Would you like steak with that corn?

I recently saw a documentary called, 'Food, Inc' and I'll probably never look at food the same again. This movie isn't what you think it is, it what you know it is and what we all should be educating ourselves for the sake of our health.


This movie is about how we eat, what we eat, where it comes from, how we treat our animals, ourselves and the environment. It talks about the struggle of farmers, a bio-tech company called Monsanto that owns patent to the soybean or as some would like to call it GMOs (genetically modified foods), a mother's grieving her 2 yr old son dying from e coli infection and how over 46,000 items in a single grocery store are actually owned by 5 companies.


This documentary has educated me and built awareness which I am now dedicating to research and reporting. I will post all of my findings on this blog. My first project is finding out what makes a five star high end steakhouse a good steakhouse? When we think of Gibson's, Morton's Chicago Chop House, etc we probably think of a big juicy steak that's rich in all sorts of flavors, but what if we found out where it came from how cattle are actually fed would it make any difference? What if you found out that cattle traditionally are grass-fed animals (herbivores) and were never really meant to eat anything else. What if you found out that about 80% of cattle are corn-fed and we make them eat it because corn makes them as fat as possible as fast as possible. What would you say if I told you that?

"when cattle are corn-fed, their intestinal tracts become far more acidic, which favors the growth of pathogenic E. coli bacteria, which in turn kills people who eat undercooked hamburger."

(source; http://www.foodrevolution.org/grassfedbeef.htm).

If this isn't reason enough to think about what we eat, where we eat and finding out where are food really comes from then I don't know what will.