Food, Inc.[video recording] [videorecording] / Magnolia Pictures ; Participant Media & River Road Entertainment present ; a film by Robert Kenner ; directed by Robert Kenner ; produced by Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2008. Features: deleted scenes; Celebrity public service announcements: Child Nutrition Act, Ingredients, Alyssa Milano, John Salley, Anthony and Gia LaPaglia, Martin Sheen, Kelly Preston; segments from ABC News Nightline series "You are what you eat": Food with integrity, The amazing food detective, Snacktown smackdown; Stay active & eat healthy; Resources; Food, Inc. book (promo); theatrical trailer.
Summary:
Explores how large corporations and government agencies control agriculture and food processing, and how those practices affect human, environmental, and economic health. Features interviews with writers Eric Schlosser ("Fast Food Nation"), Michael Pollan ("The Omnivore's Dilemma") along with social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farms' Gary Hirschberg and Polyface Farms' Joe Salatin and Barbara Kowalcyk, who has devoted her life to passing Kevin s Law," after her son died from eating a hamburger that was tainted with E-coli.
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