I really want to see this film. Currently, it is playing at a movie house waaaay on the other side of town at Nuart in West L.A. Uhm, nope. What this tells me is this film will not get the play or distribution as other films and I can guess why. Could it be it will tell us more than we want to know about the food we’re eating. Ding, ding, ding. That’s it.
The official synopsis for the film is this:
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 cause 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) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farms’ Gary Hirschberg and Polyface Farms’ Joe 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.
Very few want to know about that blown up steroid chicken that will blow you up when you eat it or that your resistance to antibiotics may be due in large part to the amount of antibiotics in the meat you’re eating. Sorry, didn’t mean to burst any bubbles there.
Since I have not seen the film I cannot get into all that may or may not be in the film. I do know I have become very suspicious of food lately. I encourage anyone wanting to know a little something about the food and how it arrives at your table, check out this film. Me? Well, I’ll be a the farmer’s market buying organic thank you.
June 15th, 2009 → 12:48 pm @ A.D. Odom
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