Food, Inc. Where To See It

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Do you find it natural that tomatoes stay “fresh” for weeks in our refrigerators?

A friend of mine forgot an apple on the windowsill when she went on at summer vacation.
After 2 weeks in a sunny window you would imagine the apple to be crawling. But NO.
When she got back it looked just perfect. Like a tasty, crisp apple.
The inside did not look as tasty but the outside was perfect.

It’s crazy! Our food should not be that way!

This is exactly what Robert Kenny shows us in his new movie Food, Inc.

Here is more about the movie:

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that’s 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.

Right now you can only see the movie on a film festival:

• Minneapolis St. Paul: April 16-30, 2009
• River Run Int’l Film Festival: April 22-29, 2009
• Athens Film Festival: April 23-30, 2009
• Newport Beach Film Festival: April 30 – May 7, 2009
• Maryland Film Festival:  May 7 – 10, 2009
• High Falls Film Festival:  May 13 – 18, 2009
• Berkshire Intl. Film Festival:  May 14 – 17, 2009

June 12, 2009 it will be released to theaters in the US. First in California and New York. You can check out the release schedule here.

Food, Inc. does for the supermarket what ‘Jaws’ did for the beach.
-Variety.

I think this is another of those movies we all have to see.

Image by *Noema*.

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