Food and Meat Production

I showed two films to my health students this semester: Food Inc, and Fast Food Nation-- well not the entire film FFN because it is R-rated but I showed them enough that they can see that in fact animals have to die in order for us to have a McMeal, and also that the food supply is not safe.                                                                                                                                                     Food Inc teaches us in a documentary format that feeding cattle corn (subsidized by the US government) is a way to produce e-coli in cattle, and that deadly bacteria makes it's way into the meat.                                                                                                                                                                                     Eating lower on the food chain is just that. Eating more veggies, grains, and fruits. It's cheaper, lower in fat, and far better for the planet since feeding a cow takes a tremendous amount of freshwater and land in which to grow that precious corn which they eat.