Next week the documentary, “Food Inc.” will show at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at Waimea Theater. The price is $5 and includes a free bag of GMO free popcorn. “Food, Inc.” is transforming the American view on industrial
Next week the documentary, “Food Inc.” will show at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at Waimea Theater. The price is $5 and includes a free bag of GMO free popcorn.
“Food, Inc.” is transforming the American view on industrial food production just as “An Inconvenient Truth” brought global warming to the fore. Filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on America’s food industry revealing how complicated and compromised growing crops and raising livestock has become. Kenner exposes the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of the government’s regulatory agencies, the movie Website states.
“Kaua‘i theaters weren’t going to show it on their own,” said Mi-Key Boudreaux of GMO Free Kaua‘i. “People still think that food is coming from a family farm. People deserve to know where their food is coming from.”
The film includes interviews with Eric Schlosser (“Fast Food Nation”), Michael Pollan (“The Omnivore’s Dilemma”) and social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farms’ Gary Hirschberg and Polyface Farms’ Joe Salatin.
“Just two generations ago people were close to a majority of their food sources,” said Andrea Brower of Malama Kaua‘i in a press release. “Today few people know what is in their food and even fewer people understand the economic, political, social and environmental ramifications of what they eat.”
Judy Dalton of the Sierra Club added that “the food we have come to think of as cheap is actually quite costly. Petroleum runs every stage of the modern agricultural system, from driving tractors to transporting cows to fertilizing fields.”
The film discloses how most of America’s food supply is controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health.
“If we are concerned about health care, we need to take a good look at what’s on our plate,” said Diana LaBedz with Surfrider Foundation. “People’s health and the health of our planet are both in sad shape. We are not helpless to make corrections to our behavior.”
“Food Inc.” was brought to Kaua‘i through the efforts of Surfrider Foundation, Apollo Kaua‘i, the Vegetarian Society, 1,000 Friends, Sierra Club, GMO Free Kaua‘i and Malama Kaua’i.
