Green Options » Polyface Farms http://greenoptions.com/tag/polyface-farms Posts tagged 'Polyface Farms' Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:04:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Food, Inc. Documentary Movie Removes Shroud of Secrecy http://sustainablog.org/2009/06/11/food-inc-documentary-movie-removes-shroud-of-secrecy/ http://sustainablog.org/2009/06/11/food-inc-documentary-movie-removes-shroud-of-secrecy/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:04:15 +0000 Keith Rockmael http://sustainablog.org/2009/06/11/food-inc-documentary-movie-removes-shroud-of-secrecy/ For those in America who have yet to read The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Fast Food Nation or even The Jungle, the new docu pic Food, Inc. smoothly stirs the boiling pot of food production controversy while allowing those not familiar with the dark secrets of the food production industry to enjoy a film in bite size nuggets.

With Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser a co-producers and Omnivore’s Dilemma writer Michael Pollen one of the consultants (in addition to being on-screen participants) the film offers a solid, well presented structure that offers not only scary, gut wrenching even stomach turning scenes in meatpacking plants, chicken coops and but offers a silver lining into the future of food.

Producer/Director Robert Kenner weaves the film through the various food landscapes from the cramped chicken coops of Maryland to the aerial CAFO vistas to the open grasslands of Polyface Farms. Inside one of the chicken coops live chickens that wallow in their own filth and barely have room to move. Factory farm shots show downer cows being uplifted by forklifts to be transported to the slaughterhouse. The film makes a point of showing people how dangerous and unregulated our food system remains.

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