Food-themed Film Series Goes Nationwide in April

By Julie Leibach
Reporter, 探花精选 magazine
Published April 01, 2010

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We are what we eat, right? Considering the nation鈥檚 seemingly insatiable appetite for junk food, the adage conjures some gastro-trocious images. I picture a mutant human-victual hybrid: Homo sapiens head, grisly hamburger meat body, lumbering on fried mozzarella stick legs, sweating corn syrup. In fact, new research published online a few days ago in suggests that regularly gorging on junk food can become an addictive habit in the same way that doing drugs can. And then there鈥檚 the toll that producing some of our favorite guilty pleasures can take on the planet.

But it tastes so good! You say. And I don鈥檛 know what food is best for the environment anyway! Well, get educated this month by going to a movie (you can exercise afterward).

 
Throughout April, a variety of will be screening in states across the country as part of Whole Foods Markets' nationwide campaign, 鈥.鈥 The idea is that 鈥渢he selected films will spark change through awareness, understanding and discussion of how today's food choices affect the environment, people's health and the future of food,鈥 according to a .
 
The flicks include the Academy Award庐 Nominee for Best Documentary Feature film, Food, Inc. (see 探花精选's review ), as well as No Impact Man (see our review ), among others ( local listings). Next week I鈥檒l review , whose April 7th Green Carpet premiere screening in New York is organized around several citywide food-themed workshops and demonstrations slated for the next two weeks (sign up ). 
 
In light of the recent Nature Neuroscience results about the mental power of chow, not to mention industrial agriculture鈥檚 environmental offenses, doesn鈥檛 now seem like a great time to retake our plates, before our fast food addictions take over our lives?