Food Inc. showing at the QFT
Posted: 24 February '10 by Niall
FOOD, Inc. showing at the QFT
How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families?
The provenance of our food is something that both Kelly and I feel strongly about – watching Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Hugh’s Chicken Run and Jamie Oliver’s Jamie Saves Our Bacon really brought the message home: we need to care more about the food that we buy.
In Food, Inc., film-maker Robert Kenner looks at America’s food industry and reveals a highly mechanized process that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of government agencies, where the U.S. food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and the environment. The supermarket shelves are now packed with bigger-breasted chickens, fruit and vegetables that are available all-year-round, and tomatoes that won’t go bad – but with that America has also seen new strains of E. coli emerge, obesity becoming widespread through their population, particularly among children, and diabetes among adults increasing to epidemic proportions.
It couldn’t happen here… could it?
Dates
You can see Food, Inc. at the QFT on the following dates:
- Friday 26 February – 18:45
- Saturday 27 February – 18:45
- Sunday 28 February – 18:00
- Monday 1 March – 18:45
- Tuesday 2 March – 18:45
- Wednesday 3 March – 18:45
- Thursday 4 March – 18:45
Other information
You can find out more about FOOD, Inc. at the official website.
Queens University Film Theatre
20 University Square
Belfast
BT7 1PA
T: 028 9097 1097
W: www.queensfilmtheatre.com
You can also find the Queen’s Film Theatre of Google Maps.
Categories: Food in the Flicks
