The documentary is based on assumptions that size and efficiency are inherently evil. During the 60 minutes of this program not once did the producer try to present the other side of the story. Instead, it never lost a chance to show "so and so company declined our request for an interview" leading us to believe that they must have something to hide so, there it is, they are evil! Well perhaps Mr Kenner the reason they declined was they knew the program will be one-sided and self-serving but we will never know since they did not want to talk to you.
Offers lots of criticism for the food industry yet lacks any practical suggestions or solutions to mass production of food (which does not personally excite me either).
Most of the suggestions are so out of touch with reality, such as having the farmer who prefers slaughtering his few chickens outdoors suggest that we should drive to his farm to buy our food! Wow! Can someone tell this guy that Americans and the rest of the civilized world prefer living in big cities, far away from any farms and that not many generations ago it was every farmer's dream to get out of farm life and move to a big city? Or are we to reverse progress so Mr i-raise-a-few-chickens-the-right-way farmer can feel good about himself? Oh I know, we should relocate all city dwellers to the countryside and save the planet. Afterall, it was done before, in 1976, in Cambodia...
The fact that this documentary had one purpose and one purpose only - to prove the author's firm beliefs (and increase the sales of his books/DVDs) without any real research is obvious throughout the program. One obvious case is the Hispanic family spending $12 to buy meal for four from Burger King and presenting it as if they did not have another choice. I'm no food scientist but I can easily feed all four of them with less than $12 and with food that is not only healthier but is also more culturally familiar to a Hispanic family - namely beans!(my favorite meal). A bag of beans costs $1-3 and easily feeds four people. Oh but of course it's not as convenient as a drive-thru meal! Well, people make the wrong decisions and some big corporations are taking advantage of it. Lets not just blame the corporations if people are in love with junk food.
We are what we eat, we as a nation prefer cheap and fast junk food so cheap junk food is produced and served to us! Unless we assume responsibility for our actions we will be taken advantaged of and suffer as a result.
Following this programs idea that size and industrialization is inherently evil is like saying Ford was evil because he perfected mass production of automobiles. Of course the planet would've been better off without Mr Ford's ideas, so lets all go back to driving horse-drawn carriages!
Mr Kenner ideas are simply ridiculous and typical of a pseudo-intellectual zealot's ideas that are neither sound nor practical and they serve one purpose only - to make the author feel good and smart.
I bet most of the advocates on this documentary drive large SUVs and have the refrigerators well stacked with cheap meat.
This show made a couple of good suggestions at the very end though, 1) teach kids at school about eating healthy and that less is more! 2) Cleanup school cafeterias from junk food. (We have PA meetings all over the country and we can easily change that)
Lets not just take the easy way out and blame our weakness on some corporations because they committed the 'crime' of figuring out how to be more efficient in what they do.
I have a few tips that I try to follow myself. 1) Do not east junk-food, never, just forget that it exists. 2) EAT LESS! 3) EAT A LOT LESS! 4) Stop eating so much meat. I personally eat meat maybe once a week and thats more than enough. 5) Avoid canned foods of any sort. Always! 6) Avoid processed food as much as possible. 6) Do not drink soft drinks, ever! 7) Eat a lot more vegetables! They are not that expensive and if you add the long term health benefits, they are cheaper than junk food. 8) Exercise (just a bit everyday is enough)
And ask you representatives to promote rules/laws that teach kids from a very young age about eating right! If we succeed in raising a generation of kids that tare health conscious, perhaps the big feedlots will disappear as they operate on economies of scale. If people stop eating meat 3 times a day then they will be no animals suffering, till then, blame it all on the meat-loving population - US!
Mr Kenner's unconvincing and unscientific zealotry cause more harm than good.
Offers lots of criticism for the food industry yet lacks any practical suggestions or solutions to mass production of food (which does not personally excite me either).
Most of the suggestions are so out of touch with reality, such as having the farmer who prefers slaughtering his few chickens outdoors suggest that we should drive to his farm to buy our food! Wow! Can someone tell this guy that Americans and the rest of the civilized world prefer living in big cities, far away from any farms and that not many generations ago it was every farmer's dream to get out of farm life and move to a big city? Or are we to reverse progress so Mr i-raise-a-few-chickens-the-right-way farmer can feel good about himself? Oh I know, we should relocate all city dwellers to the countryside and save the planet. Afterall, it was done before, in 1976, in Cambodia...
The fact that this documentary had one purpose and one purpose only - to prove the author's firm beliefs (and increase the sales of his books/DVDs) without any real research is obvious throughout the program. One obvious case is the Hispanic family spending $12 to buy meal for four from Burger King and presenting it as if they did not have another choice. I'm no food scientist but I can easily feed all four of them with less than $12 and with food that is not only healthier but is also more culturally familiar to a Hispanic family - namely beans!(my favorite meal). A bag of beans costs $1-3 and easily feeds four people. Oh but of course it's not as convenient as a drive-thru meal! Well, people make the wrong decisions and some big corporations are taking advantage of it. Lets not just blame the corporations if people are in love with junk food.
We are what we eat, we as a nation prefer cheap and fast junk food so cheap junk food is produced and served to us! Unless we assume responsibility for our actions we will be taken advantaged of and suffer as a result.
Following this programs idea that size and industrialization is inherently evil is like saying Ford was evil because he perfected mass production of automobiles. Of course the planet would've been better off without Mr Ford's ideas, so lets all go back to driving horse-drawn carriages!
Mr Kenner ideas are simply ridiculous and typical of a pseudo-intellectual zealot's ideas that are neither sound nor practical and they serve one purpose only - to make the author feel good and smart.
I bet most of the advocates on this documentary drive large SUVs and have the refrigerators well stacked with cheap meat.
This show made a couple of good suggestions at the very end though, 1) teach kids at school about eating healthy and that less is more! 2) Cleanup school cafeterias from junk food. (We have PA meetings all over the country and we can easily change that)
Lets not just take the easy way out and blame our weakness on some corporations because they committed the 'crime' of figuring out how to be more efficient in what they do.
I have a few tips that I try to follow myself. 1) Do not east junk-food, never, just forget that it exists. 2) EAT LESS! 3) EAT A LOT LESS! 4) Stop eating so much meat. I personally eat meat maybe once a week and thats more than enough. 5) Avoid canned foods of any sort. Always! 6) Avoid processed food as much as possible. 6) Do not drink soft drinks, ever! 7) Eat a lot more vegetables! They are not that expensive and if you add the long term health benefits, they are cheaper than junk food. 8) Exercise (just a bit everyday is enough)
And ask you representatives to promote rules/laws that teach kids from a very young age about eating right! If we succeed in raising a generation of kids that tare health conscious, perhaps the big feedlots will disappear as they operate on economies of scale. If people stop eating meat 3 times a day then they will be no animals suffering, till then, blame it all on the meat-loving population - US!
Mr Kenner's unconvincing and unscientific zealotry cause more harm than good.