Food Inc. the film: Is modern agriculture making you sick?
by Drew Price on July 23, 2009
in Uncategorized
Much has changed in the way we grown, process, transport and prepare our foods but is this rapid change responsible for a rapid decline in our health?
A new film on the heals of books like Fast Food Nation, the Omnivore’s Dilemma and Good Calories, Bad Calories seeks to tackle what is seen as the growing problem of the industrialization of food manufacture. The issues debated include
- Food quality and health
- Food pricing and food as commodity
- Labeling and health, misleading claims and ‘hiding’ of foods.
- Power and size of food producers: global companies versus the small producers
The copy on the site reads:
“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, herbicide-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.”
It’s co produced by Eric Schlosser the author of Fast Food Nation which is a great read but docu-films of this type always seem to have either a skewed premise, problems with the quality of research or clear editorial bias so It’ll be interesting to see if it is just a lot of hype and stats or whether there is some actual unbiased information.
Here’s the trailer to wet your appetite:
REVIEWS are strating to come in now and I’ll update as they do:
Review at ‘Free the Animal’ blog
Review at ‘Vegan Bits’ Giving a very veggie perspective!
