Great food for thought (pun intended). I'm going through a tough time financially, so I'm frequently relying on cheap food to keep going, which I can feel affecting my health. I'm more tired, prone to headaches and losing concentration easily. I'm trying to eat better but the whole situation is leaving me a bit depressed and demotivated to change, and so it's hard. But definitely going to check this doc out and hopefully start going in the right direction! Thanks, Myles!
Wow!!! Thank you for giving me tools to convince my dad that my sister and I are not crazy, we can make a difference. I loved your phrase “ there’s nothing more invasivethan putting things into your body”. He also helped me deciding if I should go vegan vegetarian or not. Muchas gracias! 🙏🏿
I watched this documentary last year and I thought it was brilliant at exposing just how corrupt the American political system is. I was already aware of a lot of the stuff to do with how they produce meat on a massive scale but to see just how little the government can do to regulate it and shut things down if they have salmonella or e. coli etc present at these factories shocked me. Since I watched this documentary I now don't believe the American government has much control over any laws and regulations. The whole country is run by big business and they can do whatever they want. Capitalism has gone too far in the USA. Would love to hear what you think of our (UK) government when it comes to food regulation. Is it as bad as the US? I personally don't thinks so but I could be massively misinformed
I guess that may depend on how deep your previous conservative governments had cut their ministries and departments involved. Here in Canada our previous government have pretty much caused some industries to self-regulate, cutting inspectors left and right to save a few dollars. :-/
@canucktunes As far as I'm currently aware some areas of UK food production are getting better. My understanding is that we no longer farm chickens in the same horrible battery farming conditions after a public outcry, and our cows live in fields and are fed on grass and natural feed after the BSE scare of the late 90's. GMOs are banned under EU law (though I personally don't have a problem with GMOs). I could be wrong about all this
You're so right! Once you know the horror of producing meat it is impossible to find bacon or any other type of meat 'delicious'. I would add that once you realise that the dairy industry is even worse than the meat industry it's no hardship giving up dairy.
I’ve always been under the impression France is a heavy-meat eating country and sells a lot of meat. I don’t think Americans would buy a lot of it if they weren’t accustomed to it but by the time the youngest generation (alpha) sees it, gets used to it and grows up they’d probably revert back to selling tons of meat
Doc Watch = Brilliant Idea - will definitely be looking for this film. It's pretty much what I've been thinking for a long time, but one thing that is hard for low income families is choosing to eat selectively - supermarkets have forced alternatives out of business or to "remote" areas for a lot of people, e.g. farmers' markets, so the inflated prices for fruit and veg, "healthier" packaged meats (usually labelled "Finest" or similar) isn't an option, and they are therefore in a vicious circle. What would help is if all schools offered only well balanced and healthy meals, educating children as well as feeding them. My mother started this at her school over 20 years ago and it made a huge difference to the choices children made when choosing what to eat out of school, as well as influencing their families to eat somewhat healthier at home. Going back to the issue of pricing, I live near Ealing Road in Wembley, and we have a number of good butchers there (Halal, which is not packaged, tastes better and is cheaper) as well as great fruit and veg shops typically charging less than 50% of the prices in local supermarkets - how can that be? I'm old enough (just!) to remember when you went to the high street to shop for everything - the side effect of this? Community - people socialised in the shops, got to know and trust the shopkeepers, and were excising at the same time without knowing it - all in all a much healthier situation physically and mentally, as well as for the ecosystem supplying the goods. It's OK to run out of something in the shops - it's natural - we'll find out how natural when the growth boosting drugs, pesticides and fertilisers that we're continually pumping into the ecosystem reach tipping point (we're nearly there as bees are in danger of extinction) and we'll run out of natural resources to meet the demand on a basic level, never mind the overly indulgent level that we're at now.
The first film I ever watched that put me on a path to a better diet was “The Beautiful Truth”. I didn’t see it mentioned in this thread but I may have missed it, so if I’m repeating it forgive me. It’s far from the best documentary I’ve seen on the subject but it is quite eye-opening.
Hungry For Change is a must. Got The Facts On Milk (aka The Milk Documentary) is eye opening. Fat Sick and Nearly Dead is good. Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story is excellent re: how much good food is wasted in the world. i also loved the BBC specials The Men Who Made Us Fat and The Men Who Made Us Spend. PBS Frontline episode The Trouble With Chicken is like a mini Food Inc, but focusing mainly on poultry industry. Planeat i liked, and i loved Mad Cowboy (Howard Lyman story). i love hearing from people who have lived both sides of the issue, then make a decision
Great idea Myles.I wish more people would question their relationship to environment.Glad to hear you are health conscious in so many ways.I saw "Earthlings" two years ago.Drove to the venue.Coming home I pulled over the side of the road and sobbed something crazy.I have eaten almost "zilch" meat since.Really happy you have such a wonderful attitude to life.There are many blind mass consumers of everything today.Blaming everything but.Starts with each individuals self nurturing.Kudos.
heard about this video about two months ago, just watched it and your review is amazing. i loved how they gave us informative choices about changing the food industry at the end.
