虛擬記憶: 毒食難肥（Food, Inc.）

2009年9月5日星期六

毒食難肥（Food, Inc.）

「Food, Inc.」，將現今食物生產工業的真實一面揭示出來。別以為毒菜、毒奶已經很恐怖，這記錄片絕對會令你對現今被壟斷的食物生產工業，有另一番的體會。

引用 Food, Inc. 的簡介：

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

Featuring 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 we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.

最近聽聞這套記錄片的港版 DVD 已經有售，才知道原來它是今年初香港國際電影節其中的一套參展電影，年中也有少數影院也有播放。相信因為這類題材不適合大眾，所以也沒有甚麼宣傳。