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Post by mickanddeb09 on Nov 11, 2012 18:45:23 GMT 1
Anyone else happen to see the Doco - Hrana, d.d (Food inc) on T.V last night?
Scarey, scarey, scarey stuff. And Croatia is on the Bullet Train there, only a few more stops.
The seed saving arguement is already in place. Dukat is already barking orders. Families that have borrowed and mortgaged the family property that has been theirs for generations to aquire the machinery to keep up, for little return. Corn-fed cattle. The list goes on.
Once in the EU...........Goodnight Irene.
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Post by gobrea on Nov 11, 2012 19:00:11 GMT 1
Once in the EU...........Goodnight Irene. More like Gravy Train Time for the politicos and assorted friends.... Together, they have strip mined everything Croatia had to offer through their monopoly company leeching practices and now that the cupboard is bare, well why not fleece Europe for all its worth. Its not as if THEY are going to pay any of it back anyway...... Remember only little people pay tax. |
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Post by Madgolfer on Nov 12, 2012 8:23:47 GMT 1
Food Inc is a very scary film indeed. Who would want to eat processed food ever again after watching that?
In Vrbovec we have the "PIC" meat processing plant, you have to ask yourself if its the same as in the USA?
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Post by gmh on Nov 12, 2012 11:55:29 GMT 1
I think Croatia is still a long way off from being like the USA in regards to food processing.
People here are far more connected to the land through relatives and friends, giving them better access to home grown vegetables and game meats, fresh fish etc.
Also, just the size of Croatia doesn't make it necessary to take the steps Americans and Australians do in processing and preserving there food. The time it takes to kill and butcher a cow and get it on a supermarket shelf is much quicker here simply because it's a small country.
The scariest part of that documentary for me was how beef for McDonalds is washed in Ammonia and turned into some kind of pellets that don't even resemble meat and then later turned into burgers that millions of people eat. Luckily I've never been a McDonalds eater but the temptation for my kids is ever present.
I think I read last year that McDonalds in Croatia gets all it's beef from Hungary. I wonder if that's because Hungary has an ammonia meat processing plant and Croatia doesn't ?
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