In this Academy Award nominated film, Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that’s been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. The 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. Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma), along with social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farms’ Gary Hirschberg 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.
POV: Food, Inc. airs Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 9pm.
