Food Inc: A movie

Our immediate topic this week we will be discussing a movie I am volunteering to promote through The Surfrider Foundation, Kauai Hawaii. The movie is called "Food Inc". We will be reviewing the issues presented in this film each day, and if you are interested in becoming a nutritionist or attending one of many nutritionist schools, we feel this is a must see movie!
Overview:
In "Food, Inc"., filmmaker Robert Kenner, sheds light on America's food industry. The film works to expose the secrets the food industry have been hiding from our Nation's consumers with the help of many government agencies such as; The USDA and The FDA. Currently, our Countrie's food supply is controlled by a handful of huge companies that put profit ahead of consumer health to be more competitive and make a higher profit. By doing this, these corporations have threatened the livelihood of our own American farmers, the safety of their workers and our environment.
Our chickens may have bigger breasts, we may have created the perfect pork chop, invented herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, and even accomplished growing tomatoes that don't spoil, but in the process we have also created new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. America is riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults, and we ask why?

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