Food Inc., a film about the bionic corporate crap we eat, opens this week.....

[marmar]

http://www.foodincmovie.com/about-the-film.php



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, 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 the trailer: http://www.foodincmovie.com/trailer-and-photos.php

[Big Blue Marble]

1. Reforming our food industry

would be the best health care reform we could have.

We, the consumers, have been had when it comes to what we eat.

[ihavenobias]

2. I really want to see this, but I don't see that it's playing in Chicago.

Surprising actually. Maybe later this summer or fall?

PS---The reviews are good so far: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/food_inc/

[marmar]

3. I think it opens either next week or the week after at Landmark Century Center in Chicaogo.....

..... if I remember the list correctly.

[ihavenobias]

5. I'll have to check again.

A couple of nights ago it wasn't listed on their website.

[dmosh42]

4. Thanks for the reminder. I'll be watching for this important movie n/t

[slay]

6. K&R

Looks to have some good info - I'll definatly be checking it out.

[leftstreet]

7. "bigger-breasted chickens"

[handmade34]

13. too funny!

...hate to be serious after that but - when I ordered straight run (not sexed) random chicks - they threw in a couple of meat birds and they are like alien birds. They get so big so fast, they develop deformed feet and sometimes they can't walk well and usually end up sitting down while they eat. Very sad.




From the Murray McMurry (always buy my chicks from them) catalog - "This is the most remarkable meat producing bird we have ever seen. Special matings produce chicks with broad breasts, big thighs, white plumage, and yellow skin. The rapid growth of these chicks is fantastic and the feed efficiency remarkable. If you want to raise capons, buy males and have them caponized at 2 or 3 weeks of age... Males will dress from 3 to 4 pounds in six to eight weeks...
Please Note: Jumbo Cornish X Rocks are hybrids. Therefore we do not recommend breeding, they will not produce the same high quality in the next generation and due to the extreme rate of growth they will be too large at time of sexual maturity to breed successfully."

[slay]

8. Doesn't open for me until July 17th - but I will definatly go see it

Just glad it's playing here at least. :)

[AspenRose]

9. I saw this on Facebook

Can't wait to see the movie

[tabbycat31]

10. I want to see this

I saw the book at my library and intend on picking it up.

[woo me with science]

11. Bought what I thought was a carton of fruit juice yesterday.

It said, "Orange Strawberry Banana" on the label, had a big picture of luscious fruit, and was right next to the premium orange juice and packaged the same way. It did not say "orange/strawberry/banana DRINK" on the carton, so I just assumed it was juice.

Got it home and read more carefully. It was 20 percent juice. The rest was high fructose corn syrup and water.

You just can't shop quickly anymore.

[handmade34]

12. Thank you for the info

I happen to be working in LA right now and the movie opens in a theater a few miles from me. Just bought tickets online!

[david13]

14. I do not want to see it. If it makes me not eat, what then?

I'll starve to death. I don't want that.
dc

[azul]

15. Would that humans had the choice to photosynthesize.

Man, wouldn't it be great if we could just sit in the sun and breath in CO2?

We may have to do something drastic in the near future if we kill off too many life forms and upset the balance of nature on this planet. GM foods are poisoning us and probably changing the environment in unpredictable ways.

We do know that some species are survivors, and if it eventually comes down to cockroaches and rats and humans, I think that I would prefer eating CO2 to the other dismal options.

Good thing that we know the genetic code now and how to go about changing the world and ourselves in our wisdom?