Food Inc.

I saw Film Inc. at the Melbourne International Film Festival yesterday. I am not sure what I was expecting but I was really, really looking forward to seeing it. I probably should have known that I would be crying through most of it & unable to watch the hideous ways that animals are treated on factory farms.

I think this is a really brave documentary, they talk about the many laws that have been introduced to stop people criticising the enormous food corporations and there is plenty of criticism of them. When I first went vegan I educated myself on the impact that my food choices had. It wasn't easy to learn about what happens to your food before it gets to you but I thought it was important to know the facts. Food Inc. showed these facts quite graphically and also told me things I don't know. It never suggests that the answer is a vegan diet - in fact the word vegan is never even used or even a vegetarian diet, but it does ask that you have an awareness of where your food comes from and that you read labels and that you eat organically - all of which are really positive moves for the average consumer.

Food Inc. is well worth seeing, for how hard it was to watch it was a well made and informative doco. The only shame is the people that should watch it and have an awareness of what buying the cheapest food possible means, probably won't.