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416. Responsibility

By Joel Jacobsen

Food, Inc. is a documentary about the concentration of market power in the United States responsible for the sameness and mediocrity of our chain restaurants, radio stations ("chain radio stations" is very nearly redundant), newspapers, beer, and food suppliers. Food, Inc. is better known as agitprop about food, but I think the "inc." part of the title has still-broader significance.  Among other things, the film describes the gigantic increase in food poisoning in America since the 1960s, an increase that has happened gradually enough that outbreaks and "meat recalls" no longer strike us as unusual. When I was a kid, way back in the last century, I loved the (non-alcoholic) eggnog my mother made, with the shake of cinnamon on the froth...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on January 17, 2010 (boomark / email).