Food Film Screening & Discussion: “Food, Inc.” | SF

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2013 Greater Good Food Film Festival | SF

The Greater Good Food Film Festival features eight nights of documentary film and discussion that will address different food system related topics, ranging from the health of soil and bees to the role of policy from October 9-24, 2013.

Some films will be followed with speakers and discussions lead by experts in the field. Local food vendors will offer food at certain events as well.

Make sure to also check out the Greater Good Food Fair on Saturday, October 26, 2013 in Civic Center Plaza.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Food, Inc. | 2013 Greater Good Food Film Festival | SF

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.

Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg 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.

Post-Screening Speaker: Julie Cummins of CUESA, a “nonprofit corporation organized in 1994 to educate urban consumers about sustainable agriculture and to create links between urban dwellers and local farmers. [CUESA has] managed the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market since 1999.”

Julie oversees CUESA’s growing education department. In addition to program development and planning, she manages the Schoolyard to Market program, policy advocacy, seller scholarships, panel discussions, and other projects. She came to CUESA in 2005 with more than 10 years of experience leading education programs, most recently for Greenbelt Alliance. Julie holds a BS in Conservation and Resource Studies from UC Berkeley and is certified in permaculture design and as an Alameda County Master Composter. She is a member of the Oakland Food Policy Council. One of her goals is to learn to genuinely love every fruit and vegetable in the farmers market, and she only has a few left to go.

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