jverne
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i'm sure Eejit will have a lot to say.
let's clear up something first...yeah, it's subliminally anti-corporation (even tough they do interview or try to contact these corporations).
what makes it stand out, that the lady narrator actually used real lab results for her arguments and other more or less valid tests.
she interviews farmers that actually work for the mentioned supermarkets and even then it's not a pretty picture.
it's a tiny bit sensationalist, but the fact that she doesn't outright throw shit at the retailers, makes it decent in my book. in some parts it actually criticizes the consumer.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5774892958354867332&hl=en part 1
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3486838871531386599 part 2
things that interested me
let's clear up something first...yeah, it's subliminally anti-corporation (even tough they do interview or try to contact these corporations).
what makes it stand out, that the lady narrator actually used real lab results for her arguments and other more or less valid tests.
she interviews farmers that actually work for the mentioned supermarkets and even then it's not a pretty picture.
it's a tiny bit sensationalist, but the fact that she doesn't outright throw shit at the retailers, makes it decent in my book. in some parts it actually criticizes the consumer.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5774892958354867332&hl=en part 1
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3486838871531386599 part 2
things that interested me
-practices of animal husbandry and process...they actually showed proof that badly treated animals are not a rarity and they do end up on shelves of supermarkets
-nutritional and taste value of industry produced food...i think this is the least disputed part of the video. i can vouch for the taste...homegrown fruits are incomparably more delicious than what you can get in standard supermarkets.
-bad practices in agriculture and food waste...makes me even more skeptical about the benefit of GM foods. obviously caloric value is not an issue, but as Eejit will point out nutritional value is...well considering how much space is wasted to produce waste food we could just grow a richer variety of vegetables/fruit and of course our practice to process vegetables/fruits that lose up to 50% of their vitamin value (i.e. freezing food...sending it 3000 miles away just to be processed and back again). i really believe super foods will just further perpetrate our bad habits. as for use of pesticides...obviously the use of these is overdone due to ridiculously high standards for fresh food. (i.e. the farmer being potentially rejected due to a few rotten specimens).
-nutritional and taste value of industry produced food...i think this is the least disputed part of the video. i can vouch for the taste...homegrown fruits are incomparably more delicious than what you can get in standard supermarkets.
-bad practices in agriculture and food waste...makes me even more skeptical about the benefit of GM foods. obviously caloric value is not an issue, but as Eejit will point out nutritional value is...well considering how much space is wasted to produce waste food we could just grow a richer variety of vegetables/fruit and of course our practice to process vegetables/fruits that lose up to 50% of their vitamin value (i.e. freezing food...sending it 3000 miles away just to be processed and back again). i really believe super foods will just further perpetrate our bad habits. as for use of pesticides...obviously the use of these is overdone due to ridiculously high standards for fresh food. (i.e. the farmer being potentially rejected due to a few rotten specimens).