I watched Food, Inc. several years ago! I love that documentary! Probably one of my favorites! I love the straight forward message of the old way of farming was the best way to do it!
Food Inc. is an interesting documentary and we've made discoveries and advancements since then that I thought i'd mention. Manure management. According to the EPA the states has successfully reduced their methane output by capturing and using methane to generate power, resulting in agriculture now only being responsible for 8% of the methane emissions in the states. There have also been some advancements in carbon monoxide emissions but they're still working on Nitrous Oxide emissions, most of which comes from fertilizers. In regards to meat consumption, it has been scientifically established that the moderate consumption of red and processed meat is healthy. But unfortunately these is an overconsumption of red and processed meat in American society. And the methods used to cook some foods result in the release of heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, two mutagenic agents that can harm a person's DNA and may result in cancer. Studies have found that the release of these agents can be reduced by simply reducing the cooking temperature and/or changing the cooking method. There have also been quite a few studies confirming a significant reduction found in meats that have been marinated, especially in vinegar or acidic fruit juice or garlic or turmeric or a combination of these. In regards to animal fats, we now know that sugar and high fructose corn syrup is more likely the contributing factor for numerous health issues and that fat is not the boogey man it's been made out to be. And the generalizations about the consumption of meat found in certain circles are not founded by the studies found on Pubmed, JAMA and the New England journal of medicine, regardless of the appeal to motive fallacies.
@@SirBlackReeds and all those "cowspiracy lies" have been debunked. hey, i'd love it if eating animals was healthy and did not harm them or the environment, but that's not the real world
+judas brute Except it is the real world. You simply choose not to accept it. The fact is that Cowspiracy is inaccurate and even What the Health is inaccurate. time.com/4897133/vegan-netflix-what-the-health/ www.nationalobserver.com/2016/02/08/news/dicaprio-backed-cowspiracy-directors-find-new-conspiracy-milk www.acsh.org/news/2017/08/18/netflix-last-place-youll-find-pro-science-documentary-11697 www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/25/16018658/what-the-health-documentary-review-vegan-diet All of these are credible sources.
Food, Inc. is a better film than a documentary. It goes as far as to mislead and lie to the viewer, and it helped ignite the stupid crusade against GMO products. Not to mention they put Joel Salatin on a pedestal. He's a terrible rep because he lets his chickens, cows, and pigs all roam around together, and apparently he feeds his pigs cow manure. While perhaps not pushy, Pollan and Schlosser do come off as condescending at times. The fact that they were introduced as the authors of certain books also compromises any pretense of objectivity they had. Food, Inc. does tell you what to eat at the end and labeling it as "propaganda" may not be so inaccurate. What are the actual facts though? The film blends fact with fiction. Disconnect from nature - here's the thing, the cities can't transition to rural life. That's just impossible. Not to mention that no one's going to want to wait for "tomato season" or what have you. That would have some serious economic downsides. Boneless and bloodless meat isn't a bad thing at all. Scale of production - you need background information on statistics, otherwise they're worthless. Abuse of workers - this a perfect example of when fact is blended with fiction. They make it look like a seed cleaner was being prosecuted for no reason but as it turns out, he was involved in the illegal cleaning of patented seed and, after years of efforts to manage the problem in other ways, Monsanto was forced to take legal action. He is able to continue to clean conventional soybeans, wheat, and other non-patented seed crops. Monsanto, in a gesture of good faith, agreed to forego the financial judgment against Mr. Parr as long as he honors the terms of the court order. What the documentary doesn't point out is that it's not just about whether the food is healthy but also about how much you consume. You can still become obese on healthy food if you overeat it. Not to mention that there are persons out there who are pushing 100 years and they live on diets that would make Pollan and Schlosser shit themselves in disbelief. Speaking of which, the fact that they chose one Hispanic family to represent the poor comes off as racist, even if only vaguely. Government failure - I'm not saying none of it happened, but they really lack background information on these events, particularly why the outbreaks happened. I'm not expert, but I'm sure more reliable sources will have a different answer than them. Food, Inc. makes it look like we've never had members of corporations in the US government back that tradition goes far back, actually. Even FDR had a CEO as Secretary of State. Monsanto believes all government