Food Inc.

Last night I saw a movie called Food Inc.

If you are trying to loose weight, but have a problem eating, see this movie. There's nothing like seeing where food comes from to make you not want to eat it ever again. I mean, I know that beef is from cows and that chicken is a chicken. But the picture I get in my head of a cow is very different from seeing thousands of cows cakes in their own poop being strung up and led to the kill floor.

Anyway, the movie was very informing. It focused mainly on the business side of the food industry, and how the decisions made are bad and evil and wrong, and cause joblessness, indentured servitude, illegal immigration, e-coli outbreaks, death, mutilations, etc. But it also brought up a few issues such as antibiotics and the pollution caused in the transport of food.

Also, can I just express my surprise at how many items are made with corn? I should have known - High Fructose Corn Syrup. Duh. So Syrup. Bread. Cereal. But batteries?

Northern Exposure

I read this interesting Article on a place in Alaska. I think it's worth a glance.