Food, Inc...Just watched it.

We have just watched "Food, Inc" with our local Permaculture group. 

While the images of animal abuse under the title of intensive farming was distressing, there was something more distressing in this movie.
Politics.  Surely, in America, a country where the constitution includes an amendment guaranteeing Freedom of Speech, it shouldn't be possible to pass a law preventing people from saying bad things about food EVEN IF IT IS THE TRUTH.
There was a lady (Barbara ?) whose son had died from eating E.Coli infected meat.  The meat was subject to a product recall, including up to 19,000,000 pounds of meat (8550000 kilograms).  This lady WHOSE SON DIED was to afraid to say "I reduced my condumption of meat," or, "Losing my son has made me wary of buying burgers." It is the TRUTH and may stop someone else from losing their beloved child to Commercial Negligence Poisoning. 
If the way food is being produced is outright DANGEROUS, there is much more to be gained for EVERYBODY by changing the production methods, than there is to be gained by changing the law to stop people talking about the production methods.
Please, get to know the provenance of your food.  Did your beef spend half its life knee deep in its own excrement?  Was your chicken grown so quickly its leg bones couldn't support its own weight?  Does the slaughterhouse put all the live animals it receives through its production line regardless of the health of the animal (right up to the point of bringing cows in on a forklift because it is to SICK to walk to the killing room)?
And THEN!  Ontop of all that, have they identiufied that there are health problems associated with these production methods, and rather than change the way they do it, add an extra step where ammonia or chlorine bleach is used to get rid of pathogens that wouldn't otherwuise be present at such dangerous levels?

Next time, I hope to be more gentle in my blog.  I may tell you all about the wonders of my spring garden.