employees, including former Monsanto personnel, must ultimately serve the best interests of U.S. taxpayers. Individuals throughout the private sector, not just from Monsanto, routinely serve in government roles. A handful of former Monsanto employees have moved on to work for the U.S. government, and they did have a former employee, Michael Taylor, who went on to serve as deputy commissioner of the FDA. Cathleen Enright, who served on President Obama’s Agricultural Policy Committee in 2008 and 2012, wrote a good post about this topic. gmoanswers.com/ask/why-ex-monsanto-executive-michael-taylor-head-fda-can-you-say-conflict-interest We can all make a difference - there are a number of problems here. One of the problems is that it briefly turns into a Stonyfield Farm, Inc. ad. They paint Walmart as a good entity because they purchasing organic products from an organic supplier, teasing us with the idea of an all-organic Walmart. The thing is, an organic Walmart would still be subject to the same practices that made Walmart infamous. Then of course, if Pollan and Schlosser had their way, all of the food suppliers, if not the whole US, would be producing food the Joel Salatin way. His way isn't as sustainable as he (and P&S) want us to believe. He claims his portable hen houses are superior, however, he's dealing with a smaller scale than Perdue, Tyson, etc. They become impractical at the level needed for all of those corporations. By the end, Food, Inc. helps continue to make terms like "big business" and "corporation" derogatory. In short, Food, Inc. is too much "take our word for it." Pollan and Schlosser want us to believe they have all the answers but they don't. Not to mention objectivity is once again compromised when one person asks (paraphrasing, possibly) "But do they get to keep their soul." Also, look up "food inc lies."
I love the idea of DocWatch and this was a great and interesting start! I've been talking about the disconnect from nature for years which ultimately made me stop eating meat and was one of the reasons I went to uni for nutrition/food science. I think Food, Inc. brings up a lot of great points but it also important to remember that food policy in the US and the EU (and other parts of the world!) are very different - from how policies are made and food safety laws to nutritional guidelines and labelling and everything in between. I'm not saying that what is highlighted in Food, Inc. does not apply to the EU, it's just to a lesser or different extent and we have a lot of issues to tackle in the EU too! Anyways, great video!
I found this interesting and I like the idea for the series! I've watched a lot of food documentaries, as a vegetarian (going on vegan) myself and it's good to see people actively changing their lifestyle. Being veggie/vegan is the best!
Except it's not. Besides having to supplement what you'd normally get from meat, vegan isn't easy on the stomach. More important, Food, Inc. goes as to outright lie to the viewer(s).
@@SirBlackReeds wrong. most peoples diets are omnivorous, but we're physically designed as herbivores. Milton Mills MD has some presentations here on youtube explaining how. consuming animal products and by-products sickens people, whole foods plant based eating prevents or reverses diseases in humans
+judas brute Sounds like the same kind of pseudoscience that the anti-GMO crowd pushes. Milton Mills isn't reliable source. After all, he claims that only plants made proteins which is false. Animals make proteins as well. This pro-science source is far better: www.healthline.com/nutrition/is-red-meat-bad-for-you-or-good
Thank you Myles for your info on Food Inc. I just saw HOPE 2018 amazing video. I am going to see Food Inc this week. Keep doing what you're doing. My life has changed drastically in the last 24hours. To see it is to feel it. Scott Allen
Some doc recs: Best of Enemies, Searching for Sugarman, Fed Up (if you liked Food Inc, this one will resonate with you), The Internet's Own Boy, Citizenfour, The Fog of War, Paradise Lost series, Anvil, Jesus Camp and generally whatever Michael Moore or Erroll Morris put out ... these are just the first ones that come to mind.
Really cool idea for content. Haven't watched food, inc. but fortunately was made aware of the problems it touches on by my girlfriend a few years back and adapted my food buying and eating habits accordingly, which has advanced me greatly as an individual. I think this video might give other people a nudge in the morally right direction as well. Great job!
The filmmakers weren't even in the morally right direction. Them painting Monsanto as one of the most evil of corporations is highly inaccurate. This film helped ignite the stupid crusade against GMO products.
Yes, cowspiracy! The food system is already changing. Let's keep voting with our purchases! I actually wrote some emails to Aldis asking them to think about removing small amounts of milk from processed products that don't need them and after my reply to their response they offered me a £5 voucher! It's worth it to complain verbally as well as with your money. Big corporations do care about profit, but they are also interested in data about their customers, as that's the gateway to profit - so let's give it to them. There is a definite trend.
