Thursday, June 11, 2009

FOOD INC.--the movie

Mark your calendars for July 3, 2009!
You will never look at dinner the same way again.


If you have not heard about it already, there is a new movie opening on June 12 that you might like to see! So far the only play date for the northeastern Ohio area is July 3 in Cleveland Heights @ the Cedar Lee Theatres.

One of the people staring in the movie is Joel Salatin and his Polyface Farm....the farm that Nathan apprenticed at a few years ago.

Watch movie trailer @ www.foodincmovie.com

SHORT SYNOPSIS OF THE MOVIE:

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.


Features 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.

MOVIE REVIEWS:
"Does for the supermarket what 'Jaws' did for the beach. "- Staff, Variety

"More than a terrific movie—it's an important movie." - Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

"A riveting cautionary tale. This is one movie that truly provides food for thought." - Patrick Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

"A cleverly written and well produced documentary. Kenner crafts an intelligent, visually compelling argument grounded in old-fashioned investigative research and journalism." - Maria Garcia, Film Journal International

"Excellent in every respect." - Pete Hammon, BoxOffice Magazine

1 comment:

Karyl Lee said...

Hi, I picked this way to contact you after I picked up food today. Here is the link from Local Harvest, which was picked up by NRDC, the site I was telling you about.
http://www.localharvest.org/search.jsp?map=1&lat=41.286311&lon=-82.234157&scale=9&ty=-1&co=1&nm=strawberries&zip=44074
It wasn't until I searched by both zip and item that I got your listing, so I think it's a pretty good search engine at Local Harvest.