Food, Inc. website

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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.

View trailer at http://www.foodincmovie.com/

 

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