http://tiff08.ca/filmsandschedules/films/foodinc

You are what you eat. It is a simple expression that bears scary implications as you watch Food, Inc. Director Robert Kenner draws upon the searing reportage of authors Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) to explore how modern developments in food production pose grave risks to our health and environment. These writers aren't radicals or even vegetarians (Schlosser admits that his favourite meal is a hamburger and fries), but they are crusaders when it comes to exposing problems and naming offenders. Food, Inc. makes their critiques vivid by taking us into the lives of people who are fighting back. The documentary never resorts to stunts to make its point – just solid journalism, including hidden cameras that reveal unseemly practices. Food, Inc. cogently explains how unfettered corporations exploited laws and subsidies to create shocking monopolies. In one example, we learn how the food conglomerate Monsanto expanded its control over soybeans from two per cent of the American market to ninety per cent in the last dozen years. Monsanto has the legal muscle of a Supreme Court decision, enabling them to litigate aggressively against small farmers. The decision was written by Justice Clarence Thomas, who happens to be a former Monsanto lawyer.

Saw some references to this being shown on Cable TV on the USA channel on September 13, 2008. Don't have cable. Can anyone
confirm that? Thank you.

There was a reference to Food, Inc. in the Globe and Mail: "You should be angry about your food":

As they got ready to travel to the Toronto film fest this week, the makers of the U.S. documentary Food, Inc. were experiencing a grim sense of déjà vu.

The recent listeriosis deaths in this country linked to tainted packaged meats, followed by findings of salmonella in various cheeses and more listeria found on sliced mushrooms, are precisely the kinds of food-safety crises that prompted director Robert Kenner and producer Eric Schlosser to investigate North America's big-business approach to food.

While they do not take pride in saying "I told you so," they do think we should all know better.

"When your agriculture minister puts out statements that Canada has the best food-safety system in the world - that's exactly what Americans say after any major outbreak here," Schlosser says from his home in Monterey, Calif. "It's just boilerplate rhetoric. Canada, like the U.S., needs a full public debate on food safety. And an overhaul of its system."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080906.TIFFMEAT06//TPStory/RealEstate

And of course, we have "A Dog's Breakfast" from last year. Put together by Yap Films (Toronto), it preached to the Itchmovian choir but summed things up for mainstream pet food buyers.

http://redstarcafe.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/a-dogs-breakfast/

Missed "Food, Inc., but did see a program about Monsanto's Posilac, the recombinant bovine growth hormone (called rBGH) which increases milk production.

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3Cat,

The film is "The Corporation".  The DVD is available at Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007DBJM8/sundancchannelin

Among many other things, it discusses the Monsanto Posilac story and the reporters who investigated it, tried to report it, and were fired.

It's available on UTUBE in parts.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Corporation+Psycopath&search_type=&aq=-1&oq=

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