I sat down in the Nuart Theatre with my Mom because I like to be informed.  Especially about food and food production.  With a corporate soda in hand and legs folded under me in a comfortable sukhasana, I was eager to learn but not ready for what I was about to see.  This country was built on the backs of farmers.  I was choked up on several occasions while I listened to farmer after farmer talk about how they couldn't survive anymore due to legislature that forces them to farm in ways that will completely offset the delicate balance of our ecosystem.  

I'm a midwesterner so the shots of rolling farmland really appealed to me.  So beautiful.  That's God's country, I tell you.  Except it's not like I remember as a child.  Genetically modified crops, over-crowded livestock farms, and private investigators from Monsanto now rule the land.  How is this possible?  How is this legal?  In a culture where 1 in 3 people born after the year 2000 will have adult-onset diabetes, we must change.  We simply must.  

Please see Food, Inc.  Then get back to me with your thoughts so that we may discuss it.

Thank you for reading.

Tamara ZumMallen

p.s.  In complete disgust at how corporations dictate what happens to our farmers and their farms, I did not finish my soda.  Knowledge is power.  Don't ever forget it.