Films with: Schlosser, Eric

Fast food nation

If it's true that we are what we eat, then how do we even know who we are? Don Anderson is trying to balance his search for the truth with an apparent desire not to do anything that might hurt his career. Raul and Sylvia, having crossed the border illegally, take up dangerous, stomach-turning jobs at the meat-processing plant. Amber is a teenage burger-slinger who wants to both change the world and get out of town. These two desires--to fight the system and to win by its rules--are not necessarily incompatible, though they may seem contradictory. Everyone has something to say, but hard ethical choices are set down by the logic of 21st-century consumer capitalism.

DVD 5402

Food chain$ the revolution in America's fields /

"Food Chains reveals the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of large buyers of produce like fast food and supermarkets. ... The narrative of the film focuses on an intrepid and highly lauded group of tomato pickers from Southern Florida--the Coalition of Immokalee Workers or CIW--who are revolutionizing farm labor."--container.

DVD 10847

Food, Inc.

Lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing how our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profits ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Reveals surprising - and often shocking truths - about what we eat, how it's produced and who we have become as a nation.

DVD 7086