Documentaries thread

That's the Food, inc one. Crazy some of the stuff in it.

 

I was stunned at the washing meat in ammonia, it's a solution to a problem that doesn't really need to exist.


*Cows are fed corn instead of grass as it's cheaper
*Cows can't process corn properly, which leads to the production of an acid resistant E.Coli strain forming in their gut
*The stock houses are over crowded and the cows stand in a foot of their own shit, which contains the E.coli
*thousands of cows get slaughtered every day in the big houses, so they don't get cleaned properly, meaning minute traces of excrement, containing the potentially deadly E.coli, can be found in the meat
*So to kill that e coli strain, they rinse/soak the meat in Ammonia then process it into slabs of mince/processed meat.


If they just fed the cows grass instead of the corn feed, the E coli wouldn't be in there shit in the first place as it wouldn't exist.

 

Wouldn't surprise me, it wasn't up to that stage in this 'food, inc', but they did look at the chickens and how they're genetically modified to have larger breasts as people prefer the whiter meat to the dark meat.

The chickens also grow faster, so they're at full size in (iirc) 4 weeks instead of the natural 7-8 (or something very similar). Their bones still grow at the normal rate though, so a lot of them can't walk properly.



It all sounds bad but in reality they're only altering the product to give the consumer what they want. If everyone wants to buy chicken breast and whinge about how expensive shit is, then they're gonna make bigger chicken breasts as cheaply as possible.

 

The Ambassador
Best Worst Movie

Two of the best documentary films I've seen. Both superb.

 

Might have to give them a whirl, what are they about?

 

The Ambassador - the Danish documentary maker buys himself a spot as Liberia's Ambassador to the Central African Republic and makes a documentary about how you can smuggle diamonds out of the CAR. A number of his contacts get murdered and Liberia put out an international warrant for his arrest.

Best Worst Movie - a documentary about the cast of Troll 2 - a film considered possibly the worst of all time. What has happened to the cast since the film was made? I haven't seen it in about 4 or 5 years, but I do remember it being bloody funny.

 

Ambassador sounds incredible

 

I saw that on the shelf at the video shop last night and went for 'Senna' instead. Will give it a whirl next time round.