Re: film on TV this week: Food, Inc.

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"Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health . . . "Nonsense. They always put profit ahead of everything. Sherrill Subject: film on TV this week: Food, Inc.To: SymphonicHealth , Rife Date: Monday, April 19, 2010, 1:33 PM

Food, Inc. to air on PBS Wednesday, April 21st at 9pm (eastern)

Food, Inc., a provocative documentary film about the food industry in the United States, is being offered as an episode of the PBS series Point of View. In Food, Inc., filmmaker Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our 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. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

Featuring interviews with such experts as Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield's Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' 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.

View Trailer: http://www.foodincm ovie.com/ trailer-and- photos.php