Comments on: Katie Couric Speaks with Eric Schlosser and Dr. David Kessler About Food Safety, GMOs and More (VIDEO)

By: Marisa Avalos

Marisa Avalos — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:32:56 +0000

This website is pure gold!! If only the media would emphasize MORE of these points about food policy, GMOs and everything thats involved with it, like the fact that big business doesnt give a crap about Joe Blow and what his family eats so long as they can take his money for their substandard, questionable, additive loaded “food”. But then again, why would the media want to emphasize this point,when they themselves have a tie to conglomerate america, they are all intertwined ecomonically together. A more paternalistic stance has to be taken, but oh no, wait, civil liberties will be threatened!! Meanwhile the obese, heart diseased population continues to grow and drain our resources. Make healthy foods economically viable!!!! for goodness sake it can be done!

By: Ecovore Central » Blog Archive » Brain Bank 2/15/2010 — 2/28/2010

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:04:35 +0000

[...] Katie Couric speaks with Eric Schlosser and Dr. David Kessler about food safety, GMOs, and more [...]

By: Ecovore Central » Blog Archive » Katie Couric/ CBS news: antibiotics and factory farming

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:27:27 +0000

[...] See Couric’s follow-up discussion with Eric Schlosser and Dr. David Kessler, responding to ‘pushback’ from the [factory farming by whatever name you like] industry, here. [...]

By: Evz

Evz — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:19:27 +0000

Thanks- nice summary of this interview. I find the ‘pushback’ from industrial animal ag organizations very interesting… they’ve worked so hard to keep people from seeing ‘behind the scenes’ of how animals are raised for meat/ eggs/ dairy, in this country… & now that the (multitudinous) problems with it are coming to light [thanks in large part to Food Inc, Eating Animals, Fast Food Nation, & similar, along with news coverage like Couric’s original segments on antibiotic resistance), they’re all up in arms about people knowing what’s actually going on, with U.S. food production… I find it fascinating that among interested parties (informed consumers/ small-scale organic farmers/ microbiologists/ etc.), it’s *only* folks with a financial stake in the current status quo DON’T see huge problems with the way we’re doing things! Hmmm, what a coincidence!

Current industrial animal ag practices cause tremendous health, environmental, and ethics problems; mismanaged profit-motive-at-all-cost biotechnology (Monsanto, this means you!) is breaking stuff in ways we don’t fully understand/ can’t fix, with *zero* accountability… an educated consumer base is the only antidote!

For further reading, check out:

http://www.ecovore.org/blog/?page_id=71
http://www.ecovore.org/blog/?p=647

When it comes to our food supply, ignorance is NOT bliss!