Comments on: Food Inc

By: quadruple boiled soups

quadruple boiled soups — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:13:06 +0000

It’s unlikely that Texas or any American state has such laws on its books given that it’s pretty clearly unconstitutional under the First Amendment.

By: James

James — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:52:32 +0000

The thing that amazes me is that Texas (if I remember correctly) has laws on the books against criticizing the ranching industry!

By: Michael Zehrer

Michael Zehrer — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:18:55 +0000

An artice about organic food from China: http://bit.ly/dykGFy

By: Fuchsia

Fuchsia — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:14:05 +0000

Thanks Michelle! I’ll certainly check out the article you mention (although I’m not sure I really WANT to know any more about this!)

By: Michelle Yu

Michelle Yu — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:32:24 +0000

Just bought your Land of Plenty book and it’s all kinds of wonderful.

I just came across this muckracking article documenting a large range of chemical additive issues having to do with food, a lot of which are truly shocking. The most relevant would seem to be the addition of clenbuterol (so-called “lean pork powder”) to pig feed to make them produce leaner meat. Clenbuterol causes food poisoning and has poisoned 300 people in Shanghai in a widely-publicized case.

The article is called WHAT KIND OF HEAVEN? A LOOK AT THE SAFETY OF CHINA’S FOOD, by Zhou Qing, and is available at: http://www.aktavara.org/upl/files/7813.pdf
It’s more about food safety and production, and not farming itself, but I thought you might find it illuminating.

Keep up the great work!

By: Susannah

Susannah — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:00:41 +0000

I don’t know anything about factory farming in China, but based on the documentary (which was excellent, btw), if this is what factory farming in the US looks like, then I think it’s just the tip of the iceberg for Chinese farming practices.

PS. Gong xi fa tsai! We linked to you in our slideshow this month.