Food, Inc. opens tomorrow in select theatres

June 18, 2:40 PMSan Diego Parenting ExaminerSondra Santos LaBrie

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Food, Inc.

Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco are the first three cities to be able to share Food, Inc. with local movie-goers. Tomorrow, at Landmark's Hillcrest Cinema, San Diegans will be able to see it for the first time.

Filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry with this new documentary, 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. 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, insecticide-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.

Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farms' Gary Hirschberg and Polyface Farms' Joe 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.