Food, Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It

I bought the book because I didn't think that the movie was going to play around here but than I found out that it was and WOW!!! The book and the movie go hand in hand. Our lives have changed as a result for the better. We need to know where our food is coming from and when we find out we must make a choice as to whether we are going to continue to poison ourself and promote the horrible things done to the animals, food, farmers and factory workers (when we buy these things we are promoting them) or make the changes and only eat what we grow ourselves without pesticides and such, organic, and from farmers who are raising happy cows, chickens etc that are eating what they should and treated with respect. I look forward to feeling good when I am old due to making the changes necessary so than I will not have the cost of meds (not that I would use them) to treat the illnesses I get due to poor diet. We will never eat fast food again or buy meat from the grocery store now that we know what we are actually eating (feces, ammonia, hormones and antibiotics to name a few). Ignorance is not bliss. Americans are poisoned and you can see by looking around you at all the health problems. Go see the movie (documentary) and get the book because the books always have more in them. It actually cost less to eat healthy when you consider the cost later in life from eating badly, it cost your health and money because you have to now treat your health problems with expensive meds. Choose your health over your cravings please. God provided us with things that grow naturally. Fruits, veggies, nuts, grains etc and we don't need poisonous pesticides. Meat is good if it is humanely slaughtered and feed the right diet minus the hormones and antibiotics. Support the local farmers. Here is the link to see the trailer for the [...]

If you enjoyed and/or were meaningfully affected by the DVD and felt inspired enough to make a change in your own life and the eating habits of your family, this book is FOR YOU. If you are interested in taking your own eating choices to an even more deeply informed level, then this book is also for you. Not for the weak of stomach--makes it hard to eat in places where you don't know the origins of the food (meats especially). Restaurants don't hold the same appeal once you learn how the animals whose bodies supply their meats come to the table. You won't be able to read this book honestly and with an open mind without being changed by it. I think that's a good thing. There are many difficult things to read here, BUT there is also a lot of super helpful stuff. I like the fact that it's not just a list of everything that's wrong with the food in our world; there are several articles within this edited volume that offer things you can do TODAY to effect meaningful change in your own life. The only reason I don't offer it 5 stars is that the readers who really NEED to receive the messages contained with Food Inc, probably won't be any more willing to listen.

Just saw the film and ordered book. I don't understand why people think organic is so expensive. It's not the same product as the nonorganic version. Scientifically speaking,. it's a different substance. It has more nutrition in it. And why do people think healthy food takes all this time to prepare? You just eat a peach, not a candy bar. Smart choices don't cost more time - they just require a different mentality than buying into the corporate-controlled marketing mindset. And staying out of the supermarket. You want to talk about spending too much - the supermarket is The Worst Place to go. It's ALL about making you spend money. On soda, on chips. Please also read The End of Overeating by Kessler about hypersaturated foods supermarkets always try to sell you.And those people featured in the film - the Hispanics who eat at McDonald's? I don't understand why they aren't buying food from the taco truck, like in my neighborhood. Bean burritos are filled with nutrition. And they're cheap.Nonetheless point made. Why are we paying for corn subsidies that line the pockets of giant agribusiness and THEN we still have to pay AGAIN for diabetics, etc. ...not only do we have the world's most ridiculous healthcare "system", the agribusiness corporate interests have given us the world's most ridiculous food system. Read Exposed and you will see how Europeans haven't bought into this toxic melange in healthcare and in food. It's a wonder we Americans are even living. Wake up America! We've got to act soon. Before we spend ourselves to death treating all the problems the food industry has created and the health insurance industry is only too happy to surgically intervene in. Frankenworld!

The language of the book reminds one of the newspapers and I found it difficult to read because of such style. The font is quite small too. I've read a number of books on nutrition and they had that flow which gets you through the book easily - this one doesn't have it. Gave up after several pages and with have intention to go back o reading it.

I was thrilled with this book during the first 2 or 3 chapters. They were powerfully and accesibly written.Subsequent chapters disappointed, and were more a means for the airing of very specific and narrow concerns. They were too detailed and confined in their scope, and were more a critique of industry practices, rather than having a direct bearing on the food we eat.

An eye opener to an industry allowed to do what it wants to sell you whatever it takes to get you to give over your cash. A lobby with more power than you can imagine. And naturally politicians willing to do anything for "their" constituents. Good read if maybe a bit repetitious pertaining to the pervasiveness of the industry in pulling the wool over the average Dick and Jane.

I loved the movie, and having reading to augment the information was fantastic. Not every article was relevant to me, but I really enjoyed the vast majority of them. I would highly recommend the read if you are interested in food.

aware of most of the things written but good to see it in print