Food inc 2 documentary

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Food, it's a set of

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relationships. It connects you to the

farmer who grew it. It connects you to

the animals or the plants. It connects

you to the soil. It connects you to the

workers who prepared it. So there's a lot

at stake when you sit down to eat.

Over the last two decades, thanks to some

books and movies like the first Food, Inc.,

something called the food movement got

started. People became keenly interested

in where their food comes from, how is it

produced. Today, farmers markets are

everywhere, and even in the supermarket

you can buy organic food, grass-fed, GMO-

free. So we thought we could create a

food system aligned with our

values, but the food industry is

dominated by a small handful of very

large and very powerful

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companies. In normal times, the power of

the food industry, of the monopolies that

dominate it, is invisible to most of

us. But when the pandemic hit, the curtain

was peeled back,

and you began to see that this highly

efficient, consolidated food system is a

very brittle

system. There were whole crops being

buried, hogs being euthanized 'cause they

couldn't be processed, farmers disposing

a flood of

milk. At the same time, there were

shortages in the supermarket, and then

people were lining up for miles because