I found this video, thought about how informed the speaker was, how eager I was to show it to my English class, and then realised it was Myles! haha i am so excited about this - i used to watch you F O R E V E R ago, and am so happy to see how well informed, interesting, and happy you seem. Thank you for continuing to produce videos :)
What a great idea! Doc watch, I can't wait for more videos in this series as I'm always looking for new documentaries to watch. I watched Food Inc a few years ago and was also blown away by the enormity of the whole industry. I'd like to recommend Forks over Knives, Fat sick & nearly dead, Vegucated, Speciesism: the movie, Life according to Ohad and of course Cowspiracy: The sustainability secret.
GREAT film and a must watch for EVERYONE!!! I love that it is NOT some preachy vegan film. In fact, the documentary opens with a scene of the director eating a burger and talking about how that is still one of his favorite things to eat. It's a story that simply explores where our food really comes from in America and the answers are somewhat disturbing and even repulsive.
2:46 but Myles.. you just implied earlier that we should wonder where all the bones and blood has gone when we see meat in supermarkets to remind ourselves that this was from a living animal. And then you visited a supermarket in another country where they sold the whole chicken.. with bones, head and all. And you are disgusted?? D
In terms of slaughterhouse workers, they are prone to PTSD and other mental health problems. We can all make a difference, yes :) But I think we need to recognise that half measures encourage quarter measures. I'd recommend earthlings of course!
THis movie made me make better food choices. I shop at farmers markets for my food and eat one meal a day. Check out my channel. When you can talk to your local farmer and see how much better the animals/produce is raised you’ll notice the taste difference and the difference in your health.
Thanks for the info Myles! And yes I did the movie. I am going to watch it again. To remind me to stay focus on my eating and protest against the political system and horrible corporations. Who cares nothing about people lives.
please buy your meat from your local grass fed and grass finished farmer as food matter we need to wake up to the factory farmer and what they are doing to us
Try finding and supporting local regenerative farm and livestock methods and non gmo foods. U can have meat but find a local non gmo pasture raised operation Joel salitan is the awesome farmer in good inc watch him. It’ll change how u eat
I'm interested in watching this documentary, my only concern is that it is already 8 years out of date. I'm sure a lot of the points mentioned in it still stand, but was wondering whether there were any other similar food documentaries anyone could recommend which were created more recently and show any of the developments we've made since then? Particularly that focuses on the UK rather than the US? :)
Hungry For Change (2012) is excellent. so is Got The Facts On Milk but it's also 2008, though still relevant. re: UK watch BBC specials The Men Who Made Us Fat and The Men Who Made Us Spend. PBS Frontline episode The Trouble With Chicken was first shown May 2015 and is worth seeing. i haven't seen Eating Animals yet, but it came out this year, and on youtube search for things like Vegan (insert year). H.O.P.E. What You Eat Matters came out this year and Live and Let Live is five years old
So, tell me something i don't know from watching the documentary myself. Men with rings on their index fingers... ugh! Is that a starter kit for a set of brass knuckles?
fuck yeah! doc watch! this is already gona be my favourite thing on youtube, let the good times rool! seeeeriously hope you get on some adam curtis this series!! spread the good word D: also check out: a new story for humanity - its on (vimeo)
I watched this documentary and it really did put things into perspective about the food industry. And to add to this video, humans overall are horrible to animals in general. Have you heard of the dog meat festival in China? Horrific. I respect animals more than I do humans. We are cruel people.
Fun fact: those dogs are born and bred to be meat. At the end of the day, there is literally no humane way to make meat. Furthermore, Food, Inc. is inaccurate. Don't praise it.
That movie is incredible. Saw it years ago. Life changing!
Great food for thought (pun intended). I'm going through a tough time financially, so I'm frequently relying on cheap food to keep going, which I can feel affecting my health. I'm more tired, prone to headaches and losing concentration easily. I'm trying to eat better but the whole situation is leaving me a bit depressed and demotivated to change, and so it's hard. But definitely going to check this doc out and hopefully start going in the right direction! Thanks, Myles!
