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How we eat: movies such as Food Inc. are painting the food industry in a poor light. Who is telling the other side of the story?

Publication: Grocery Headquarters
Publication Date: 01-OCT-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: How we eat: movies such as Food Inc. are painting the food industry in a poor light. Who is telling the other side of the story?(FUTURE FORCES)

Article Excerpt
SOMEWHERE IN A NEARBY THEATER, A MOVIE PURPORTING TO BE A NEW FOOD DOCUMENTARY IS PLAYING TO RAVE REVIEWS. The central theme of Food Inc. is that today's supermarket food is becoming much more dangerous. And while very little of this film focuses on food retailing, the message is still clear. The modern American supermarket, with its assortment of 47,000-plus products, supports huge multi-national corporations with their enormous assembly lines where animals, workers and the environment are all being abused. The movie claims that our industry does not want shoppers to know the truth about what is sold in grocery stores and that somehow our boneless meats, year-round produce and multi-national corporations are providing dangerous and unhealthy food to society....

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