Free Food, Inc. Screening Tuesday, April 14
Apr 10, 2009 events, farming, groceries, health, sustainable agriculture
How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families?
Slow Food St. Louis is pleased to announce our participation in a special screening of the new documentary, Food, Inc.
The makers of the film, Magnolia Pictures, and Participant Media, have graciously donated 130 tickets to the Tuesday, April 14th viewing of the film at the Tivoli Theatre. Officially due out June 12th, this is your chance to not only see what is sure to be a moving film months before opening, but also for free!
Those interested in attending can RSVP at http://sites.google.com/site/foodincrsvp/
Once there, click on the link for St. Louis and enter in your information. It’s first come, first serve, and people will be contacted by the film company – not Slow Food St. Louis – about their tickets.
For more information, continue reading after the jump or visit director Robert Kenner’s website for a complete trailer and reviews of the film.
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 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.
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 Farm’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.
Tags: Food, Inc., Robert Kenner, slow food
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April 15th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
I went to the film last night. I enjoyed it immensely though for me, they are preaching to the choir. I do feel a great deal of excitement about the subject being brought into the public limelight – this needs to happen as often as possible. I also think that Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser are fabulous advocates for the cause who, with their realness, make you want to listen to every word they have to say. On the other hand, I found the film to be a bit choppy and disjointed. Quickly jumping from subject to subject like a kid who is talking too fast. Perhaps the problem is that there IS SO MUCH TO SAY, it is such a big problem in our world, that the minute one has the microphone, one wants to say it all. There are a dozen important documentarys here – you have to really pay attention or the impact of the factoid being dropped will pass you by.
April 15th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
I’m glad I’m not the only one that found it a bit disjointed.
It was still an entertaining documentary, and the people they chose to speak in it were very engaging for a number of different reasons.
How many people see it will be an interesting thing though. Documentaries do not traditionally do to well, and this isn’t something the majority of Americans–SADLY–think about.