| Food, Inc. Nominated for Academy Award |
| Monday, 08 February 2010 17:51 | |||
 Los Angeles, California, February 2010 – Food, Inc., a documentary directed by Emmy Award winning filmmaker Robert Kenner, has been nominated for an Academy Award. The Awards will be presented on March 7 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.
Food, Inc. looks at large-scale U.S. agricultural food production, and reports that the meat and vegetables domestically produced have hidden costs, are unhealthy and environmentally-harmful. The film is narrated by Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, two long-time critics of the industrial production of food. The film generated extensive controversy and was openly criticized by large American corporations engaged in industrial food production. Among the movie’s statements are claims that domestic production of chicken, beef and pork is essentially inhumane and economically and environmentally unsustainable. It also reports that the production of grains and vegetables, especially corn and soybeans, is also unsustainable from an environmental and economic standpoint at the industrial level. The film concludes by focusing on the clout of the country’s major food companies, its purchasing of cheap but contaminated food, heavy use of petroleum-based chemicals and dyes, and the promotion of unhealthy food consumption habits. Pollan was brought in as a consultant on the film and appears in it. Schlosser was the co-producer and also appears in the film, and Participant Media (which also produced Al Gore's 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth) was the production company. Director Kenner claims that he spent large amounts of his budget on legal fees to try to protect himself against lawsuits from industrial food producers, pesticide and fertilizer manufacturers, and other companies criticized in the film, which was three years in the making. SOURCE: Wikipedia; Food, Inc. (Visual courtesy Princeton.Libary.NJ.com)
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