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Posted on June 9, 2009 by diane
Food, Inc
How much do we really know about the food we buy in our local supermarket to feed our families?
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.
Watch the trailer:
Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
UPDATE:Â Film opens Friday 6/19/09 in Chicago at the theaters below. Click here for play dates around the country.
Chicago, IL: Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema
Evanston, IL: CineArts 6 – Evanston
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[...] June 9, 2009 in Uncategorized | Tags: food documentary, food inc, food inc documentary, food inc movie, organic food How much do we really know about the about the food we buy in our local supermarket to feed our families? From Organic in Chicago: [...]
Thanks for posting the trailer for Food, Inc., coming out in theaters June 12, in San Francisco, New York City, and Los Angeles! There is also a book companion to the movie, Food, Inc. available at Amazon.com. The book explores topics that were discussed in the movie, such as the industrialization of our food supply and the benefits of local and organic eating. Food experts including Marion Nestle, Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan, and Anna Lappé, take these topics to another level through thirteen fascinating essays, some of which have been written especially for the movie. Check it out!
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When will this movie come to Chicago
The film opens Friday 6/19/09 in Chicago. Click here for play dates around the country.
Chicago, IL: Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema
Evanston, IL: CineArts 6 – Evanston
[...] After reading Omnivore’s Dilemma, I definitely respect what author Michael Pollan has to say about food and America’s eating habits. Pollan also appears in the new documentary Food, Inc. [...]
Where did you take from such kind of information? Can you give me the source?