The Documentary Movie "Food, Inc." To Be Shown On PBS This Week - PLEASE DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND WATCH IT!
We have highlighted the movie Food, Inc. a few times on here and encouraged people to see it. For anyone who believes our government has been hijacked by Wall Street, you'll appreciate this movie for the sameness of the dynamic in our food industry. The reality is Washington has been hijacked by anyone with enough money to buy favor. That most assuredly is the case within the purview of the Food and Drug Administration. An organization that has been decimated by this neoliberal economic ideology over the last thirty years.
Alan Greenspan has now famously remarked that his libertarian leanings led him to incorrectly believe that markets worked best when they were self-regulated. Greenspan has proven himself to be an ideological boob who should go down in history books as an asshat. How about using market-based gaming theory and mathematics to determine economic policy rather than political leanings? You don't run monetary policy or the economy based on political leanings. This free market stupidity shows a fundamental lack of understanding of markets and mathematics. Libertarianism is a political ideology not a branch of mathematics. A view that the economy should be run on libertarian ideals is like saying we should eat our automobiles when we are done with them. both statements are completely without reason.
If you watch Food, Inc., you will see this same neoliberal ideology we have come to love in financial markets. Food, Inc. discusses:
-Food regulations that have been gutted.
-Special favors within the food business are granted to those who wish to pay Washington
-Self-regulation of food businesses advocated by Greenspan at work in the food industry and the total number of inspections has been completely decimated.
-A once vibrant and competitive industry driven substantially by small business has now been completely gutted of competition and decent jobs because government has shown no regard to enforce anti-trust laws.
-Corporate-created industrialized food dominates American grocery shelves
-Industrialized food is produced in gargantuan quantities because it of massive tax subsidies provided to these producing corporations by American citizens courtesy of Washington payoffs to special interests
-Unregulated corporations destroying family farmers and small business entrepreneurs by depressing income and overproduction
-And because government incents these mega food corporations to overproduce all of this toxic industrial food, they need to find an outlet to get rid of all of it. So, not only do they shovel this shit onto our grocery shelves at below production cost, making it attractive to the economically underprivileged, but they also shovel this shit down our kid's throats in our public school food programs creating a health epidemic amongst Americans.
That's just a little of the pleasure you will witness. It's really a heart-warming movie. It's a movie every single American should see.
If our government or the mainstream media were seeking to education the sovereign people of this country, as they are constitutionally-mandated to do, so that our public servant could make decisions that are in the best interest of our nation, we wouldn't have this crisis. But, in fact, Washington is a den of thieves who generally cares not about anything other than their own drunken power and money-grabbing schemes. So, as I saw the other day on television on a Jamie Oliver special, we feed our kids breakfast pizza and pink milk with high fructose corn syrup laden cereal.
Link to the PBS Food, Inc. web site and show listing times here.
Alan Greenspan has now famously remarked that his libertarian leanings led him to incorrectly believe that markets worked best when they were self-regulated. Greenspan has proven himself to be an ideological boob who should go down in history books as an asshat. How about using market-based gaming theory and mathematics to determine economic policy rather than political leanings? You don't run monetary policy or the economy based on political leanings. This free market stupidity shows a fundamental lack of understanding of markets and mathematics. Libertarianism is a political ideology not a branch of mathematics. A view that the economy should be run on libertarian ideals is like saying we should eat our automobiles when we are done with them. both statements are completely without reason.
If you watch Food, Inc., you will see this same neoliberal ideology we have come to love in financial markets. Food, Inc. discusses:
-Food regulations that have been gutted.
-Special favors within the food business are granted to those who wish to pay Washington
-Self-regulation of food businesses advocated by Greenspan at work in the food industry and the total number of inspections has been completely decimated.
-A once vibrant and competitive industry driven substantially by small business has now been completely gutted of competition and decent jobs because government has shown no regard to enforce anti-trust laws.
-Corporate-created industrialized food dominates American grocery shelves
-Industrialized food is produced in gargantuan quantities because it of massive tax subsidies provided to these producing corporations by American citizens courtesy of Washington payoffs to special interests
-Unregulated corporations destroying family farmers and small business entrepreneurs by depressing income and overproduction
-And because government incents these mega food corporations to overproduce all of this toxic industrial food, they need to find an outlet to get rid of all of it. So, not only do they shovel this shit onto our grocery shelves at below production cost, making it attractive to the economically underprivileged, but they also shovel this shit down our kid's throats in our public school food programs creating a health epidemic amongst Americans.
That's just a little of the pleasure you will witness. It's really a heart-warming movie. It's a movie every single American should see.
If our government or the mainstream media were seeking to education the sovereign people of this country, as they are constitutionally-mandated to do, so that our public servant could make decisions that are in the best interest of our nation, we wouldn't have this crisis. But, in fact, Washington is a den of thieves who generally cares not about anything other than their own drunken power and money-grabbing schemes. So, as I saw the other day on television on a Jamie Oliver special, we feed our kids breakfast pizza and pink milk with high fructose corn syrup laden cereal.
Link to the PBS Food, Inc. web site and show listing times here.
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