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Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald: Greed in the Seed: The "Inconvenient Truth" of How Food Gets to Your Table Revealed in Food, Inc.

Sort by The Huffington Post (Free subscription) - 11/06/2009

The riveting documentary Food, Inc. (opening in select cities tomorrow) presents elements of the food industry that can put profit ahead of food safety, workers'...

FDL Movie Night: Food Inc.

Sort by Firedoglake (Free subscription) - 16/06/2009

Food Inc. rend the veil of secrecy that hides the ugly part of America's food supply from consumers. It's like that cliche, "You don't want to see how sausages are made.." Or your chicken sandwiches, or beef. Or anything made with corn--which is just about everything we consume. Food Inc shows how our food is the end product of a highly mechanized system, where workers are expendable, where 80% of...

Chat Today With the Famous Omnivore, Michael Pollan

Sort by Treehugger (Free subscription) - 02/07/2009

O.K., yes I have a crush on Michael Pollan and have had ever since I interviewed him during an infamous Portland ice storm. And yes, my husband knows. And yes, Michael Pollan is married. But also, big yes, as part of the press around the opening of the film Food Inc. , you can

Towleroad Guide to the Tube #472

Sort by Towleroad (Free subscription) - 30/04/2009

CHARLIE CRIST: On the state's Jesus Christ license plate. SUSAN BOYLE: Gets her skirt looked up, and a long snog after singing "My Kind of People" on Michael Barrymore's UK show in 1995. FOOD INC: The first three minutes of...

First Three Minutes of 'Food, Inc.' Will Make You Hungry For More

Sort by Cinematical (Free subscription) - 30/04/2009

Full disclosure: I was a junk food junkie. Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me made me stop and think when I eventually saw it -- after an intervention -- and gradually I've reduced my intake. But, of course, it's not just fast food that can cause health problems, it's everything we put into our bodies. So when Cinematical debuted the poster for the new doc Food, Inc. earlier this month, I got intrigued....

Behind The Food, Inc Movie-- Massive Bribes To Congress From AgriBusiness

Sort by DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) - 26/04/2009

Last night I went to see the Anvil movie. It was great. But a trailer for Food, Inc stuck in my consciousness as much as the story about these Jewish Canadian heavy metal rockers. And I found that trailer... for you: It's not just about healthy and nutritious food either. With the whole country alarmed about an unending series of food-borne illnesses and, courtesy of the "Free Market" Bush gang and...

The one thing filmmaker Robert Kenner ('Food, Inc.') will never eat again

Sort by bookofjoe (Free subscription) - 17/06/2009

Long answer short: strawberries. His full answer to Jane Black's question, in a Q&A published in last Sunday's Washington Post : "But if there's one thing, it would have to be strawberries sprayed with pesticides. We saw people in the...

Chew On the First Three Minutes of ‘Food, Inc.’

Sort by RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) - 30/04/2009

While I think features such as this for narrative story-telling hurts films, I think it is quality marketing for documentaries that need to go the extra mile to attract an audience as Magnolia Pictures has released the first three minutes of their upcoming “you don’t know what you are eating” doc Food, Inc. The tagline for [...]

Strap on your tinfoil Chefs' hats

Sort by The Reaction (Free subscription) - 27/04/2009

By J. Thomas Duffy And, with good cause. I had been looking at various articles, and posts, on the burgeoning Swine Flu pandemic ( breaking this evening: 1. U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency Over Swine Flu , and, 2. It may be enormo-corp Smithfield Foods at the epicenter of it ), and came across DownWithTyranny (you should book mark this blog - typically, excellent writing, research and perspective)...

Food, Inc.

Sort by Blue Hampshire (Free subscription) - 23/03/2009

New Hampshire is the connection to everything good... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03... "This has never been just about business," said Gary Hirshberg, chief executive of Stonyfield Farm, the maker of organic yogurt. "We are here to change the world. We dreamt for decades of having this moment." Elections have consequences and Gary continues to lead the way toward healthier and safer food standards....

Food Inc: Will It Connect the Dots on Food System Problems?

Sort by Framing Science (Free subscription) - 16/06/2009

Over the past decade, issues such as fast food and obesity, organics and pesticides, genetic engineering, and factory farming have each captured their share of attention from engaged citizens and advocacy groups. Focusing events, such as the 2008 factory farming ballot initiative in California or the 2000 Starlink GM corn episode have generated spikes in news coverage. Popular books such as Eric Schlosser's...

Wouldn't It Be Great If Everyone Could Afford To Buy Organic Or Had Space To Grown Their Own/

Sort by Meet Me At Mikes (Free subscription) - 10/03/2009

Food, Inc.: We Vote Three Times a Day

Sort by LAist (Free subscription) - 14/06/2009

“The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000, but the image that’s used to sell the food … you go into the supermarket and you see pictures of farmers. The picket fence and the silo and the 1930s farmhouse and the green grass. The reality is … it’s not a farm, it’s a factory.” That is a quote from food journalist Michael Pollan in Food, Inc. (talked about on LAist...

The Truth About Food — Food, Inc

Sort by Veggie Chic (Free subscription) - 12/08/2009

Food, Inc. is a documentary about how our food has changed so much over the past 50 years, despite the pastoral scenes often depicted on products. It’s also about how big food corporations don’t want people to know the full truth. Filmmaker Robert Kenner worked to bring Food, Inc. to the screen for more than six years. He was denied interviews he wanted. Rotten Tomatoes review site has given the film...

The Food Policy Vacuum

Sort by Welcome Back to Pottersville (Free subscription) - 29/06/2009

Almost a week ago, Tara Lohan published an interview on Alternet with documentarian Robert Kenner, whose latest project is Food, Inc. While tens of millions of people flocked last weekend to the theaters to see Transformers II , Food, Inc . was also released in theaters on Friday with hardly any fanfare. Indeed, you can be officially and legally classified a nerd if you'd rather sit through a documentary...