PDF Food, inc. takes a fact-supported look at agribusiness. It’s not a pretty picture.
This book is a companion publication to the movie by the same name and includes much material and additional detail that simply could not be reasonably crammed, wedged, shoehorned or otherwise forced into the movie.
If, like me, you missed the movie, you want to get this book. Really … you want this book. If you saw the movie, you still want this book … because you’ve already forgotten most of the movie.
The impact of the food we eat on our health, the impact on those who produce it and the impact on our precious natural resources must be met by a personal determination to ‘do better’ with our food choices and practices.
Readers of this blog are already organic gardeners … and that’s the gold standard for a healthy diet and a healthy planet … but there are steps that even we can take to ‘do better’ – not the least of which is spreading this information as widely as it is in our power to do.
Most of us are still eating meat, for instance. We can have a tremendous impact on the health of the planet simply by eating ‘vegan’ (no meat or animal products at all) once a week. With our gardens starting to produce again, this should be fairly simple to accomplish. As I have gained experience with this diet, I have found it desirable to eat a diet that is predominantly ‘fruit/grain/vegetable’ with -tiny- amounts of cheese and butter. I reserve my meat eating for those rare occasions when I am a guest in a friend’s home or simply MUST eat at a fast-food establishment and simply cannot stomach yet another dry and unimaginative salad in a plastic tray.
That’s not perfection and it won’t meet PETA’s standards for food blessedness, but it works for me and it is a far cry from where I used to be.
I’m doing my part … care to join me?
