Food Inc

We watched the movie Food Inc recently and we highly recommend it. Here is a link to the trailer. If as a food consumer you’ve ever wondered about food production or modern agriculture, or if you’re a farmer and have heard agriculture representatives and pundits decry the food elitists’ view of modern US ag, then this movie will fill in the gaps for either side. To be fair, this movie has its flaws. Not all agriculture is strictly “industrial” agriculture. To a large extent beef, and to a much, much smaller extent pork can be found being raised on small farms and smaller feedlots or hog houses and even hoop facilities and in old barns and in pens. Also as a “whole foods” producer we at Mulberry Grove Family Farm do not believe that capitalism and business are the root of all evil, nor do we think that organic will save the world (conservation and environmentally sound and biodiverse ecosystems probably will, but more on that some other time). We really enjoyed the last couple of segments of the movie that featured Polyface Farms in Virginia (for obvious reasons we hope you do too). Finally, the recommendations that are given at the end of the film we do feel were unnecessary and do smack of elitism. We believe that the consumer needs to know more about their food and the businesses that provide that food/product, but once that information is given, we feel the consumer is smart enough to choose what’s right for them and to push their representatives in local, state, and national government to make any changes that they see as necessary. We appreciated that the movie provided information that is otherwise not easily accessible. So check out the movie, see for yourself, and make up your own mind. Then, please, let us know what you thought about it. We’d love to hear from you.