Wow!!! Thank you for giving me tools to convince my dad that my sister and I are not crazy, we can make a difference. I loved your phrase “ there’s nothing more invasivethan putting things into your body”. He also helped me deciding if I should go vegan vegetarian or not. Muchas gracias! 🙏🏿
I watched this documentary last year and I thought it was brilliant at exposing just how corrupt the American political system is. I was already aware of a lot of the stuff to do with how they produce meat on a massive scale but to see just how little the government can do to regulate it and shut things down if they have salmonella or e. coli etc present at these factories shocked me. Since I watched this documentary I now don't believe the American government has much control over any laws and regulations. The whole country is run by big business and they can do whatever they want. Capitalism has gone too far in the USA. Would love to hear what you think of our (UK) government when it comes to food regulation. Is it as bad as the US? I personally don't thinks so but I could be massively misinformed
I guess that may depend on how deep your previous conservative governments had cut their ministries and departments involved. Here in Canada our previous government have pretty much caused some industries to self-regulate, cutting inspectors left and right to save a few dollars. :-/
@canucktunes As far as I'm currently aware some areas of UK food production are getting better. My understanding is that we no longer farm chickens in the same horrible battery farming conditions after a public outcry, and our cows live in fields and are fed on grass and natural feed after the BSE scare of the late 90's. GMOs are banned under EU law (though I personally don't have a problem with GMOs). I could be wrong about all this
You're so right! Once you know the horror of producing meat it is impossible to find bacon or any other type of meat 'delicious'. I would add that once you realise that the dairy industry is even worse than the meat industry it's no hardship giving up dairy.
I’ve always been under the impression France is a heavy-meat eating country and sells a lot of meat.
I don’t think Americans would buy a lot of it if they weren’t accustomed to it but by the time the youngest generation (alpha) sees it, gets used to it and grows up they’d probably revert back to selling tons of meat
Doc Watch = Brilliant Idea - will definitely be looking for this film. It's pretty much what I've been thinking for a long time, but one thing that is hard for low income families is choosing to eat selectively - supermarkets have forced alternatives out of business or to "remote" areas for a lot of people, e.g. farmers' markets, so the inflated prices for fruit and veg, "healthier" packaged meats (usually labelled "Finest" or similar) isn't an option, and they are therefore in a vicious circle.
What would help is if all schools offered only well balanced and healthy meals, educating children as well as feeding them. My mother started this at her school over 20 years ago and it made a huge difference to the choices children made when choosing what to eat out of school, as well as influencing their families to eat somewhat healthier at home.
Going back to the issue of pricing, I live near Ealing Road in Wembley, and we have a number of good butchers there (Halal, which is not packaged, tastes better and is cheaper) as well as great fruit and veg shops typically charging less than 50% of the prices in local supermarkets - how can that be?
I'm old enough (just!) to remember when you went to the high street to shop for everything - the side effect of this? Community - people socialised in the shops, got to know and trust the shopkeepers, and were excising at the same time without knowing it - all in all a much healthier situation physically and mentally, as well as for the ecosystem supplying the goods.
It's OK to run out of something in the shops - it's natural - we'll find out how natural when the growth boosting drugs, pesticides and fertilisers that we're continually pumping into the ecosystem reach tipping point (we're nearly there as bees are in danger of extinction) and we'll run out of natural resources to meet the demand on a basic level, never mind the overly indulgent level that we're at now.
The first film I ever watched that put me on a path to a better diet was “The Beautiful Truth”. I didn’t see it mentioned in this thread but I may have missed it, so if I’m repeating it forgive me. It’s far from the best documentary I’ve seen on the subject but it is quite eye-opening.
Hungry For Change is a must. Got The Facts On Milk (aka The Milk Documentary) is eye opening. Fat Sick and Nearly Dead is good. Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story is excellent re: how much good food is wasted in the world. i also loved the BBC specials The Men Who Made Us Fat and The Men Who Made Us Spend. PBS Frontline episode The Trouble With Chicken is like a mini Food Inc, but focusing mainly on poultry industry. Planeat i liked, and i loved Mad Cowboy (Howard Lyman story). i love hearing from people who have lived both sides of the issue, then make a decision
Great idea Myles.I wish more people would question their relationship to environment.Glad to hear you are health conscious in so many ways.I saw "Earthlings" two years ago.Drove to the venue.Coming home I pulled over the side of the road and sobbed something crazy.I have eaten almost "zilch" meat since.Really happy you have such a wonderful attitude to life.There are many blind mass consumers of everything today.Blaming everything but.Starts with each individuals self nurturing.Kudos.
heard about this video about two months ago, just watched it and your review is amazing. i loved how they gave us informative choices about changing the food industry at the end.
Can you provide me the link of this documentary please
I watched Food, Inc. several years ago! I love that documentary! Probably one of my favorites! I love the straight forward message of the old way of farming was the best way to do it!
Why? It goes as far as to outright lie to make its point.
Food Inc. is an interesting documentary and we've made discoveries and advancements since then that I thought i'd mention.
Manure management. According to the EPA the states has successfully reduced their methane output by capturing and using methane to generate power, resulting in agriculture now only being responsible for 8% of the methane emissions in the states.
There have also been some advancements in carbon monoxide emissions but they're still working on Nitrous Oxide emissions, most of which comes from fertilizers.
