I saw the new documentary Food, Inc. in Reno today. I highly recommend it. If you read Michael Pollen's book "The Omnivore's Dilemma" (excellent!) you will already know some of what the film is about. I particularly enjoyed seeing the sustainable independent farmer in this film that Pollen spent much time on in the book. This farmer grows and produces and uses every product and by-product on his farm. Cows roam the fields, the manure they produce fertilizes the fields. Ditto with his chickens and pigs. No animals are confined in dark airless buildings. Best to read Pollen's book and see the movie. Never will I ever eat a mass produced big agra chicken again.

The movie goes beyond the book many ways, particularly with the time it spends on Monsanto's pursuit of farmers who accidentally have their soybean crops contaminated by adjacent farmers who use Monsanto's Round-Up ready soy bean seeds and of seed cleaners who clean seeds for farmers who save seeds from one year to use the next year.

This film will convince you that the farm subsidy program is travesty that contributes to global warming, obesity and pollution (if you weren't already). It will also convince you to make sure that any soy products you use are not GMO (from Monsanto) and to avoid anything containing corn or corn by-product (unless it is actually corn ). And it has convinced me to support local farmers, use locally produced farm products, to avoid as much as possible anything from big agra, and to go as organic as I possibly can. At least for those of us in California, these won't be too hard to do.

See it. It may change your life. It should at least change the way you eat.

cheers,
Lin