic products in their stores. Some Walmart executives were visiting a farm that had pastured beef and they were quite honest in explaining why they were there. They said that it was because this is what shoppers are asking for so they see it as a money making enterprise.

This just illustrates a very important point. The more the customer demands this kind of food and goes out of their way to buy it, the more available and inexpensive it will be.