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Food, Inc.
You are what you eat, the saying goes. But do you really KNOW what you eat? Filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the curtain on the unsavory practices of our nation’s food industry. The film illustrates how the corporate purveyors of food products have literally gotten away with murder—and all with the complicity of our government’s regulatory agencies. As Kenner shows in detail, the food supply in the United States is controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit before health—not only of the consumers of their processed foodstuffs, but the economic health of farmers and food workers, and the health of the environment. Drawing on the works of authors Eric Schlosser (“Fast Food Nation”) and Michael Pollan (“The Omnivore’s Dilemma”), Kenner’s film details the cozy relationship between agribusiness and government—a relationship that allows the corporate behemoth Monsanto to monopolize soybean production and litigate aggressively against small farmers who harvest their own seeds rather than buy Monsanto’s genetically engineered seeds. Food, Inc. paints a vivid picture of the wages of unsustainable food production—obesity, diabetes, and E. COLI poisoning. But for all its outrage, Food, Inc. posits a hopeful (and delicious) future, highlighting a burgeoning organic farming movement that has made it all the way to the White House lawn. Producer Elise Pearlstein expected to attend May 30 screening
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Cast & Crew
Director: Robert Kenner
Producer: Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein
Editor: Kim Roberts
Cinematographer: Richard Pearce
Music: Mark Adler
Filmography: Debut Feature Film
World Sales: Fortissimo Films
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very insightful, Jun 08, 2009
By denise packer
“this was an excellent documentary. i went in fairly well-informed about this subject, but was stunned to find out even more atrocities that i was not aware of! it was descriptive without being redundant and informative without being preachy. it just makes you question more, learn and read more”
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Food, Inc., Jun 10, 2009
By Mindy Blaski
“Well done very informative and shocking. A definite must see!”
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Wake up and smell the truth!, Jun 11, 2009
By Mimi Noyes
“This is a must-see movie not because it's well made (though it is that), not because it's interesting and informative (and this), but because people in our society are asleep, complacent, and it seems that even the written word fails to rouse us from our slumber, to outrage us. Maybe that is why”
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