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Q and A: Robert Kenner, director of Food, Inc.
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Robert Kenner's documentary Food, Inc. argues that deception is running rampant in the national food system. It's out on Friday.
Special to amNewYork
Some scary truths hide behind our most banal grocery store staples.
Robert Kenner’s documentary “Food, Inc.” reveals a comprehensive campaign of deception engaged in by the corporations that control the national food system, and points out the dangerous changes they have made to the ways our food is farmed and developed. amNewYork spoke to the filmmaker about the movie, which opens Friday.
What interested you in this subject?
On one level, we spend less on our food than any time in history. On the other hand, this low cost food comes to us at a high cost.
What’s the cost?
The whole [food producing] system has changed. The food itself is fundamentally different. Things look the same, but they’re different.
[For example] chicken looks the same, but they’re not grown on farms, they’re grown in factories.
Everything comes from huge factories, or the vast majority of our food does and it doesn’t have the same nutritional value…It’s kind of spooky how [the food companies] can try to keep us thinking it still comes from farms with white picket fences and red barns.
What are the risks if the food production business continues to function as it has?
We’re subsidizing unhealthy food that is going to bankrupt all of us because the health care system can’t take [all the health problems being created].
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