Green Options » food system http://greenoptions.com/tag/food-system Posts tagged 'food system' Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:35:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en “Food Inc.” Exposes the Putrid Underbelly of Factory Farming http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/04/13/food-inc-exposes-the-putrid-underbelly-of-factory-farming/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/04/13/food-inc-exposes-the-putrid-underbelly-of-factory-farming/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:35:46 +0000 Rhonda Winter http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/04/13/food-inc-exposes-the-putrid-underbelly-of-factory-farming/ This post contains additional media. Click here to view the full post.

“You’ve got a small group of multinational corporations who control the entire food system, from seed to the supermarket.”

A new documentary film, “Food Inc.“, exposes a frightening portrait of how dysfunctional and destructive our food system has become, and how dishonest corporations repeatedly compromise safety for profit. The movie illustrates how our nation is almost totally divorced from seasonal food, biodiversity and local production. We have entrusted the safety of our food system to a small handful of huge greedy corporations that are destroying us and the planet with massive monoculture factory farms and poisonous chemicals. According to Michael Pollan, this movie is “The most important film about our food system in a generation”. This excellent documentary was made by Robert Kenner and co-produced by Eric Schlosser, of Fast Food Nation fame; it is scheduled to be released on June 12 of this year.

]]> http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/04/13/food-inc-exposes-the-putrid-underbelly-of-factory-farming/feed/ Eat Those Words: A Reading List to Cook Up a New Food System http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/08/13/eat-those-words-a-reading-list-to-cook-up-a-new-food-system/ http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/08/13/eat-those-words-a-reading-list-to-cook-up-a-new-food-system/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:43:04 +0000 Lisa Kivirist http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/08/13/eat-those-words-a-reading-list-to-cook-up-a-new-food-system/ Kriss Marion, Circle M Farm (Blanchardville, Wisconsin)Confess: You’re a closet cookbook junkie, too. I admit, my foodie reading gut tends to lean toward literature that involved ingredient lists, serving sizes and centerfolds of juicy eggplants. But I’m on a mission to diversify my diet, still under the umbrella of my passion for food – but stirring things up with perspectives on the bigger picture of our food system and the role we as individual eaters can play in advocates for change.

Warning: Reading such literature can prompt you to quit your day job, follow new dreams and move to a farm in southwestern Wisconsin – or other paths of change that may not currently be in your big picture life plan. That’s exactly what happened to my fellow farmer friend, Kriss Marion, who traded the Chicago scene in 2005 to launch Circle M Farm in Blanchardville, Wisconsin, running a CSA (community supported agriculture) and a fiber business. “People often ask me how it happened that we uprooted our city family and came to be market farming in southwest Wisconsin,” explains Marion. “The answer, plain and simple, is books.”

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