If you want to lose weight, go see “Food, Inc” now showing at Canal Place Cinemas in New Orleans. You’ll eat a lot less in the future, we assure you.
The documentary movie shows the way the food industry plans and prepares the food you buy at the grocery stores.
We always thought cornfed beef was the best. The movie claims that overfeeding cows with corn to make them fat quickly deprives them of the grass they need to eliminate the possibility of e-coli infection. Especially despicable is the way the industry treats the chickens, cows and hogs that end up on your dinner tables. They are massed together in pens that violate all respect for animal life. And the vegetable production, mostly corn and soybeans, doesn’t get much better treatment.
By subsidizing corn production so much, our government is hurting other countries by discouraging them from raising it which helps to support their economies.
It’s not an enjoyable movie but it is educational, provided it is accurate. Our own Monsanto industry gets especially low marks in the part it plays in genetically producing new soybean seeds it has patented. They are designed to be able to grow without the weed killer Roundup, which Monsanto produces, killing them.
Go see the movie. Then judge for yourself how much of the food, especially meats, you can eat that are produced by the big companies that are after your big dollars, not necessarily your good health or the well-being of animals.
Should feds take care of our health?
The battle over health care is getting more intense. The latest shocker is the claim that the federal government could set up a “death panel” which would determine whether or not ailing seniors should be allowed expensive treatment to keep them alive.
This could amount to euthanasia which we hope is beyond the realm of possibility. That should not be the purpose of our health care system.
But the health plan could end up being a form of socialized medicine. Do we really want the government running any of our businesses, especially those involved in our health and well-being?
We have seen how inefficient the government has been in protecting the coast of Louisiana that provides half of the commercial seafood of the nation. It takes them years, sometimes decades to study, plan, restudy and replan and then construct projects that would replicate patterns of the past that originally built up our coast with its valuable wetlands. And during that time, we keep getting closer and closer to the point of no return when our wetlands will be gone forever.
Whatever health plan the government finally considers should get a lot of scrutiny by experts in the health-care field.and the people. This could be a one-time thing that would make or break the way we live in the future.
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