Food, Inc. at Morning Star Studio, Saturday, November 28. Film and panel discussion sponsored by JFAN, Radiance Dairy, Buy Fresh Buy Local, SLC, Sierra Club, and KRUU-FM.
So, what’s really in the food you are eating? Food, Inc., a highly acclaimed expose by producer/director Robert Kenner, is a searing look at what we call food these days. This eye-opening documentary will be shown on Saturday, November 28 at 7:00 pm at Morning Star Studio.
Compelling and powerful €“ it rates 97% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer €“ Food, Inc. lifts the veil of secrecy on the US food industry. Investigative authors Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) divulge the real cost of the €œcheap€ food we buy and its impacts on consumer health, the livelihood of American farmers, worker safety, and the environment.
€œThere hasn’t been a film this important about American food production, and probably not about industrialized food anywhere,€ says Corby Kummer in The Atlantic.
A panel discussion will follow the film, featuring Francis Thicke, co-owner and co-operator of Radiance Dairy; Mary Carter, director of Buy Fresh Buy Local; and organic farmer Steve Hickenbottom. The film is sponsored by Jefferson County Farmers & Neighbors, Inc. in partnership with Radiance Dairy, Buy Fresh Buy Local, Sustainable Living Coalition, Sierra Club, and KRUU-FM.
Interviews with food experts, farmers, businessmen, government representatives, and food advocates reveal where our food comes from and how it is made. Creative animation and clever graphics interspersed throughout the film expose the highly mechanized, Orwellian corporate underbelly deliberately hidden from the American consumer.
The film also features courageous people, like Stonyfield Farm’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farm’s Joel Salatin, who are finding ways to work inside and outside the system to improve food quality. Others are brave men and women who have chosen to speak out, such as chicken farmer Carole Morison, seed cleaner Moe Parr, and food safety advocate Barbara Kowalcyk.
While Food, Inc. doesn’t contain representatives from the food giants, it’s not from a lack of trying. Monsanto, Tyson, Perdue and Smithfield all refused to be interviewed for the film.
“Don’t take another bite till you see Food, Inc.” – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Magazine
Need we say more?
Admission to Food, Inc. is $5. An organic bake sale will be held. Donations and all profits support the work of the sponsoring organizations.
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I was impressed with this film. I thought it accurately identified the primary cause of many of the problems with the modern food supply, including an ignorance of its source, government restricting access to information, and worst, government subsidies for corn production in the United States.
The government will always want to subsidize the food industry, to stabilize food prices and to keep food prices low enough to allow the poor to eat. Without some kind of government control of the free market I don't know how else to accomplish those goals. You call it "interference", but I think it is a necessity.
But as the film points out, the subsidies are skewed towards food that's bad for us. Can we push the system to subsidize the food that's good?
Yes – it's not the existence of food subsidies that I am opposed to, it's the specific practices those subsidies promote.
It may not be that simple. When the government subsidizes anything, the country generally gets more of it. Corn may not have become the monster it is today without the interference; if we choose something else to subsidize we may be bizarre forms of that food as well.
We could subsidize omega 3 fish oil production, but we would likely find that in a few years we have high fructose fish syrup, cheap MSG produced from fish remains, gasoline, and myriad other products that will be born of the artificially reduced price of fish oil.
The solution is to educated the public regarding nutrition and healthy meal choices.
"The solution is to educated the public regarding nutrition and healthy meal choices. "
The execution of that solution means taking on the marketing budgets of the very industries that don't have our nutrition in mind. Go to the Chicago Museum of Industry or the Zoo. You'll find large exhibits "educating" people on the merits of corn based products, corn fed beef, CAFOs, pesticides and all the other "advancements" that are make up the problem.
The good news is that the Internet, and sinking cost of producing and distributing information and media, is making that battle more even.