Food Inc And Popcorn Don't Mix

So I broke down and saw Food Inc this weekend with Todd (he drew the short straw so mom stayed with the kids).

It said everything (and so much more) I thought it would say but was less graphic (thankfully) then I thought it would be.

Going there I expected 2 things; 1) that there wouldn’t be very many people in the theater and 2) the people there would be like me, people who basically knew the information in the movie but were going to support the film.

I was right about the first part, including Todd and me there were only about 14 people there.

However, I was wrong about the 2nd part. Two rows in front of us there was a family; mom, dad, daughter, son & grandma and they looked exactly like the people who need to see this movie. Just your average American family who didn't eat as well as they should.

They all had popcorn and candy that they were eating before the movie started but stopped eating once it did. This is not a movie that you can eat through.

There's a scene in the movie where a counselor is talking to a large group of teens about health and asks if they have someone in their family with diabetes, most of the kids raised their hands, the mother in front of us raised her hand as well.

When the movie ended I was curious if they would now buy food differently or not and I wondered what the main points were that they took away from the movie.

What were some of the main points of the movie to me?

Well one was how e-coli gets on spinach; the e-coli ridden manure from factory farmed cows gets flushed into public waterways that then waters the spinach fields.

Another was that those extra large chicken breasts at the grocery store are genetically engineered that way on chickens that are grown so abnormally fast (49 days instead of the average 3 months) that they can’t even stand up because their bones aren’t strong enough.

Also, that most of the food in the grocery store is a “clever rearrangement of corn” from sweeteners to thickening agents and batteries to packaging.

There are so many things I could tell you about that I didn't know and was shocked to find out, but I'm not going to. This truly is a movie that I think everyone should see, especially if you think you already know what it's about.