The True Thievery Corporation

Thievery Corporation is a band of musicians who produce great music from the '00 decade. The core group is a duo who write and produce the songs, and they lead a carousel of other guest vocalist and musicians to fill the band roles and create the sound. Anyone would be hard pressed to identify the members of Thievery Corporation, or the hired artists who work with the band.

My key learning from the movie Food Inc. was that there is no single person that can be identified as the culprit in the industrial machine that has taken over the american/global food matrix. The Food Corps. are a few global corporations that are responsible for defining the standards and distributing the food (writing and producing), and leading small farms (guest musicians) to follow their rules and contribute the food products (songs) to their standards.

In addition to this learning I was shocked by the lack of protection our government provides between the individual and corporation. To quote an article from the Huffington Post this week entitled Protecting our governments from corporate influence,
" The Government agencies are under the influence of corporations they should regulate".

This combined Goverenment and Corporate Force is the True Thievery Corporation. These Thieves are ransacking the individual health and well-being.

We are witness to the destructive force of corporation and goverenment rules and standards to the food industry in Food Inc. The repurcussions to an individual health and well being are clearly shown in the movie Food Inc.

In the movie a family of four ate meals in the car as the parents had to drive to work. Work was crucial to pay for medications to treat the fathers diabetes.
Healthy food & meals were not an option due to cost, and preparation time. This viscious cycle is completed by the family being able to afford non-healthy corporate fast food in their car. The low cost, nutrient poor food does not support recovery from chronic conditions such as diabetes. So the underlying cause of diabetes is not addressed and the cycle of work for money, use money for meds and fast food, back to work for money for meds is not broken.

Protecting the individual within the current political structure is clearly impossible. Shown in the film, It has taken over 6 years of a young mother whose 3 year old died from E. Coli tainted meat to pass a simple law protecting the consumer from lax corporate standards.

The individual must recognize and use the force of free will. Also one should recognize and respond appropriately to their own inner guides to make better food choices. The daughters request for fruits and vegetables should have been heeded. She was the inner guide for the family at that point. The families concern for the diabetic condition may be a driving force for the recognization that lifestyle changes are required to reduce the medications and build better health with whole foods .

Food Inc was an eye-opening movie on many fronts, but the glimpse of the True Thievery Corporation was a score for this individual living dharma.