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Related: About this forumWhy Are Food Prices Out of Control? What Are We Really Eating? R Reich, M Pollan, Food Inc 2
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- Retail grocery consolidation, monopolistic; giant corporations have taken over what we eat; corn, ethanol; new documentary, 'Food Inc. 2.'
- Companies are using inflation to price-gouge Americans and making it worse, Robert Reich, The Guardian, April 11, 2024. Thanks to near-monopolies in many industries, corporations are seeing record profits as consumers struggle with high prices...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/11/companies-inflation-price-gouging
- 'Food Inc., 2' Official Trailer, new documentary.
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- (Wiki) Earl Lauer "Rusty" Butz (July 3, 1909 Feb. 2, 2008) was a US government official who served as the secretary of agriculture under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. His policies favored large-scale corporate farming and an end to New Deal programs..
His mantra to farmers was "get big or get out",
and he urged farmers to plant commodity crops such as corn "from fencerow to fencerow". These policy shifts coincided with the rise of major agribusiness corporations, and the declining financial stability of the small family farm...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Butz#:
- 'King Corn' or How Earl Butz Changed the Way Americans Eat,
.. What eventually emerges from this lighthearted buddy film, however, is a tragic lesson in how a few well-placed individualsin this case the former secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Earl Butz, working with a supportive president, Richard Nixon, and profit-hungry corporate interestscan alter the life and health of an entire nation in lasting ways. It was Butz, himself raised on a family farm, who flipped the federal system of farm supports on its ear with the specific intention of flooding the country with cheap food...
http://www.theslowcook.com/blog/2007/10/19/king-corn-or-how-earl-butz-changed-the-way-americans-eat/
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Why Are Food Prices Out of Control? What Are We Really Eating? R Reich, M Pollan, Food Inc 2 (Original Post)
appalachiablue
Apr 13
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Michael Pollan knows about food. I read anything he writes. Robert Reich always gets the big picture.
marble falls
Apr 13
#1
R., Reich: Companies Are Using Inflation to Price- Gouge Americans & Making It Worse, Ap. 11, 24
appalachiablue
Apr 13
#10
marble falls
(58,406 posts)1. Michael Pollan knows about food. I read anything he writes. Robert Reich always gets the big picture.
erronis
(15,711 posts)2. Both are smart and see the whole perspective.
Not as much into Pollan's articles/books on psychedelics, etc. but I do read them.
marble falls
(58,406 posts)3. The Omnivore's Dilemma was the eyeopener for me.
appalachiablue
(41,377 posts)6. Reich is the best; great work from Pollan. Adding *FAST FOOD NATION*..
- Trailer, 'Fast Food Nation' 2006. Based on the book 'Fast Food Nation, The Dark Side of the All- American Meal,' by Eric Schlosser (2001).
- Wiki. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal is a 2001 book by Eric Schlosser. First serialized by Rolling Stone in 1999, the book has drawn comparisons to Upton Sinclair's 1906 muckraking novel The Jungle. The book was adapted into a 2006 film of the same name, directed by Richard Linklater...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Food_Nation
appalachiablue
(41,377 posts)10. R., Reich: Companies Are Using Inflation to Price- Gouge Americans & Making It Worse, Ap. 11, 24
erronis
(15,711 posts)4. Squeezing the producers(farmers), price gouging, consolidation, lack of competition
Wonderful segment. I'd love to see a good outline of this discussion.
erronis
(15,711 posts)5. Links to "Food Inc. 2". Looks like a very good watch.
appalachiablue
(41,377 posts)7. These are good, thanks much.
gopiscrap
(23,814 posts)8. one word:
greed
appalachiablue
(41,377 posts)9. Check!
Dave Bowman
(2,013 posts)11. Can't wait to watch this.
The 1st one was great and pretty disturbing.