This morning Good Morning America spent some time discussing the food industry and how Food, Inc. is exposing the truth about it.  Check out the segment from the show to the left (click on the photo to go to the video!)

I love the urgency that they opened the piece with and that before they even delved into the film they told people to go online to learn more (how very TakePart of them!). I hope the GMA piece inspires more people to see Food, Inc. in the theaters because the information it is dealing with is quite important. In fact it is so important that there is actually a 300 page book to accompany the film.
The book features 13 essays, many of them written just for Food, Inc. The authors include the best of the food writing bunch, including Anna Lappé, Marion Nestle, Joel Salatin, Food, Inc director Robert Kenner and Food, Inc stars Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser.

To whet your appetite ABC has put up an excerpt from the book, specifically an interview with Eric Schlosser. The below section really highlights why the film is necessary (and illustrates how the food problem goes beyond just what we eat):

“One of the more remarkable moments of my research occurred while I was visiting a home in the Midwest where a group of impoverished meatpacking workers lived. They were all illegal immigrants. And while I was talking with them, I learned that some of them had worked at a strawberry farm I’d visited for the Atlantic Monthly piece. That’s when I realized that this was a really important story, one that deserved a lot more of my time and attention. California has been exploiting migrant workers from Mexico for a hundred years. But that form of exploitation had, until recently, been limited to California and a handful of Southwestern states. Now it seemed to be spreading throughout the United States. Finding that illegal immigrants were being exploited in the heartland of America, in a little town that on the surface looked straight out of a Normal Rockwell postcard–well, to me, this was something new, a disturbing and important new trend.”

I really recommend you check it out the entire excerpt that ABC has up and then do yourself (and your body and your family) a favor and get a copy and read up.  Trust me, you’ll be glad you did.