I watched Food Inc. yesterday, which outlines how all the "foodchains" are connected. It starts from corn, then goes to beef, pigs, hens, and then to fast food. From there you get the dumbing down of the people, obesity, E.Coli, diabetes, allergies, antiobiotic resistencies and a whole host of other issues. You also get the pathological view of animals as "vessels for protein". The movie describes the relationships quite well, and also describes the underlying corporate and political situation, whereby most high officials related to food come from the food industry. A lot of pathological corporations are described, and not surprisingly Monsanto is still the king of the hill in that department. Their ingenuity in harassing and controlling farmers is just mindboggling.
My impression afterwards was that the single biggest change that *should* be made (but won't), and which would change sooo many other things including how food is created and processed, and how other countries outside the US are affected as well, and also the immense health issues, would be to remove the subsidy of corn. That seems to be the big key to all this pathological business, from a governmental point of view (not including pathology etc.). If the subsidy of corn could be removed the playing field would be much more level. Which is why it won't happen, of course. But it was interesting to see have central of an issue it is.
