Food, Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It [Paperback]

Food, Inc.is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed byEntertainment Weeklyas more than a terrific movie -- it's an important movie. Aided by expert commentators such as Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, the film poses questions such as: Where has my food come from, and who has processed it? What are the giant agribusinesses and what stake do they have in maintaining the status quo of food production and consumption? How can I feed my family healthy foods affordably?

Expanding on the film's themes, the bookFood, Inc.will answer those questions through a series of challenging essays by leading experts and thinkers. This book will encourage those inspired by the film to learn more about the issues, and act to change the world.Karl Weberis a writer and editor based in New York. He collaborated with Muhammad Yunus on his bestsellerCreating a World Without Poverty, editedThe Best of I.F. Stone, and, with Andrew W. Savitz, coauthoredThe Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social, and Environmental Success -- And How You Can Too. He edited the previous bestsellingParticipant Media Guides, Food, Inc., andWaiting for Superman. David Denby,New Yorker
“Those of us who avoid junk food, with many sighs of relief and self-approval, may still be eating junk a good deal of the time. This enraging fact, which will not surprise anyone who has read such muckraking books as Eric Schlosser’s “Fast Food Nation” (2001) and Michael Pollan’s “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” (2006), is one of the discomforting meanings of the powerful new documentary “Food, Inc.,” an angry blast of disgust aimed at the American food industry.”

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