Food Stamped - the movie

Check out Food Stamped Saw this tonight -- ran the sound system for our local library at the event. It is a good look at commercial food in the US and what people who apply for food stamps can expect when trying to live on them. The film has the husband and wife living on the exact dollar amount for one week which is a bit mis-representational as food stamp customers at my grocery store frequently buy with both their own cash and with the SNAP debit cards -- the SNAP program serving its function as a help-up and not a direct replacement for the cost of food buying. That being said, it is still well worth watching as it highlights the reason why nutritious food is much more expensive than cheap crap. (Hint -- Federal subsidies for crop production.) It also gives some great starting points for doing grass-roots work at the community level. This is where our food system needs to be reformed, not at the Federal level. The Federales do not Constitutionally have that authority.