Food Inc.

I really want to go see “Food Inc.” a film from Magnolia Pictures, produced by Eric Schlosser (investigative journalist and author of Fast Food Nation) and directed by Robert Kenner (www.robertkennerfilms.com

It opens this Friday June 12^th (tomorrow) in New York, LA and San Francisco, and on subsequent dates in more parts of the country (view completely listings here) if people go to see it, it will be released nationwide, which is really where it needs to be seen.

It’s a film about, as you may have guessed, the food industry, and it presents honest, sometimes shocking accounts of practices in our country and how the food industry is truly the #1 health threat to our country (1 in 3 children born after the year 2000 will develop Type II Diabetes). The cost is really much greater than we can all imagine. At its heart though, it’s a film about a nation that wants to and desperately needs to put the power back in the hands of the people and I guarantee that it will be an empowering and beautiful experience for you no matter where you lie on the vegan-to-carnivore or Wal-Mart-to-farmer’s market spectrum.

Please go see this film, and please tell others to go see this film. You can’t afford not to.

“Food Inc.” premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September to standing ovations and rave reviews. Per Eric Schlosser (he was at the screening last night), “The fast food industry spends over $10 Billion a year on marketing and advertising. Magnolia Pictures’ marketing budgeting for this film is far less.” Thus I am taking it upon myself and enlisting you to spread the word about this film to anyone you know who eats food.

You can watch a short trailer and learn more here: www.foodincmovie.com

Official Synopsis:

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’ 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.

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