Movie: Food, Inc., opening June 12

Posted on Jun 11, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Food, Home & Garden, Media/Videos

We’ve never had food companies this powerful in our history.

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.

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.

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5 Responses to “Movie: Food, Inc., opening June 12”

linda

11. Jun, 2009

I just discovered Jamie’s Ministry of Food on HGTV. He goes to a town in England to try and teach the people how to cook their own food again. The western world has forgotten what real food is, and health is going downhill because of it (and all the toxic chemicals we’re exposed to both in and out of our food). I hope this film gets seen by billions of people.

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Jasmine

12. Jun, 2009

As Linda said, I really hope enough people see this film and start to act together. We’re just dealing with too many illnesses to not see a link!

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Susie Collins

12. Jun, 2009

It’s true, Linda, the public has totally forgotten what real food is, they think food comes from a supermarket, period.

Jasmine, I am horrified by what people are eating! And I’m telling you, if I get sloppy and eat crap, I pay for it quick! The best is to eat organic, local, fresh food.

But it’s really the cruelty to the animals in corporate farming that always makes me the saddest. It’s even worse to me than the chemical and contamination issues. My primary reason for not eating meat are for the ethical issues surrounding corporate animal husbandry.

Also, I love this guideline for eating, I think it’s from Michael Pollan: If it wasn’t in your grandmother’s kitchen, you shouldn’t be eating it. I might take it a step further and say great grandmother, esp for the younger generation now dealing with a plethora of inferior, crappy food.

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linda

13. Jun, 2009

I found a neat post “Why Garden” and I copied my favorite part below:

http://simple-green-frugal-co-op.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-garden.html

“Food really becomes precious when you put all this work into it.” … I want to eat food that either I or someone else actually gave a damn about, because I know in my bones that it is better for me, for my local community, and for the environment as a whole.”

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Susie Collins

14. Jun, 2009

I loved that post on gardening, Linda! That’s one of my favorite blogs.

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