WHAT ARE YOU EATING TODAY?

The question sounds ridiculously out of focus for most Americans. In India, what did you eat today is kinda starter to many a conversation.

Food though, is increasingly going out of focus for most people.

It's not what you eat, but where and how you eat that is the matter of discussions today. Sort of status symbol. You might be eating junk most of the times, but eating junk in say a five star hotel would be a status statement than say, a stall.

But junk we eat, most of the times. At least I find it here in the US. Sorry, I say, to the proponents of the American culture (if there's one), but what you guys eat at the fast-food joints at a cheaper price is not food. It's trash.

That brings me to the point: A new documentary that, I feel, is a must-watch for all those who care about food, farming and farmers. www.foodincmovie.com.

Check out the synopsis: http://www.foodincmovie.com/img/downloads/Press_Materials.pdf

Food, not oil, is transforming the nations and thus the world. The way we eat. What we eat. How we eat, and when we eat. We are going through the most fundamental and historic of structural changes in our food systems. A few corporate sharks that are amassing unprecedented profits are feeding us trash at the altar of the new century. In fact, they are killing us with the slow doses of poison through our own food.

So much for the profits! Long live capitalism!

The film thankfully brings back the focus on the fundamental issue of living: food.