Dolphin Steak Anyone?

It's rare there are three documentary films that I have seen that are all nominated for an Oscar, my personal favorite was Burma VJ, but Food Inc and the winner The Cove were equally as compelling and all three have important stories to tell that we all need to hear.

I've posted all of these trailers on here before, but here they are again. The makers of The Cove are using their win last night to help heighten the pressure on the Japanese government to stop the horrific practices of killing dolphins for mercury tainted meat or to sell them to marine amusement parks. Check out their site for more details on how you can help.






And the winner is:

Revolution Is In The Air

I actually just saw this on Alice Water's Facebook page:

Food Inc. has been nominated for an Oscar and is the highest selling dvd in America! Revolution is in the air...

Good news indeed.



And don't forget to check out Hungry For Change.

Nicholas Kristof weighs in on Food, Inc.

Sorry to sound like a broken record, but if you haven't seen it you really should, Food, Inc. will change the way you thinking about eating for the rest of your life.

The other day I was on the subway reading Michael Pollan's Botany of Desire, for my bookmark I am using a promotional postcard from Food, Inc., when I got up to exit the train it dropped to the floor, I picked it up and as I was exiting a young woman who had seen what I had dropped said to me:

"Oh did you see that? I saw it at the Film Forum last night, it's really good, but now I feel like there is nothing I can eat!"

A funny choice of words because it's almost exactly what Neil has been saying since we saw it.

It's hard having to be so aware all the time about what you eat and where it comes from. My hope is that some of the cheap and cheerful restaurants that we like to go to will get the message and start including simple things at first like organic eggs, dairy and maybe chicken or a grass fed burger. There are a handful in the East Village who already do, I keep meaning to write to my favorite restaurants and encourage them to make the switch.

I guess if I want to go out and for there to be something to eat I shouldn't wait any longer!

In the mean time here's Kristof at the New York Times.

A discussion of GMOs

Just the other day my friend Jane sent me a newsletter from Whole Foods that had a questionnaire in it about how people feel about GMOs (genetically modified organisms).

Now today I see Tom Philpott from Grist has done an article on GMOs that basically says Monsanto et al., control all the information, so anyone who wants to get their seeds to do independent work, can't, or if they can they are afraid to speak out because they are afraid of losing their funding.

Right there that says everything I need to know, when there is no freedom of information or when the information is so closely gaurded then you have to wonder what the GMO makers have to hide?

Again, go see Food, Inc. it talks about Monsanto's business practices and those alone should turn any decent person off of wanting to support a corporation who has so willfully destroyed the lives of so many farmers.