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Ingredients
Jun. 30th, 2012 11:40 pmBob and I just watched this great film called "Ingredients." Turns out it's a Portland produced film about the growing movement towards locally grown food. It features a lot of local Portland farmers and communities and restaurants. Such as Carafe which is nearby my old workplace and where I've eaten frequently.
Here's the trailer for the film.
One of the lines that really stood out for me was when the film stated that the US spends less on food than any other industrialized nation.
Another line was the statement that it is estimated that 1 in 3 kids born in 2000 will develop type 2 diabetes.
Then there was the image of a skull and cross bones poison sign staked in a field of growing vegetables because of the pesticides being used on the crops. Really?
On the flip side was all the wonderful footage of local farms in the Portland area (and in NY and Ohio) and interviews with farmers who are going organic, doing CSAs, selling directly to local restaurants, and working with the community and the local school system.
Since I changed the way I eat about a year ago, I am continually amazed at how many different foods and ways to prepare those foods and such wonderfully tasting food there is out there. It makes me both very happy and very pissed off at what has happened to the food system in this country.
If you have Netflix, this film is available for streaming. I loved this. Watching this film made me love the Portland/Willamette Valley area even more than I already did.
Edit: Here is the entire film on YouTube:
And from one review: "I will also say this . . .the images in this film are stunningly beautiful. If you love food, like I love food, you will be blown away by the cinematography in this movie."
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Here's the trailer for the film.
One of the lines that really stood out for me was when the film stated that the US spends less on food than any other industrialized nation.
Another line was the statement that it is estimated that 1 in 3 kids born in 2000 will develop type 2 diabetes.
Then there was the image of a skull and cross bones poison sign staked in a field of growing vegetables because of the pesticides being used on the crops. Really?
On the flip side was all the wonderful footage of local farms in the Portland area (and in NY and Ohio) and interviews with farmers who are going organic, doing CSAs, selling directly to local restaurants, and working with the community and the local school system.
Since I changed the way I eat about a year ago, I am continually amazed at how many different foods and ways to prepare those foods and such wonderfully tasting food there is out there. It makes me both very happy and very pissed off at what has happened to the food system in this country.
If you have Netflix, this film is available for streaming. I loved this. Watching this film made me love the Portland/Willamette Valley area even more than I already did.
Edit: Here is the entire film on YouTube:
And from one review: "I will also say this . . .the images in this film are stunningly beautiful. If you love food, like I love food, you will be blown away by the cinematography in this movie."
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