Living in the Information Age: You are What you are Fed

I recently watched the documentary "Forks over Knives".  I highly recommend it! It will likely change the way you eat, if not the way you think.  That eating fruits and veggies is good for us is not news.  However, the research and subsequent findings that underpin the central argument of this film—that eating an exclusively plant-based diet may not only help prevent illness but also reverse degenerative diseases like diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, arthritis, and cancer—reveal that even diets comprised of roughly 20% meat, dairy and processed foods may lead to debilitating diseases by the time one reaches middle age.

But the documentary invites us to reevaluate more than just our diets.  Nudging us, much in the way that Michael Moore's documentaries do, "Forks over Knives" compels us to consider the consequences of not questioning the status quo.  While pondering the social and political implications of such a documentary, I was once again reminded of the extent to which information is either withheld or promulgated in the interest of profit.  But who decides what information reaches the public? And how can we know definitively whether those who control the flow of information, beyond the ubiquitous motive of profit, are not themselves misinformed to some degree? 


"Forks over Knives" movie trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ijukNzlUg