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Article: Down on the Factory Farm
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- Seven Days
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- July 15, 2009
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Down on the Factory Farm
A new documentary does for food what Sicko did for health care
If he were alive today, Henry Ford might be one of the few who could watch Food, Inc. - a documentary by Robert Kenner about the current state of the American farm and food industry - with a smile on his face. The father of the assembly line was expected to inherit his dad's Michigan farm, but he fled the fields to pioneer the techniques that eventually spawned what we now refer to as "agribusiness."
Will Food, Inc. help reverse what Ford wrought? Should it? Coproduced by Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser, the film features numerous interviews with him and media darling Michael Pollan, author of The ...