Food Chains

Let’s Eat! Food on Film

Showings

Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1 Sun, Mar 1, 2015 1:30 PM
Film Info
Rating:Not Rated
Runtime:83 min.
Year Released:2014
Production Country:USA
Language:English

Description

There is more interest in food these days than ever, yet there is very little interest in the hands that pick it. Farmworkers, the foundation of our fresh food industry, are routinely abused and robbed of wages. Food Chains reveals the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of large buyers of produce like fast food and supermarkets. Fast food is big, but supermarkets are bigger – earning $4 trillion globally, with tremendous power over the agricultural system and the farmers. The narrative of the film focuses on an intrepid and highly lauded group of tomato pickers from Southern Florida – the Coalition of Immokalee Workers– who are revolutionizing farm labor. Their story is one of hope and promise for the triumph of morality over corporate greed – to ensure a dignified life for farm workers and a more humane, transparent food chain.