June 18, 2009 at 3:42 pm by Debbie Michaud
SMOKE ’EM IF YOU GOT ’EM: Businessmen in Food, Inc.
Got beef with Robert Kenner’s new film Food, Inc.? Maybe you just have questions or comments about the “harrowing documentary that serves up a kind of sampler’s platter of the recent culinary exposé trend,” according to CL film critic Curt Holman. Well, you’ll get your chance to ask the man behind the movie tomorrow at 1 p.m. via a live Twitter chat. Here’s how it works:
At 10am PST this Friday (June 19th) login to twitter and put #foodinc in the search bar and hit enter. You are now following the conversation! If you have a question, be sure to include the #foodinc tag. This way the question will stay on this thread. We hope for a large turnout so please be patient while we try to answer as many questions as possible.
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June 17, 2009 at 9:00 am by Curt Holman
SMOKE ’EM IF YOU GOT ’EM: Businessmen in Food, Inc.
The harrowing documentary Food, Inc. serves up a kind of sampler’s platter of the recent culinary exposé trend. Like Super Size Me, it touches on the physiological effects of a fast food diet and further examines the assembly line approach to restaurant service. Recapping the themes of King Corn, Food, Inc. reveals how agricultural policies enable farming practices that put corn in seemingly every item at the grocery store, including cheese, batteries and diapers. It even goes to the source of Richard Linklater’s dramatization of Fast Food Nation to explore the industrial mistreatment of cattle and cattle workers alike.
The tours of sprawling slaughterhouses and dark chicken houses can put you off your feed, but Food, Inc. leaves generous helpings of anger and despair on your plate as well. The documentary cites examples of massive, secretive corporations suing small competitors into oblivion and making indentured servants out of employees in once-prized professions. In its scope, effectiveness and unmistakable passion, it’s the must-see documentary of the bunch, if you can take the heat.
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