Food, Inc - Movie Mixer

Join rogueApron, Georgia Organics, and Slow Food Atlanta in a very special screening of Food, Inc. If you haven't seen this film - you ought to. If you have, revisit it in good company - meet up with other food-conscious Atlantans.

Our friends at Five Seasons Brewery are providing the beer! Door prizes include rogueApron tshirts and gift certificates from Local Farmstand.

6:30pm > Grab a beer and make a friend

7:10pm > Film begins

“I gave up the thought of ‘reviewing’ the film and decided to exhort you: SEE IT. BRING YOUR KIDS IF YOU HAVE THEM. BRING SOMEONE ELSE’S IF YOU DON’T. The sheer scale of the movie is mind-blowing. It’s the documentary equivalent of The Matrix.” – David Edelstein, New York Magazine

“BRACING, COMPASSIONATE, WITTY AND COMPELLING.” – Time
 
“ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FILMS OF THE YEAR. A vital, visually stylish piece of filmmaking that is as informative as it is fascinating, infuriating and, at times, heartbreaking.” – San Francisco Examiner

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation'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 our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of e coli--the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farms' Gary Hirschberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising -- and often shocking truths -- about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.