Fast Food Nation

[TexasImprovMassacre]

Have any of you seen Earthlings? Here is a link if you want to...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhxKnys7Ryw

This is for part 1. There are 3 parts. You might be able to dig around for the whole thing, uninterrupted, if you feel the need. WARNING: THIS IS VERY GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING. IT IS VERY HARD TO WATCH!!!

I watched this a couple months ago. It is hard to watch. I liked idiocracy. I also like money.

[apiaryist]

Has anyone read the book? I have. I didn't see the movie version.

The book inspired some serious life changes for me that I've stuck with for the past 4 years.

Book? Do you mean the short story The Marching Morons?

The book. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. I recommend it to everyone, but some of my friends have gotten mad at me after reading it. It contains too much truth and removes the shield of ignorance from your daily meals.

Check it out.

[improvstitute]

I eat meat because the meat would eat me. Eating meat is how we evolved, and vice versa. In moderation, it is good for you.

Letting images of the killing floor dissuade you from eating meat seems strange to me. Yes, it's unpleasant. The animal/meat is treated and processed like a product, because we consume it and buy it as a product. Even if the animals were killed "humanely", they'd still have to be skinned. The organs would still have to be removed. And if you were shown video of it, you would find it repulsive.

Fast food, however, is disgusting, and I want to read Fast Food Nation just so I'll think twice before I order chicken strips or a burger.

It is not so much the skinning and organ removal etc that bothers me. It is the conditions under which the animils live and ultimately die. For example, cows live an average of 13 years (I may be off by a year or two and I am getting this from the movie). Milking cows that dairy companies use to extract milk for mass distribution live on average of 4 years. They often spend those 4 years chained to a stall and are hooked up to a pump for the majority of the time. They are also injected with who knows what (steroids, hormones) to increase their milk production. To me, that seems to be a horribible existence. This is just one of the examples.

Again, this is a very new and VERY different way of thinking to me. I am still not sure where I stand on all of this. It is just have a new consciousness about it all and I am in the process of sorting it all out.

Anyhow, I'd be curious to hear more. This seems like I discussion I want/need to have.

Also - I was dissappointed by Idiocracy. The concept was great, but it just never lived up to it's potential IMHO. Some parts were good/funny, but I thought the majority of it missed it's mark.

[Justin D.]

Has anyone read the book? I have. I didn't see the movie version.

The book inspired some serious life changes for me that I've stuck with for the past 4 years.

Book? Do you mean the short story The Marching Morons?

The book. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. I recommend it to everyone, but some of my friends have gotten mad at me after reading it. It contains too much truth and removes the shield of ignorance from your daily meals.

Check it out.

Sorry, thought you were talking about a book for Idiocracy. Yeah, the book's good. It reads a bit too much like a boring textbook at times, but I much prefer it over the movie. I understand what they were trying to do by fictionalizing the events, but they didn't pull it off well enough for me.