Food, Inc. Page #9
There have been protests
around the world.
The food crisis has already
brought down one government.
A month doesn't go by
where there isn't
a story in the news
that peels back
the curtain
on how that
industrial food is made.
Downer cows-- too ill or lame to walk--
being brutalized to get them
to their feet for slaughter.
Millions of gallons
of concentrated hog manure
flushing their contents downriver.
Government's food czar reported
that there are no tools
in place to track
the origin of the latest
salmonella outbreak.
Every time one of these
stories comes out,
America learns
a little bit more--
what's going on in the kitchen
where their food is being prepared.
And every time
they turn away in revulsion
and start looking
for alternatives.
The irony is that
the average consumer
does not feel
very powerful.
They think
they are the recipients
of whatever industry
has put out there
for them to consume.
Trust me,
it's the exact opposite.
When we run an item past
the supermarket scanner,
we're voting for local
or not, organic or not.
At Wal-Mart, we made
to go through a process of becoming
rBST-free in our milk supply.
We made that decision based
on customer preference.
Individual consumers
changed the biggest
company on earth
and in so doing,
probably put the last nail
in the coffin
for synthetic
growth hormone.
To eat well
than to eat badly.
It will take more money
and some people simply
don't have it.
And that's one
of the reasons
that we need changes
at the policy level,
so that the carrots are
a better deal than the chips.
People think
"These companies are so big
and so powerful, how are we ever going
to change things?"
But look at
the tobacco industry.
It had huge control
over public policy
and that control
was broken.
is a perfect model
of how an industry's
irresponsible behavior
can be changed.
Imagine what it would be if,
as a national policy,
we said we would be
only successful
if we had
fewer people going
to the hospital
next year than last year.
How about that
for success?
The idea then
would be to have
such nutritionally dense
unadulterated food
that people who ate it
actually felt better,
had more energy,
and weren't sick as much.
Now see,
that's a noble goal.
I can't change the fact
that Kevin's dead.
When you tell somebody
you've lost a child,
I really don't like
that look of pity
that comes
into their eyes,
that they feel
sorry for me.
I can have a pity party
all by myself very well,
thank you.
I don't need it from other people.
What I need
them to do is listen
and help me
effect a change.
You have to understand
that we farmers,
we're gonna deliver to the marketplace
what the marketplace demands.
If you want
to buy $2 milk,
you're gonna get a feedlot
in the backyard. It's that simple.
People have got
to start demanding
good, wholesome
food of us.
And we'll deliver.
I promise you.
We're very ingenious people.
We'll deliver.
That's all
I had to say.
When I rode that ribbon highway
I saw above me
The endless skyway
I saw below me
The golden valley
Well, this land was made
for you and me
I roamed and rambled
I followed my footsteps
Through
Her diamond deserts
And all around me
A voice was calling
It said "This land was
made for you and me"
This land is your land
This land is my land
From California
To the New York island
From the redwood forests
To the Gulf Stream waters
Well, this land was made
for you and me
Now the sun came shining
And I was strolling
And dust clouds rolling
And a voice was sounding
As the fog was lifting
It said "This land was
made for you and me"
This land is your land
This land is my land
From California
To the New York islands
From the redwood forest
To the Gulf Stream waters
Oh, this land was
made for you and me.
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