In my last post, I attempted both to recommend Food Inc., and to criticize what I saw as the overly facile closing message (“vote with your fork”). There was more to the event, here at the American Academy in Rome, and there is a positive alternative to the dark suggestion of the film that Monsanto [...]
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braised pork & grass-roots
Posted in Dairy, Grain, Industry, Meat, Philosophical, Shopping, Trends, tagged agricoltura biologica, agricultural biodiversity, American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion food, Biola, eating locally, Food Inc. film, Lo Spicchio, local eating, local food, locavore, Rome locavore, roving locavore on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Food Inc.: impressions
Posted in Industry, Shopping, Trends, tagged Amy Campion, Food Inc. film, industrial agriculture, roving locavore, sustainable agriculture on November 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Images are powerful—especially moving ones. I’ve done so much reading about the industrial food system, about big organics, about sustainable agriculture. None of the content of Food Inc., which I saw yesterday at the American Academy screening, came as a surprise to me, but it still made a powerful impression because of the combination of [...]