In regards to meat consumption, it has been scientifically established that the moderate consumption of red and processed meat is healthy. But unfortunately these is an overconsumption of red and processed meat in American society. And the methods used to cook some foods result in the release of heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, two mutagenic agents that can harm a person's DNA and may result in cancer.
Studies have found that the release of these agents can be reduced by simply reducing the cooking temperature and/or changing the cooking method. There have also been quite a few studies confirming a significant reduction found in meats that have been marinated, especially in vinegar or acidic fruit juice or garlic or turmeric or a combination of these.
In regards to animal fats, we now know that sugar and high fructose corn syrup is more likely the contributing factor for numerous health issues and that fat is not the boogey man it's been made out to be. And the generalizations about the consumption of meat found in certain circles are not founded by the studies found on Pubmed, JAMA and the New England journal of medicine, regardless of the appeal to motive fallacies.
Food Matters, Forks over knives. Cowspiracy is good too! I'll watch food inc now, thank you Myles :)
Food, Inc. is quite inaccurate. How is Cowspiracy any better?
both docs are quite accurate, so is Hungry For Change
+judas brute Go look up "cowspiracy lies" on Google. There's a bunch of inaccuracies in all of them.
@@SirBlackReeds and all those "cowspiracy lies" have been debunked. hey, i'd love it if eating animals was healthy and did not harm them or the environment, but that's not the real world
+judas brute Except it is the real world. You simply choose not to accept it. The fact is that Cowspiracy is inaccurate and even What the Health is inaccurate.
time.com/4897133/vegan-netflix-what-the-health/
www.nationalobserver.com/2016/02/08/news/dicaprio-backed-cowspiracy-directors-find-new-conspiracy-milk
www.acsh.org/news/2017/08/18/netflix-last-place-youll-find-pro-science-documentary-11697
www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/25/16018658/what-the-health-documentary-review-vegan-diet
All of these are credible sources.
howzabout showing us your list of 100 favourite documentaries....
I need to look for it and dig it back out. May be even bring this show back at some point :)
Food, Inc. is a better film than a documentary. It goes as far as to mislead and lie to the viewer, and it helped ignite the stupid crusade against GMO products. Not to mention they put Joel Salatin on a pedestal. He's a terrible rep because he lets his chickens, cows, and pigs all roam around together, and apparently he feeds his pigs cow manure.
While perhaps not pushy, Pollan and Schlosser do come off as condescending at times. The fact that they were introduced as the authors of certain books also compromises any pretense of objectivity they had. Food, Inc. does tell you what to eat at the end and labeling it as "propaganda" may not be so inaccurate. What are the actual facts though? The film blends fact with fiction.
Disconnect from nature - here's the thing, the cities can't transition to rural life. That's just impossible. Not to mention that no one's going to want to wait for "tomato season" or what have you. That would have some serious economic downsides. Boneless and bloodless meat isn't a bad thing at all.
Scale of production - you need background information on statistics, otherwise they're worthless.
Abuse of workers - this a perfect example of when fact is blended with fiction. They make it look like a seed cleaner was being prosecuted for no reason but as it turns out, he was involved in the illegal cleaning of patented seed and, after years of efforts to manage the problem in other ways, Monsanto was forced to take legal action. He is able to continue to clean conventional soybeans, wheat, and other non-patented seed crops. Monsanto, in a gesture of good faith, agreed to forego the financial judgment against Mr. Parr as long as he honors the terms of the court order.
What the documentary doesn't point out is that it's not just about whether the food is healthy but also about how much you consume. You can still become obese on healthy food if you overeat it. Not to mention that there are persons out there who are pushing 100 years and they live on diets that would make Pollan and Schlosser shit themselves in disbelief. Speaking of which, the fact that they chose one Hispanic family to represent the poor comes off as racist, even if only vaguely.
