Food Inc documentary produced by Stonyfield Farm

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Did you know that Stonyfield Farm Organic is producing a documentary on the food industry in the U.S.? Michael Moore look out!

It’s fact, Food Inc will hit theatres this summer and it will expose some of the realities behind food production in the U.S..

The Stonyfield Farm Organic documentary has the perfect tag line:

“You’ll never look at dinner the same way!”

I saw the trailer and I can tell you it’s going to cause a lot of heated debate because a lot of food companies aren’t going to want the general public to know what goes on into making the foods they eat.

Here are some of the highlights of the trailer that gives hints to the tone of the upcoming Food Inc documentary:

* Did you know that the average supermarket in the U.S. has 47,000 products??? – I now understand why so many Americans are soooooooooooooooooo lost when it comes to making better food choices because there are just too many options!

* I love how the trailer touches unpon the point of the availability of tomatoes all year round which are picked green … that’s why I don’t eat what I call “winter white-tasteless tomatoes” and prefer opting for canned organic tomatoes and patiently wait for the tomato season! I try to only buy seasonal produce as much as I can.

* The trailer breaks the myth that food is no longer produced from farms and the trailer punctuates this by stating that “it’s not a farm … it’s a factory”.

* The documentary also highlights the “dangers” of some of the ways food is produced and the impact on American’s health! Gosh, there have been so many cases of food poisoning in the past few years that it does make you wonder what goes on behind the doors of those food factories.

I can already see the creators of this documentary sitting on Queen Oprah’s guest chair debating the sad state of the American food industry … and I’ll be watching!

I can assure you that if this movie does come out here in Canada, I’ll be the first in line to watch it.

The big danger (and maybe the real reason why so many Americans are so overweight) is that so many consumers chose to turn a blind eye when they chose their foods.

I see it all the time at the grocery store. People grab a food item, throw it at the bottom of their trolley and keep shopping. I always wonder if they know what’s in that food they picked. Do they read the label I ask myself??? Do they even want to know???

I hope that the average American takes the time to go see Food Inc to become more educated and start asking questions. The more people put their foot down and demand better quality foods, the more producers will be forced to oblige.

If you look at most countries in Europe, the food production industry is completely different because it’s still relatively approached as a farming business rather than a factory business. This shift in mentally is represented by the smaller waist line of most Europeans (the British don’t count because their obesity problems are almost as out of control as they are in the US).

You can watch the trailer for Food Inc here: