I just watched the premiere of Mad Cow Sacred Cow and thoroughly enjoyed it. I found it very informative and it makes me think about the food we eat. The program reminded me of a Michael Moore documentary ~ brilliant!

This was such an informative documentary. thankyou. we all need to be conscious of our choices. This is the place where our vote matters. this film does not mention fish specifically, but our wild stocks are suffering similarly from industrial production of salmon. We are giving up our future for profit margins today.

why is it that the contemporary film makers simply refuse to appreciate the nature's evolutionary process ? perhaps,they have no understanding of such a process at all,incidentally,Raj Rammiya is the glaring example of ignorance and pessimism.

We've been absolutely blindsided with the so called food that has been sold to us for the past thirty years. Not until recently have we been told what we have given up in exchange for low food prices - hormones and antibiotics in meat, fruit and vegetables which have no nutritional value because it's been replaced with food that travels well and looks appealing. It's a shame the government places the interests of corporations ahead of the interests of its citizens. And its time people recognized how destructive the World Health Organization is to the developing countries.

I lived in S Alberta for 3 years in late 90's. Through my work with a Regional Health region I visited cattle ranches and feed lots.
I stopped eating beef.
A super critical issue that was not discussed in this doc is the necessary use of meds and anti-biotics due to the numbers of herds that cattle are introduced to in their lifetime of about 18 months.
Average beef cattle will live with about 6 different herds in feed lots before they are slaughtered. Each time they enter the new herd each of them are innoculated with a cocktail of up to 10 chemicals and meds.
The second issue not discussed is the degradation of domestic water supply in communities where numerous feed lots are located. Consider the urine runoff from 10 feedlots with 25,000 cattle in each lot. Consider the smell. Whew!!

Fantastic doc that shows so clearly the connections between agri-business, food safety, the necessity for biodiversity, and the global connections that are not usually seen, but are actually so apparent. Well-balanced, beautifully filmed and directed, and showing brilliantly how the political IS personal! Kudos to Anand Ramiyya for this doc, and to CBC for showing it. Please show it again!

Dear Sir/Madam,

It was a great pleasure, to watch your documentry, Mad Cow & Scared Cow.

In past agriculture, was a culture, by some group of family,known as farmers to provide food to human beings in their socity in small scale for their survivle, and was carried out by generation after generation, and cow being the main contributer to this process.

Materialistic world has changed everything,not for better, but for the worst, old tradition of patience always paid good dividend on it's output, benefiting both farmers and the consumers.

Today, big business have taken over farming, love and care of farmer has vanished from the crops, everybody wants to make fast profit, day is not far, when cow will be histroical symbol, rear to find and people turning to vegiterian.

I watched this documentary tonight and so many emotions came over me. I was angry at the industry. I was sad for the loss of farmers lives and livelihood to this new form of agriculture. Confused, being a vegetarian since birth about why people even continue to eat meat without knowing these facts.

Relieved that someone has connected this global crisis, the mad cow crisis and farming crisis in India and Canada.

This documentary has made me ask myself what can i do? what can a 23 year old female with not alot of life experience, no money and an alrighty education, do?

Do i start protesting or writing letters or can i find someway!!! can i win millions of dollars and do what that women in the video asked in India ... to help clean their water and environment - physical change . we can discuss and agree it frickin scuks but how can we get enough people to help figure this problem out? Start somewhere and start spreading to continue solving these issues.

This was a great documentary. It really opened my soul again , reminding it - how am i living if i only help myself and not others?

Thank You!!!!!!

I loved this documentary that asked some hard questions of what value we put on what we put in our body. A detailed look at a personal dilemma with stunning visuals and beautiful music.

"Honour the things that keep you alive." "Do not go against nature." Those thoughts jumped out like bright neon lights while watching this documentary. Where I live there are small farms which have cows, pigs, sheep and chickens that are raised in the way that nature intended. They are completely organic. The problem is that the BC government wants to stop the farmers from selling these animals as food to the local population. It defies belief. I guess they would rather have us purchase the meat from the huge conglomerates. This documentary made me realize just how dangerous our food supply is and how complacent we have become in allowing government to control what we consume. I really believe that worshipping at the altar of the dollar is destroying the human race. Greed is our downfall.

It is clear that the real threat to global human cultural survival is the sociopathic character born from multinational corporations like Cargill and Monsanto. As a westerner who has adopted many aspects of Hindu culture over the past 30 years, including vegetarianism and farming with oxen, this documentary challenges my dogmas of pacivity in the face of this genocidal assault. Perhaps we have arrived at a time where previously distant cultures can now find sacred ground upon which to unite against this common foe of mass greed which is quickly consuming the planet.

- John Roberge
Nanaimo, BC

WHAT FRUSTRATES ME IS THE NON UNIVERSALITY OF LABELI NG LEADING TO CONFUSION. ALSO THE LACK OF CHOICE FOR NATURAL , HEALTHY, AND REASONABLY PRICED ALTERNATIVES. WE CAN ONLY BUY WHATS BEING SOLD. THE INDIFFERENCE OF GOVERNMENT IS INFURIATING.

Canada has one of the safest food supplies if not the best food safety standards in the world. This documentary tries to put doubt in the Canadian consumers mind and that bothers me. It worries me that Canadians may be taking for granted the high quality and safe food we eat every day. I find it very sad that this documentary gave the impression that agri-business has starved farmers and has put consumers at risk. Successful companies only grow and become large corporations because they keep their end customer in mind. The regulations and standards are set very high in Canada and the Beef industry is looked upon as having the highest quality healthy beef and excellent animal welfare. A healthy animal is a productive animal. Please use some common sense ladies and gentlemen. The young fellow that brought this documentary to you did not do his homework. Or he was looking at bringing a story to you that made you keep watching for the wrong reasons. He contacted radicals and aired half truths of rediculously misinformed information.
I do beleive there have been hardships for farmers across the world but perhaps the reason for this specifically in Canada is due to Market Access, Politics and mother nature (drought, floods) lets not forget the fluctuation in markets - high dollar, grain prices, labour shortages due to a booming oil industry in 2007-2008 and a population of farmers getting older and exiting the business. Common sense will always prevail ladies and gentlemen. Eat beef, it's healthy, it's produced by hard working ranchers and farmers that love the productive land and healthy cattle that nourish this world. Thank you,

Primitive man ate mammoths......and then buffalo......and now many modern humans eats cattle......In this day and age,it would seem wise to keep the animal's emotional and physical suffering to a minimum.

Yes, this was a very good documentary. Insightful, inspiring, and interesting. I was just wondering a few things...if there are less people farming and beef is mass produced, does that mean more people can work in the manufacturing and service sectors which in turn allows for greater productivity? Do these increases in productivity and division of labour allow more greater economic growth / development, which might equal higher standards of living? I believe in purchasing locally, organic grown food stuffs. However, I am not naive to the other side of the story...A few more questions...as some of you had already pointed, it looks as if certain government regulations / policy are helping to create a system of agricultural production in which corporate agribusiness if controlling the processing phase of production? Anyway, I am curious to see what other people think about this...

Cheers...

Good message, good presentation, and touching. It is helping people to bridge the gap between healthy choices and cheap food.
I often ask the question that human race is taking everything to survive from mother earth and how are we planning to pay back to mother earth?

Good job.

Cheers
Raman