Government failure - I'm not saying none of it happened, but they really lack background information on these events, particularly why the outbreaks happened. I'm not expert, but I'm sure more reliable sources will have a different answer than them. Food, Inc. makes it look like we've never had members of corporations in the US government back that tradition goes far back, actually. Even FDR had a CEO as Secretary of State. Monsanto believes all government employees, including former Monsanto personnel, must ultimately serve the best interests of U.S. taxpayers. Individuals throughout the private sector, not just from Monsanto, routinely serve in government roles. A handful of former Monsanto employees have moved on to work for the U.S. government, and they did have a former employee, Michael Taylor, who went on to serve as deputy commissioner of the FDA. Cathleen Enright, who served on President Obama’s Agricultural Policy Committee in 2008 and 2012, wrote a good post about this topic. gmoanswers.com/ask/why-ex-monsanto-executive-michael-taylor-head-fda-can-you-say-conflict-interest
We can all make a difference - there are a number of problems here. One of the problems is that it briefly turns into a Stonyfield Farm, Inc. ad. They paint Walmart as a good entity because they purchasing organic products from an organic supplier, teasing us with the idea of an all-organic Walmart. The thing is, an organic Walmart would still be subject to the same practices that made Walmart infamous. Then of course, if Pollan and Schlosser had their way, all of the food suppliers, if not the whole US, would be producing food the Joel Salatin way. His way isn't as sustainable as he (and P&S) want us to believe. He claims his portable hen houses are superior, however, he's dealing with a smaller scale than Perdue, Tyson, etc. They become impractical at the level needed for all of those corporations. By the end, Food, Inc. helps continue to make terms like "big business" and "corporation" derogatory.
In short, Food, Inc. is too much "take our word for it." Pollan and Schlosser want us to believe they have all the answers but they don't. Not to mention objectivity is once again compromised when one person asks (paraphrasing, possibly) "But do they get to keep their soul." Also, look up "food inc lies."
I love the idea of DocWatch and this was a great and interesting start! I've been talking about the disconnect from nature for years which ultimately made me stop eating meat and was one of the reasons I went to uni for nutrition/food science.
I think Food, Inc. brings up a lot of great points but it also important to remember that food policy in the US and the EU (and other parts of the world!) are very different - from how policies are made and food safety laws to nutritional guidelines and labelling and everything in between. I'm not saying that what is highlighted in Food, Inc. does not apply to the EU, it's just to a lesser or different extent and we have a lot of issues to tackle in the EU too! Anyways, great video!
I found this interesting and I like the idea for the series! I've watched a lot of food documentaries, as a vegetarian (going on vegan) myself and it's good to see people actively changing their lifestyle. Being veggie/vegan is the best!
Except it's not. Besides having to supplement what you'd normally get from meat, vegan isn't easy on the stomach. More important, Food, Inc. goes as to outright lie to the viewer(s).
@@SirBlackReeds wrong. whole foods plant based eating is ideal for humans. eating animals poisons us
+judas brute It doesn't. Humans to this day are still omnivores. We are designed for plant and animal consumption.
@@SirBlackReeds wrong. most peoples diets are omnivorous, but we're physically designed as herbivores. Milton Mills MD has some presentations here on youtube explaining how. consuming animal products and by-products sickens people, whole foods plant based eating prevents or reverses diseases in humans
+judas brute Sounds like the same kind of pseudoscience that the anti-GMO crowd pushes. Milton Mills isn't reliable source. After all, he claims that only plants made proteins which is false. Animals make proteins as well. This pro-science source is far better: www.healthline.com/nutrition/is-red-meat-bad-for-you-or-good
Thank you Myles for your info on Food Inc. I just saw HOPE 2018 amazing video. I am going to see Food Inc this week. Keep doing what you're doing. My life has changed drastically in the last 24hours. To see it is to feel it. Scott Allen
This movie made me go vegetarian again (I had been for the first 6 years of my life) in 2010, and now vegan.
That's not good. The movie is quite inaccurate.
yay for you!!! & same. [:
So you eat corn but not Polyface beef? Good work!
that's not good either..
Great summary! Just subscribed
Thank you very much. May be I should bring DocWatch back :)
Some doc recs: Best of Enemies, Searching for Sugarman, Fed Up (if you liked Food Inc, this one will resonate with you), The Internet's Own Boy, Citizenfour, The Fog of War, Paradise Lost series, Anvil, Jesus Camp and generally whatever Michael Moore or Erroll Morris put out ... these are just the first ones that come to mind.
Really cool idea for content. Haven't watched food, inc. but fortunately was made aware of the problems it touches on by my girlfriend a few years back and adapted my food buying and eating habits accordingly, which has advanced me greatly as an individual. I think this video might give other people a nudge in the morally right direction as well. Great job!
The filmmakers weren't even in the morally right direction. Them painting Monsanto as one of the most evil of corporations is highly inaccurate. This film helped ignite the stupid crusade against GMO products.
Yes, cowspiracy! The food system is already changing. Let's keep voting with our purchases!
I actually wrote some emails to Aldis asking them to think about removing small amounts of milk from processed products that don't need them and after my reply to their response they offered me a £5 voucher!
It's worth it to complain verbally as well as with your money. Big corporations do care about profit, but they are also interested in data about their customers, as that's the gateway to profit - so let's give it to them.
There is a definite trend.
Love this series idea! Great stuff Myles!
