UPDATED: Wanna see Food, Inc.?

Update: We've decided to go on Sunday at 3:30 instead of tonight. Meet in the E Street lobby at 3:15.

At last weekend's open farm, Jenny & I discovered a mutual interest in seeing Food, Inc., and we thought other SHF customers might also enjoy going as a group. If you'd like to see this documentary about the food industry with us and possibly discuss it afterward, we're going to catch it at E Street this Saturday evening (August 8), most likely the 5:40 showing unless a different time is better for others.

Email me (gretchen dot lehman at gmail dot com) if you're interested. If you've already seen it, feel free to share your thoughts in the comments!

If you haven't heard of Food, Inc., here's what Ann Hornaday at the Washington Post wrote about it:
In the muckraking tradition of Upton Sinclair and the slick documentary stylings of "An Inconvenient Truth," Robert Kenner's "Food, Inc." seeks to lift the curtain on the cynical and often sickening workings of the modern industrial food system. This absorbing film looks terrific and does a superb job of making its case that our current food ways are drastically out of whack. The trick will be getting "Food, Inc.'s" message beyond its natural constituency of the already-converted to the millions of shoppers whose choices in the marketplace represent a tsunami of untapped power.

Starting with the chicken and beef industries, the filmmakers trace how fast-food culture created the corporate concentration of agricultural production and the disappearance of the traditional family farm. With damning hidden-camera footage and interviews with such pioneering journalists as Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan, "Food, Inc." deftly demonstrates how issues such as illegal immigration, public health and intellectual property law intersect at the largely hidden nexus of Big Meat. Most heartbreaking are personal stories of loss, including a mother's crusade for tighter food regulation after her toddler son died of E. coli poisoning and Midwestern farmers being sued by Monsanto for engaging in the time-honored practice of saving and cleaning seeds. See "Food, Inc." after dinner, but see it.

Also, some links:
Official site
Reviews at Rotten Tomatoes