·1 Information on U.S. food, food companies, and most production systems is publically available from the company, industry associations, the regulatory agencies, and farm groups.

·2 The movie tries to deliberately exploit consumers' ignorance about production agriculture and food production, processing, and preparation.

·3 Farmers are some of the industry's most powerful spokespersons. Many farmers are able and eager to tell consumers how they produce food.

·4 Over 96% of all farms in America are family farms. Family farms can be large, small, or somewhere in between.

·5 No matter the size of the farm, farmers know that a healthy environment and healthy animals make for healthy food for consumers.

·6 The majority of soybeans grown in the U.S. are not insecticide-resistant, they are herbicide-tolerant. This means they may be treated with modern herbicides, allowing farmers to control weeds with little or no tillage.

·7 Modern herbicides are much more benign than other products and methods used in the past to control weeds.

·8 The U.S. food system developed and evolved to meet the needs of changing consumer preferences and trends.

·9 Such trends and preferences are transmitted to the food industry and retailers via annual surveys (most of which are publically available).

·10 Each year, the food companies and retailers use the results of the surveys to develop new products, marketing ideas, etc.

·11 Large food companies did not create and do not control the food system.

·1 More Americans work away from home and eat away from home, thereby demanding quick meals and convenience.

·2 Americans like branding and consistency resulting in large companies and marketing firms having brand power over "mom and pop" outlets.

·3 Size equals economic efficiency in the food industry just as in others.

·4 Food companies are owned by shareholders/consumers who demand a profit on their investment. Decisions made on behalf of those shareholders' profit interests can hardly call it innate corporate greed.

·5 Corn and soybeans are two of the least supported U.S. crops.

·6 The American Medical Association, the American Dietetic Association, and others agree that ingredients like high fructose corn syrup are not the cause of obesity or related health concerns.

·7 Rather, increased caloric intake along with little or no exercise is the primary cause of obesity.

·8 The modern food system provides American consumers with the most affordable and wholesome food in the world.

·9 Consumers' knowledge about food storage and preparation, has declined markedly in the past 30 years. This results in greater chance for human error in food choices and preparation.

·10 The amount of time and the methods used (e.g., microwaves) have changed considerably, requiring consumers to increase (not decrease) knowledge and vigilance.

·11 Many of the estimated 76 million cases of food-borne illnesses in the U.S. are contracted in the home, and many can be prevented through proper kitchen health, storage, and cooking.

·12 By their nature, food systems are biological and thus not failsafe. However, we are improving food safety all the time, particularly through reporting and tracing when food problems occur.

·13 Twelve years ago, the CDC improved its data collection of food-borne illnesses; the result: a 25% decline in E. coli ailments. Other bacterial infections are down by about 33%.

·14 The majority of food borne illnesses attributed to e-coli comes at some point in the food chain outside of the slaughter facility.

·15 The movie implies that organic foods are less likely to contain e-coli or other contaminants. This is simply not true, the e-coli outbreak in California spinach in 2006 was caused in and by an organic process.

·16 The movie implies that cows fed corn instead of grass have increased incidences of e-coli contamination. Corn is a grass.

·1 Most seeds are patented because of the way the propagate; they can be reproduced by replanting each year.

·2 Seed/technology companies spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop patented seeds that are hugely popular with producers worldwide (as evidenced by their 97% adoption rate for soybeans and 80% adoption rate for corn across the U.S.)

·3 Major biotech providers have licensing agreements for seed distribution and marketing with hundreds of other companies.

·4 Farmers support patenting and licensing agreements that protect the technology so farmers can have the highest yielding technology in the world and maintain global competitiveness.

·5 Farmers in the movie "not able to speak" about the saving seed saving are prohibited from doing so for legal reasons, not because of corporate power. The farmers shown are accused of knowingly saving a patented technology; a crime in the U.S.

·1 The employment of former technology or other corporate employees in government has more to do with the fact that these employees are highly trained in the relevant technologies needed by regulators to appropriately regulate the food system than anything else.

·2 Government jobs typically pay significantly less than what these individuals would have made in the private sector.