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Food, Inc
So I watched Food, Inc last night and have decided to change my life. I know it will be hard to find grass fed, free range meat but they didn't call it a convienent truth. I recommend this movie.
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I haven't seen the movie yet, but we are very picky about where our meat comes from too.
This website http://www.organicconsumers.org/ can help you find local farms; top left you can choose your state and go from there. Good luck!
It shouldn't be that hard to find grass-fed meat if you know where to look. Start with Google and search "local food North Carolina" or "grass-fed beef North Carolina" and see what comes up.
eatwild.com is one of the first results when I searched the latter.
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I just noticed that its in our Comcast on Demand. I have been wanting to see it since it came out, but DH has agreed to watch it with me. I'm hoping to do so this weekend. I'm glad to hear how powerful people are finding it. I've been working on convincing DH we need to start budgeting for better, organic, humanely killed meat and I'm hoping this movie gets him on board with that idea.
New releases, I think. I can't remember.
I really liked this movie too. There wasn't very much new information in it for DH and I, as we've been doing local organic food for awhile now and went vegetarian in July. But very moving, and well done. Not preachy or judgemental, just factual and interesting. Which I hope will mean lots of people who normally wouldn't see will. I highly recommend it.
Before we went veg, we got all our local, organic, free-range, grass-fed meat from our Farmer's Market. Localharvest.org will have listing of farmer's markets in your area. I think that's a much better avenue than trying to find it at the grocery store, because you can ask the farmer how they treat their animals, how they're raised, and how they're slaughtered. Lots of them have pictures of their farm and whatnot too. Lots of grocery store labels have no real meaning, like "free range" means the chicken must have access to the outdoors, not that the chicken actually uses it. The door isn't opened until they're ~5 weeks old, and they're harvested at 7 weeks, so by the time the door is opened they're so set in their ways that they don't even know it's there. And they're still crammed together for their short little lives.
I still haven't seen this yet! But I've made a lot of big changes to my eating habits, and it hasn't been bad. I used to eat similar as I do know when I was growing up, but then I got married...
I've really stopped eating much meat, and when I do, I generally use it in smaller quantities, ie like in a stirfry etc. I eat a lot of PNW farmed shrimp because its sustainable and wild salmon also because its pretty well-priced here, and seafood goes farther to me than other meats.
If you liked Food, Inc. you will like Fresh, the movie. Similar story, but more positive. More details also (about how to live the greener lifestyle).
I work for a cooperative food store and we are showing this film to our staff. Getting rave reviews!