Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/07/2012
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Location
Push Push Theatre
Category(ies) No Categories
Cost: Admission is free. Donations are encouraged.
WHAT: Screening of the film, Food, Inc.
Food, Inc. is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Kenner.
WHY: As documented in this film, food supply issues in America are at a critical state. The intention of this screening is to raise consumer awareness on food-related issues and to provide an opportunity for community-based discussions.
HOST: Food Supply Rescue Coalition (FSRC)
Please join us for an evening of screening and discussion.
After the film, the Food Supply Rescue Coalition (FSRC) will lead a discussion on the information shared in this film.
Location: Push Push Theatre
121 New Street. Decatur, GA 30030
404.377.6332
ABOUT THE FILM: 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 Manifesto) 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.
RUNNING TIME: 94 Minutes
RATING: PG (USA)