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, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that cause 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 (who will be the featured speaker at Plano's "Live Green Expo" on April 17th), 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.
For more information about the film, go to http://www.foodincmovie.com
For a list of "5 things you can do now" go to http://www.takepart.com/foodinc
After the film, CORE member Joyce Marshall led us in a discussion to help us process the movie—sharing what we saw, heard, and felt, and then voicing what commitments we would make from what we learned.
For more information about CORE's "Local Food Makes $ense" effort and for joining CORE's Texoma-Grown Directory of growers and producers, see our F O O D page.
January 30, 2010
To help educate our local citizens about the real costs of our nation's current food 'system', we showed, “Food, Inc."
