Watch the documentary about the American food industry called "Food Inc.". Its very insightful regarding various companies from food production, farming, delivery, etc.

Just watched the trailer - looks really interesting

Its on Netflix if you have it. Very informative and interesting.

Currently watching on novamov.com - only 20mins in and I'm already shocked

Is that the one where they talk about how many dead bugs/rodents and their feces is allowable in processed food?

Yep, it is a documentary based off a book by Eric Schlosser.  He also wrote Reefer Madness which talks about marijuana, porn industry and illegal immigration.  He is a pretty damn good author.  His book Fast Food Nation which Food Inc. is based off of made me not want to eat fast food for a very long time.  I still try to avoid it.

All it takes is for one serious virus to be released into the food supply and there could be a real crisis - it looks like it could quite easily happen :S

Issue is its not just fast food. Its our entire corporate hold on food production.

"1 in 3 Americans born after 2000 will contract early onset diabetes"
"Among minorities this rate will be 1 in 2"

What the heck? That's terrible :(

Yep, my favorite part of Food Inc was the farmer that was gutting chickens outside with his workers.  They tried to shut him down but then he had them test his chicken compared to the "normal" manufactured chicken and it contained way less harmful bacteria, etc.. (even after the manufactured chicken was given a bleach bath).  Just goes to show that our entire food system is fucked up. 

Mass production of food isn't the best way to go (especially for animals).  Also, even when the industry is shown that they can fix something they tend to ignore it and look for another bullshit way to fix it (harmful e coli in cattle that can be shed if given the proper diet a few weeks before slaughter).  Instead they keep feeding them corn which isn't what they are supposed to eat and try to find a new "scientific" way around the leaving the cow to stand in it's own/other cows' shit and eat malnutrition feed.  You already know this from watching the film but I just thought I'd throw it out there for anyone else.