Food, Inc.

If you want to know how to help save the planet, see this movie! I saw Food, Inc. last night at the Nuart Theater and it was astonishing and provocative. I left feeling both horrified and empowered. Believe me, a trip to the grocery store today was an alternate experience as I consciously waved past the copious counters and shelves of meat and processed food to find the few organic, non-hormone filled, healthy home-grown choices.

Now, I am not necessarily primed for this kind of consciousness. I grew up eating meat and love it. My expanding hips speak to my love of all that is sweet. However, the recent rash of media from books to movies has imbued me with a sense of outrage and responsibility for the damage we are doing to ourselves, to animals, to each other and to the planet. If you are interested in a glimpse of the truth, if you like to pull back the curtain and peak at the mechanisms that run our world then this movie is for you. But I warn you--it is not for the faint of heart and it will make you courageous.