-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.
Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric
Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The
Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater's
Manifsto) 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.
-The Future of Food (Two Disc Special Edition):
There is a revolution happening in the farm fields
and on the dinner tables of America that is
transforming the very nature of the food we eat.
This well-researched documentary by Deborah Koons
Garcia, the widow of the legendary Grateful Dead
guitarist Jerry Garcia, takes an in-depth look at
the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled,
patented, genetically engineered foods that have
quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the
past decades. This film examines the complex web
of market and political forces that are changing
what we eat as huge, multinational corporations
seek to control the world?s food systems but also
explores alternatives to large-scale industrial
agriculture, offering solutions like organic and
sustainable agriculture as alternative food
sources.
Special Features:
DISC 1: Feature, additional interviews- Dr.
Michael Hansen & Dr. Arpad Pusztai
DISC 2: Farmer?s Portraits, Community Supported
Agriculture, Farmer?s Markets, Seed Saving,
Bringing Healthy Food into schools
| Languages: | English |
| Runtime: | 212 min. |
| Number of discs: | 3 |
