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Food, Inc.
As someone with a nutrition background, I was excited to see Food, Inc. make it to theaters. As a vegan, it proved to be a little less palatable than expected. Food, Inc. is eye-opening, but doesn't really cover anything that most people aren't already aware of. Most people know that animal slaughter is despicable, fruits and vegetables are genetically modified, and that pesticides and chemicals are poisoning our food and our planet.
From a vegan's perspective, it was difficult to watch how Food, Inc. puts animals into the same category as food. Animals are not needed for food. While the movie does show accurate footage of conditions within slaughter houses, it seems to allude to the idea that "free-range" and "organic" is somehow better. One good thing was that they did show an "organic," free-range" farmer slitting the necks of chickens and removing their innards in an unsanitary, outside area.
The thing that is most troubling about "happy meat" is that people get so tied up in the way animals are being treated, they forget that the animals still must be slaughtered. And for what? It's widely known that a vegan diet is better for animals, the environment, and health no matter how "organic," "gluten-free," "local," or "unprocessed" your diet may be.
The movie mentions that animal agriculture does waste resources such as water, land, and gasoline, but they fail to make a clear suggestion for an alternative. The alternative would be to go vegan and stop living on a diet that requires animals to be fed food and take up land that could be used to feed people directly.
Let's stop pretending like people don't have the ability to stop eating animal products. Anyone can look at the facts and agree that veganism is the way to go to solve all of these problems, but I guess we're not "ready" yet to talk about veganism in a movie that is out in theaters. While I think this movie did cover some important points, it could have offered a better solution than telling people to "go local and organic."
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