Telluride Film Festival's Sunday at the Palm: "Food Inc."

19 Mar Telluride Film Festival's Sunday at the Palm: "Food Inc."

[click “Play” to listen to Erika Gordon’s conversation with Susan]

“Eating can be one dangerous business. Don’t take another bite till you see Robert Kenner’s Food, Inc.,” wrote Peter Travers of Rolling Stone, “If the way to an audience’s heart is through its stomach, ‘Food, Inc.’ is a movie you’re going to love.”

The film being shown this Sunday, March 20, 4 p.m., as part of the Telluride Film Festival’s 2011 Sunday at the Palm series received a an average rating 8 on a scale of 10 on Rotten Tomatoes, pure poetry since this movie is all about food, the good, the bad, mostly rotten.

Robert Kenner’s documentary, “Food. Inc.” is a horror story of sorts. The director has constructed a wholesale condemnation of the American food industry, revealing the not-so-palatable inner workings of our nation’s food supply, including heartless disregard for animal welfare. With the blessings of government regulatory agencies who look aside or don’t look at all, a handful of large corporations are allowed to put their bottom line ahead of public health, feeding the masses mass-produced, chemically treated food. (Can anyone spell obesity?)

Here’s Kenner’s bottom line: the U.S. agricultural base has become a giant science experiment: chickens that mature to super-sized proportions at record speed, herbicide resistant seeds and vegetables that don’t go bad. Accompanying these supposed “benefits” are a hefty share of risks, including life-threatening E. coli, epidemic levels of diabetes and a nation plagued with obesity.

“Food Inc.” is FREE to the public.

To learn more, click the “play” button and listen to this interview with Telluride Film Festival’s Erika Gordon.