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Friday August 21, 2009; 7:00 pm
Friday August 21, 2009; 9:30 pm
Saturday August 22, 2009; 4:00 pm
Saturday August 22, 2009; 7:00 pm
Saturday August 22, 2009; 9:30 pm
Monday August 24, 2009; 7:00 pm
Monday August 24, 2009; 9:30 pm
Tuesday August 25, 2009; 7:00 pm
Tuesday August 25, 2009; 9:30 pm
Wednesday August 26, 2009; 4:00 pm
Wednesday August 26, 2009; 7:00 pm
Wednesday August 26, 2009; 9:30 pm
Thursday August 27, 2009; 7:00 pm
Thursday August 27, 2009; 9:30 pm

Directed by Robert Kenner

  The movie Food, Inc. 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 Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel 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.

  Join us for the Food Inc. screening on Sat, Aug 22 and enjoy a post-film panel discussion with esteemed community members speaking about how the film affects our daily lives.

More Information:
http://www.foodincmovie.com/

Details

COST:

$8*, $6* Students and Seniors

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: The State Theatre
WEBSITE: http://www.thestatetheatre.org/Events/viewevent.php?id=532