Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It
Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as “more than a terrific movie—it’s an important movie.” Aided by expert commentators such as Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, the film poses questions such as: Where has my food come from, and who has processed it? What are the giant agribusinesses and what stake do they have in maintaining the status quo of...
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A whole new kind of movie tie-in—the first in a series—goes behind the scenes and deeper into the issues and ideas raised by a provocative documentary on the contemporary way of eating
Preface viiPart I Food, Inc.: The Film1 Reforming Fast Food Nation: A Conversation Eric Schlosser 3Another Take Food Safety Consequences of Factory Farms. Food & Water Watch 192 Exploring the Corporate Powers Behind the Way We Eat: The Making of Food, Inc. Robert Kenner 27Another Take Food Sovereignty for U.S. Consumers. Food & Water Watch 41Part II Inside the Food Wars3 Organics-Healthy Food, and So Much More Gary Hirshberg 47Another Take The Dirty Six: The Worst Animal Practices in Agribusiness. Humane Society of the United States 614 Food, Science, and the Challenge of World Hunger-Who Will Control the Future? Peter Pringle 65Another Take Hazards of Genetically Engineered Foods and Crops: Why We Need A Global Moratorium. Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association 795 The Ethanol Scam: Burning Food to Make Motor Fuel Robert Bryce 91Another Take Exposure to Pesticides: A Fact Sheet. Organic Consumers Association 1036 The Climate Crisis at the End of Our Fork Anna Lappe 105Another Take Global Warming and Your Food. Cool Foods Campaign 1197 Cheap Food: Workers Pay the Price Arturo Rodriguez Alexa Delwiche Sheheryar Kaoosji 123Another Take Fields of Poison: California Farmworkers and Pesticides. Pesticide Action Network North America 1438 The Financial Crisis and World Hunger Muhammad Yunus 149Another Take The Scope of the World Food Crisis. FoodFirst Information and Action Network 161Part III What You Can do About it9 Why Bother? Michael Pollan 169Another Take Ten Steps to Starting a Community Garden. American Community Gardening Association 17910 Declare Your Independence Joel Salatin183Another Take Questions for a Farmer Sustainable Table 19711 Eating Made Simple Marion Nestle 209Another Take World Hunger-Your Actions Matter. Sherri White Nelson Heifer International 21912 Improving Kids' Nutrition: An Action Tool Kit for Parents and Citizens Center for Science in the Public Interest 227Another Take Childhood Obesity: The Challenge. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 25913 Produce to the People: A Prescription for Health Preston Maring 263To Learn More-Books, Websites, and Organizations Offering Further Insight into America's Food System and Its Future 275Notes 291Index 309
\ From the PublisherDavid Denby, New Yorker\ “Those of us who avoid junk food, with many sighs of relief and self-approval, may still be eating junk a good deal of the time. This enraging fact, which will not surprise anyone who has read such muckraking books as Eric Schlosser’s “Fast Food Nation” (2001) and Michael Pollan’s “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” (2006), is one of the discomforting meanings of the powerful new documentary “Food, Inc.,” an angry blast of disgust aimed at the American food industry.”\ The American Conservative\ “If you care about what you’re eating, you should see the new documentary Food Inc.”\ Takepart.com\ “Most of you have probably heard about Food, Inc., the movie, but did you also know there’s a companion book to the film? The book explores the challenges raised by the movie in fascinating depth through 13 essays, most of them written especially for this book, and many by experts featured in the film. Highlights include chapters by Michael Pollan (Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food), Anna Lappe (Hope’s Edge and Grub), Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation and film co-producer), Robert Kenner (film director), and a chapter on asking the right questions from Sustainable Table! The book is so popular it’s already in its fourth printing.”\ \ \