I found this video, thought about how informed the speaker was, how eager I was to show it to my English class, and then realised it was Myles! haha i am so excited about this - i used to watch you F O R E V E R ago, and am so happy to see how well informed, interesting, and happy you seem. Thank you for continuing to produce videos :)
What a great idea! Doc watch, I can't wait for more videos in this series as I'm always looking for new documentaries to watch. I watched Food Inc a few years ago and was also blown away by the enormity of the whole industry. I'd like to recommend Forks over Knives, Fat sick & nearly dead, Vegucated, Speciesism: the movie, Life according to Ohad and of course Cowspiracy: The sustainability secret.
You might want to do some research. Food, Inc. is pretty inaccurate.
Thank you for recommending documentaries! love this!
Truly brilliant channel, Myles!
Food Inc. changed my life.
GREAT film and a must watch for EVERYONE!!! I love that it is NOT some preachy vegan film. In fact, the documentary opens with a scene of the director eating a burger and talking about how that is still one of his favorite things to eat. It's a story that simply explores where our food really comes from in America and the answers are somewhat disturbing and even repulsive.
Oh I'm SO exited for this series. Really interesting
2:46 but Myles.. you just implied earlier that we should wonder where all the bones and blood has gone when we see meat in supermarkets to remind ourselves that this was from a living animal. And then you visited a supermarket in another country where they sold the whole chicken.. with bones, head and all. And you are disgusted?? D
In terms of slaughterhouse workers, they are prone to PTSD and other mental health problems.
We can all make a difference, yes :) But I think we need to recognise that half measures encourage quarter measures.
I'd recommend earthlings of course!
THis movie made me make better food choices. I shop at farmers markets for my food and eat one meal a day. Check out my channel. When you can talk to your local farmer and see how much better the animals/produce is raised you’ll notice the taste difference and the difference in your health.
Thanks for the info Myles! And yes I did the movie. I am going to watch it again. To remind me to stay focus on my eating and protest against the political system and horrible corporations. Who cares nothing about people lives.
please buy your meat from your local grass fed and grass finished farmer as food matter we need to wake up to the factory farmer and what they are doing to us
Thank you for this video ! I advise you a documentary called "What a Wealth" if you don't really know it yet ;)
Most people are eating a slab of pork ribs and rubbing their abdominals as they watch this !
Watch The White Helmets
a good related documentary is Earthlings
Try finding and supporting local regenerative farm and livestock methods and non gmo foods. U can have meat but find a local non gmo pasture raised operation
Joel salitan is the awesome farmer in good inc watch him. It’ll change how u eat
Regenerative IS GMO farming! Same principles. No-till and winter cover crops.
Nvm
It’s not a good chemical
This is one of my fav documentaries!
Why? The film goes as far as to outright lie to make its point.
I'm interested in watching this documentary, my only concern is that it is already 8 years out of date. I'm sure a lot of the points mentioned in it still stand, but was wondering whether there were any other similar food documentaries anyone could recommend which were created more recently and show any of the developments we've made since then? Particularly that focuses on the UK rather than the US? :)
To be fair, the film was inaccurate even during 2008.
Hungry For Change (2012) is excellent. so is Got The Facts On Milk but it's also 2008, though still relevant. re: UK watch BBC specials The Men Who Made Us Fat and The Men Who Made Us Spend. PBS Frontline episode The Trouble With Chicken was first shown May 2015 and is worth seeing. i haven't seen Eating Animals yet, but it came out this year, and on youtube search for things like Vegan (insert year). H.O.P.E. What You Eat Matters came out this year and Live and Let Live is five years old
So, tell me something i don't know from watching the documentary myself. Men with rings on their index fingers... ugh! Is that a starter kit for a set of brass knuckles?
Brilliant video! Deffo watch cowspiracy and forks over knifes
fuck yeah! doc watch! this is already gona be my favourite thing on youtube, let the good times rool!
seeeeriously hope you get on some adam curtis this series!! spread the good word D:
also check out: a new story for humanity - its on (vimeo)
Bitter Lake - only watched half but will return to this!!! :D
YES YES! Adam Curtis! Seconded. My pick is The Century of the Self!
That's on my list too :)
I watched this documentary and it really did put things into perspective about the food industry. And to add to this video, humans overall are horrible to animals in general. Have you heard of the dog meat festival in China? Horrific. I respect animals more than I do humans. We are cruel people.
Fun fact: those dogs are born and bred to be meat. At the end of the day, there is literally no humane way to make meat. Furthermore, Food, Inc. is inaccurate. Don't praise it.
Food Inc is movie people watch when they want their shitty gmo opinions validated
Lol. Forget it then.