Date: 10/20/2009 1:36:27 PM
Subject: Food, Inc. (2008)
You'll Never Look At Dinner The Same Way.
How Much Do We Really Know About The Food We Buy At Our Local Supermarkets And Serve To 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, herbicide-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.
-trailer-
The current method of raw food production is largely a response to the growth of the fast food industry since the 1950s. The production of food overall has more drastically changed since that time than the several thousand years prior. Controlled primarily by a handful of multinational corporations, the global food production business - with an emphasis on the business - has as its unwritten goals production of large quantities of food at low direct inputs (most often subsidized) resulting in enormous profits, which in turn results in greater control of the global supply of food sources within these few companies. Health and safety (of the food itself, of the animals produced themselves, of the workers on the assembly lines, and of the consumers actually eating the food) are often overlooked by the companies, and are often overlooked by government in an effort to provide cheap food regardless of these negative consequences. Many of the changes are based on advancements in science and technology, but often have negative side effects. The answer that the companies have come up with is to throw more science at the problems to bandage the issues but not the root causes. The global food supply may be in crisis with lack of biodiversity, but can be changed on the demand side of the equation.
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the official website which has some excellent information and a
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