Food, Inc.: ready for more inconvenient truth?!

Sincere thanks to Steven Salsberg, a NYC-based sustainability-conscious entrepreneur and influential change-agent, for bringing to my attention the New York City premiere of a very important movie, Food, Inc that took place last week at the Times Center in Manhattan and was followed by a panel discussion featuring Eric Schlosser, one of the movie's producers, and author of Fast Food Nation and Marcel Van Ooyen, Executive Director of the Council on the Environment of NYC.

Fast Food Nation was the first book on my first class' syllabus in my graduate school. I was a fresh-comer to New York and I eager to learn about the famous American capitalism and corporations. I read every single page of that book, got the message about America's fast food industry and never had a hamburger again. I think this is when I became much more conscious about the food I ate.

This is also why I think Food, Inc. is an important movie. Corporations have no choice but to listen to consumers' demand and preferences. We, the consumers, can make the food industry change and become what we want it to be. Until now, we might have been unaware or clueless. Now, with books such as Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, M. Pollan' The Omnivore’s Dilemma and movie such as Food, Inc. there is really no other excuse left but our indifference.

Starting June 12, the film will be screened publicly at Film Forum. If you want to see this movie in a company of like-minded people, join members of the New York Corporate Social Responsibility Meetup on Saturday, June 13 for a fun food-themed outing.