After watching the documentary “Food, Inc.,” you may find yourself like first lady Michelle Obama, planting your own backyard garden.
The film on America’s corporate food industry, which is currently out in theatres, was specially showing Thursday evening at the Capitol Visitors Center. Given the audiences grossed-out reaction to some scenes, the film clearly sent a message to those on the Hill of needed policy changes.
Did you know:
- Thanks to antibiotics and pesticides, farmers and grow a chicken in 49 days instead of the natural time of three months?
- While being raised, cows stand ankle deep in manure where E. coli evolves, which can wind up in the packaged meat?
- A lot of our food is actually rearrangements of corn including ketchup, peanut butter, and Twinkies?
- You can buy a hamburger for less than a dollar but you cannot find a head of lettuce for less than that?
We can bet no one felt like dinner after the evening show commenced.
