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Geoff
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5/10/2009 7:01:39 p.m.
RE:Movie premiere of Food, Inc
Good cause count me in, I'll be there!
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steens
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26/09/2009 9:51:08 a.m.
Movie premiere of Food, Inc
Tauranga Slow Food presents the movie premiere of Food, Inc. At the Rialto Cinema, Tauranga on Wednesday 14th October at 8.30pm (movie duration: 94 minutes) Arrive at 8.00pm for a glass of wine and nibbles prior to movie Filmmaker Robert Kenner sets out to expose the dark, Orwellian underbelly of America's food industry - deliberately hidden from consumers with the consent of regulatory agencies. Controlled by corporation and profit, human health and the environment has been put in jeopardy: there's bigger-breasted chickens, perfect pork chops, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad. But we also have new strains of E. coli bacteria, widespread obesity and an increasing level of diabetes among adults.
Featuring interviews with experts like Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) along with social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals the surprising truth about what we eat, how it's produced and where the industry is going from here. It illustrates how complicated and compromised the once simple process of growing crops and raising livestock to feed ourselves and our families has become. But, it also reminds us that despite what appears to be at times a hopeless situation, each of us still has the ability to vote on this issue every day at breakfast, lunch and dinner. Tickets: $20 per person Purchase tickets at the Deli on Devonport, 22 Devonport Road, Tauranga or by direct credit to the Tauranga Slow Food account, Kiwibank, 38-90-06 0380594-00 (remember to clearly enter your name so that we know who the payment is from) and please email your contact details to taurangaslowfood@gmail.com so that we can send out tickets. Tickets strictly limited - no door sales - sales close by Saturday 10th October (if not sold our prior).
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