Food Inc
Food Inc
Tuesday 23 March 2010
Following the screening of Age of Stupid last November, The Brewhouse and the Taunton Transition Town group team up again to bring you Food Inc, a look under the rather disturbing lid of the American food industry to expose the highly mechanized underbelly of a system that puts profits before consumer health.
Directed by Robert Kenner, it features 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 the US diet is really like, how it's produced and what the future might hold.
Think it doesn't happen over here too? Join in the post-film panel discussion to share your own views on how we feed ourselves now in the UK, and what we need to do to make our food supplies both sustainable and ethical into the future. Find out more about food co-ops, 'People's Supermarkets', community supported agriculture schemes and more.
Our local guest panelists will include Ian Tremain, Nuffield Farming Scholar; Tom Nielson, gardener, environmental designer and permaculturist; and Beth French, consumer representative on the Board of Taunton's Farmers Market.
Start time: 7.30pm.
£5. All profits go to help the Brewhouse achieve its 10:10 pledge.
