Very different from the book. After all, why present empirical evidence when you can spin a good yarn instead?
(Not that I doubt any of the veracity. It's all sadly plausible, to the point that more people should be cognizant, but the people who claim that something like this "changed their lives" frighten me with their prior ignorance.)
Anyhow, none of this changes my outlook on food, but I'm more than willing to reconsider how I feel about open immigration. Even at that, some points you don't need a feature film to get across when two paragraphs will work just fine.
UPDATE 1: My only point of vehement fundamental disagreement was the rancher's anti-machine rant. After all, it was the conveyor belts who hired illegals, showed them a safety video in a language they don't speak, violated all kinds of health standards, and so on.
UPDATE 2: Bruce Willis! Nice. I hope he wasn't meant to be a straw-man, since everything he says is right-on. Well, not quite, but you get the idea: I actually deeply appreciate that they let a character make those particular points semi-convincingly instead of just being an over-the-top straw-man.
UPDATE 3: "Right now I can think of nothing more patriotic than to violate the Patriot Act."
Well, not that Eric Schlosser would necessarily object to the sentiment, but I don't think the Patriot Act was ever mentioned in the book (I looked in the index under both "P" and "U"), and I wasn't paying close enough attention to the argument at the enviro group meeting to really understand how they managed to work that in. This has devolved into Straw-Man All-Stars.
UPDATE 4: Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. "C'mon, don't you wanna be free?"
Amber (whom Julia correctly pegged as the former Chrissy from Growing Pains, on voice timbre alone) learns a life lesson about what you can('t) get cows to do.
Posted by Matt Bruce at March 18, 2007 10:56 PM