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HOW MUCH DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE FOODS WE BUY AT THE SUPERMARKET?
By Holly | June 28, 2009
This may be right in line with our Paleo Challenge! Some of you may have heard of this movie, which premiered June 12th, called FOOD, INC.
This is a disturbing portrait of how the food we eat in America has become deceptively prefabricated. Word has it that this documentary by Robert Kenner is raw and graphic, but I think we will find it to be brilliantly eye-opening and in line with our newfound eating habits. It discusses and connects the dots of how everything we’ve done in modern agriculture is to grow it faster, fatter, bigger and cheaper. AND how so much of our “food” comes from rearrangements of CORN.
“Food, Inc. shows how the use of high-fructose corn syrup in almost every supermarket product is part of the same system that masses chickens in concentration-camp coops, where they’re bred for their oversize, flavorless white meat” (Owen Gleiberman)
Watch the movie trailer by clicking on the link below.
http://www.foodincmovie.com/
You can see this movie now at the following theaters:
Brookline, MA: Coolidge Corner Theatre
Waltham, MA: Embassy Cinema
Cambridge, MA: Kendall Square Cinema
North Falmouth, MA: Nickelodeon Cinema 5 (beginning 7/5)
Dennis, MA: Cape Cinema (beginning 8/7)
Date night anyone?
Topics: Cynergy Central, Nutrition | 14 Comments »
June 28th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Just finished reading “Omnivore’s Dilemma” (which I borrowed from Keith and Cindy no less) and it speaks to these same topics. I highly recommend reading that as well. Well written and highly informative.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:08 am
I hear that the movie is basically based off of that book.
Anyone want to go see it?
June 29th, 2009 at 7:01 am
Great stuff Holly! I’d love to see this film.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:16 am
I’d like to see the film. I think it’s time for me to be “scared straight”.
June 29th, 2009 at 8:43 am
I’d go…..
June 29th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Kendall Square in Cambridge…then Fire & Ice…..
June 29th, 2009 at 9:15 am
I like your style keith, always thinking outside the box!
June 29th, 2009 at 10:36 am
I’ll go but someone will have to hold my hand…I’m scared…
June 29th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Kendall Square is showing it on Wed and Thurs this week at 4:30, 7:10 or 9:30.
Not playing there after that.
Anyone up for a mid week movie and carpool in?
June 29th, 2009 at 11:39 am
I’m in! I smell a group guerilla burpee in Kendall Square…
June 29th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Looks like I could swing either night! I’m scared too Lindsey.
June 29th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
You guys should have read that book… YIKES
June 30th, 2009 at 1:36 am
i am in…when are we going?
June 30th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Let’s do it! Anyone up for tomorrow night?