Movies You Should Watch
Food Inc.
This movie was produced and directed by filmmaker Robert Kenner and co-produced by Eric Schlosser, an investigative journalist. Their film shows how our nation's food supply is controlled by a handful of corporations that put the bottomline ahead of our health way too often Though our food might often seem to look better (bigger-breasted chickens, tomatoes that "don't go bad"), what we really have a nation that's overweight and under nourished with an epidemic level of diabetes among adults. We're just not eating enough real, whole food and this film exposes the issues in surprising and shocking ways.
Visit the film's website: http://www.foodincmovie.com/
Future of Food
The Future of Food, was first released in 2004. The film deals with the troubling changes happening in the America's food system then and still today — genetically engineered foods, patenting, and the corporatization of food— and presents terms the average person can easily understand. It empowers all of us to understand the consequences of our food choices on our future. Thankfully today, the corporate control of agriculture and the seed supply is meeting more and more resistance from the sustainable food movement that has risen up around the world. This film will continue to be relevant until we as consumers begin to truly understand and embrace what it means to buy local.
Visit the film's website: www.thefutureoffood.com
In"GREED"ieNts
Writer, director David Burton is also a registered nurse. In his film "inGREEDients", he interviews some of the leading researchers and the most respected scientists and healthcare professionals in the world to uncover the alarming connection between what you put in your mouth and some of the most disgusting, unpalatable and life-threatening ailments known today! David's film addresses the three diseases most directly connected with the consumption of hydrogenated oil - heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. Though afflictions are eventually deadly if one keeps consuming hydrogenated oils, with some simple changes in food choices and a littlebit of exercise, these diseases are extremely preventable.
Visit the film's website: www.ingreedientsmovie.com
Fat Head
Comedian (and former health writer) Tom Naughton replies to the blame-McDonald’s crowd by losing weight on a fat-laden fast-food diet while demonstrating that nearly everything we’ve been told about obesity and healthy eating is wrong. Along with some delicious parody of Super Size Me, Naughton serves up plenty of no-bologna facts that will stun most viewers, such as: The obesity “epidemic” has been wildly exaggerated by the CDC. People the government classifies as “overweight” have longer lifespans than people classified as “normal weight.” Having low cholesterol is unhealthy. Lowfat diets can lead to depression and type II diabetes. Saturated fat doesn’t cause heart disease — but sugars, starches and processed vegetable oils do.
King Corn
The Peabody-winning documentary King Corn follows college buddies Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis to Iowa, where they plant and tend one acre of America's most-processed crop. But when the young farmers set out to see where their corn will go, what they find raises troubling questions about what we subsidize, and how we eat. For the sequel Big River, Ian and Curt return to Iowa with a new mission: to investigate the environmental impact their acre of corn has had on the people and places downstream. In a journey that spans from the heartland to the Gulf of Mexico, they discover heartland cancer clusters, a Gulf of Mexico "Dead Zone," and agriculture's connection to climate change. (90 minutes / 27 minutes)