For many Americans, the standard meal is cheap, tasty, and fast. Many people go out to eat (fast food or sit down), order take-out, or grab something from the freezer. In Food, Inc. filmmaker Robert Kenner examines the costs of putting convenience and value over nutrition and environmental impact.
Food Inc. It’s the movie that has gotten people to stop eating certain foods and to start eating healthier. Some people simply gawk and gasp at how unhealthy the food processing world is and continue to live their lives, but for others, it is a life changing experience. Food, Inc. reveals surprising , and shocking, truths about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here. Food, Inc. lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry and exposes the highly mechanized process that has been hidden from the average American consumer. Who is allowing this secret to be hidden from the typical consumer? Well, it is done with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Appalling huh?
If you have not seen it already, Food Inc.is definitely a documentary that you want to look into.
What also is available is Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It. This book was created to be a companion to the movie, and it does an amazing job at taking the movie one step further. Through a series of challenging essays by leading experts and thinkers, this book will continue to exploit the food industry and to encourage people to change the world by changing how they support the food industry. It consists of 25 essays on topics ranging from biofuels, to agribusiness, to nutrition, to so-called “frankenfoods,” to pesticides and hormones, and global hunger. All of the essays are written by experts. One author included in the book is Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation (2006)!
If you have already seen the movie and you would like to learn more, I would highly suggest looking into ordering this companion book to Food Inc.
