Summary
Directed by Robert Kenner, the movie showcases extensive interviews from authors Michael Pollah (An Omnivore's Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), a co-producer who contends citizen activism can make a difference-just as it did after the uproar about Upton Sinclair's revelations in The Jungle a century agoor, more recently, in the changes that were forced on the tobacco industry. (Schlosser will also speak Friday night at the film's local debut.)
They include Barbara Kowalcyk, a food safety advocate whose 2-and-a-half year-old son, Kevin, died 12 days after he contracted an E. coli infection from eating contaminated meat. The FDA had a regulation giving it the authority to shut down plants repeatedly guilty of producing food with such contaminations, but it was overturned in court. Kowalcyk and her mother are shown meeting members of Congress seeking approval of "Kevin's Law," which would give the agency back an authority one would think it already had, but the proposal has still not become law. Kowalcyk is emphatic about not wanting a "pity party"- she wants someone to do something before others die.See the full content of this document
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Appetite for Change
Appetite for Change
New documentary shows flaws in mass food industry chain of fools.Food, Inc., a chilling new documentary about the ways in which we are conditioned to sustain our...See the full content of this document
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