OMNIVORES DILEMMA VS. FOOD INC.

both the book and the movie begin with the idea of a national eating disorder. Omnivores dilemma proceeds to evoke more deep and personal emotions, and tells you your about to learn a hell of a lot about food production in america and you might not like it. as the book and the movie continue they both talk a lot about one commodity in particular that dominates food production in america; corn.
here the book also succeeds in evoking something deeper than the movie, by not only going back but begging us to look forward with thesis that are simply undeniable. the movie touches on these things but i think the sheer greater amount of information about the food industry that made the book so much better in this area. this wasn't true for everything such as slaughter houses and animal treatment where images got across a very strong point. but i do think the book was stronger in enforcing its ideas.
i had watched the movie last year, before reading the book, and it didn't really resinate with me as much. after i had gained all the information the book had offered me, i could not only not stop telling everyone that everything was corn, i could properly understand all the arguments that i had heard in the movie when i was more naive about them. the arguments that had plagued me, but i hadn't even known the half of it.
seeing the movie with out all of that knowledge left me confused and angry and a little bit wiser about the food industry, yes. but not very different. reading the Omnivores dilemma has changed my life. i now know if not fully, a whole lot more about the food industry than before. and i am inspired to change, if only to help my self. and i an inspired to get other people to want to change as well. the movie did none of that for me. it introduced things that got me wondering, but the book just told me flat out about every last detail. thats why i prefer the book. i feel like watching the movie is the lazy persons cop out, and their not getting all that knowledge that that might really appreciate more and might be able to help them more.