The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Blake Hurst gives thanks : If the movie “Food, Inc.” can be said to have a theme, it is that corn is too cheap. Cheap corn has led to industrial uses, cheap fast food, and, horror of horrors, corn fed to cows. This year's harvest is bad news for documentary makers, because we're bringing in a tremendous crop. Corn prices are at two-year lows. Author of Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser's...
FitSugar (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
... industry is exposed in this documentary narrated by Omnivore's Dilemma author Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser of Fast Food Nation . Arguing for sustainable food production, the film's antagonist is not the farmer or the carnivore but multinational corporation Monsanto. Purchase ($14) the 94-minute film or Netflix it.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
... The irony is, cost-effectiveness is what McDonald's based itself on from the get-go in 1956. As Eric Schlosser showed us in Fast Food Nation , McDonald's minted industrialized food production as we know it. Instead of local restaurants serving local food, it created a nationwide assembly line system that grows and processes food as cheaply as possible. Sounds kind of cool in a Rube...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
World Centric features the film FOOD INC. as well as FOSSIL FUEL FREE FILM by local filmmaker Matt Harnack. Harnack will be speaking after the films. 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...
PopCultureShock (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... it’s not pretty. Food Inc. is narrated by Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food , and Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation , who intelligibly explain that the American farmer is all but dead, slaves to large corporations who want to propagate some myth that the food you get in your local grocery comes from the local farm. Farmers sign contracts with the big companies,...
33 1/3 (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
... - Blue Like Jazz 17. Carl Wilson - Let's Talk About Love 16. Joseph O'Neill - Netherland 15. Eric Schlosser - Fast Food Nation 14. JK Rowling - Harry Potter series 13. Ian McEwan - Atonement 12. Doug Blackmon - Slavery By Another Name 11. David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day 10. David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster 9. Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything Is Illuminated 8. Joan...
King Politics (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Fast food has taken a public relations beating the last several years. One of the best books I'v read in the last ten years was Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation . It exposes the fast food industry as a deceitful, unhealthy, fattening world of profits. Then there was Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me , a cheeky expose of what an all-Mickey D's diet will do to you. Then there's Michael Pollan's...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
... 1 hour, 26 minutes. You are what you eat Michael Pollan, author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma," and Eric Schlosser, author of "Fast Food Nation," team up in the documentary "Food, Inc." They give viewers a sober and unflattering look at corporate food production. PG. 1 hour, 34 minutes.
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Food, Inc. examines where our food comes from, and with commentary from Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (In Defense of Food), the story isn't pretty as corporate greed is shown to define a nation's diet. Another...
Chefdruck Musings (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
... in danger to our families. Producer-director Robert Kenner partnered with investigative authors Eric Schlosser ( Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal ) and Michael Pollan ( The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals ) to interview farmers, families, and food experts to explain all of the issues surrounding our food supply today in simple and impactful...
The FanHouse - Notre Dame Football (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
by Kevin Blackistone Filed under: NFL Sylvester Stallone has Hollywood all a twitter (the old school use of the word) right now over an action flick he is producing called The Expendables . Reason is, it stars a bunch of guys' guys including Jason Statham, Jet Li, Julia Roberts' brother Eric and Mickey Rourke, who back in the day I thought Bruce Willis was a cheap imitation of. The movie is...
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... coast (either coast), trust me when I say it’s actually non-partisan. Neither Michael Pollan nor Eric Schlosser are telling you to stop eating meat and eggs, but both men want you to be more aware of what goes into the food on your plate. Their target is the corporate food industry, and the factual information they have to share is often frightening, sometimes shocking, and always...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... isn’t any more complicated than it’s ever been. And thanks to a number of authors, including Eric Schlosser ( Fast Food Nation ) and Michael Pollan ( The Omnivore’s Dilemma , In Defense of Food ), people have slowly started to take a more active role in what they eat. But book sales being what they are, a movie about the ugly underbelly of agribusiness is probably a more effective...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
The idea that dinner is dangerous should conjure up the memories of bad dates past, disgruntled Thanksgiving celebrations or maybe visions of zombie lobsters. But for Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, the men who wrote "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "Fast Food Nation," respectively, the grossest, most callous, inhumane and ultimately destructive part of your supper happens months before...
Living the Scientific Life (Scienti (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
tags: Food, Inc. , food industry , factory farming , health , documentary , film , movie trailer , Eric Schlosser , streaming video This is the official trailer for a 2008 documentary based on Eric Schlosser's research (Supersize Me!). It identifies, describes and details the problems of the food industry, its effects upon our health and provides us -- the consumer -- with...
