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The Final Inch Food, Inc.
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Plays in: Oscar Docs (p16) Plays with: A Film From My Parish – 6 Farms – (p25)
Director: Irene Taylor Brodsky a73 Producers: Irene Taylor Brodsky, Tom Grant a73 Cinematographer: Director: Robert Kenner a73 Executive Producers: William Pohlad, Robin Schorr, Jeff Skoll,
Jeffrey Streich a73 Editor: Bill Weber a73 Music/Composers: Courtney Von Drehle, Joe Janiga a73 Diane Weyermann a73 Producers: Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein a73 Cinematographer: Richard
Principal Cast: Dr. Ashfaq Bhat, Mikail Davenport, Munzareen Fatima, Michael Galway, Dr. David Pearce a73 Editor: Kim Roberts a73 Music/Composer: Mark Adler a73 Principal Cast: Gary
Heymann, Dr. Hamid Jafari, Martha Mason, Dr. Usha Ubale a73 thefinalinch.org Hirshberg, Barbara Kowalcyk, Michael Pollan, Joel Salatin, Eric Schlosser a73 robertkenner.com
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“The Rule of the Final Inch consists in this: Not to shirk this How much do we really know about the food we buy at our
critical work, not to postpone it…one’s purpose lies not in local supermarkets and serve to our families? Even if you think
completing things faster, but in the attainment of perfection.” — you’ve heard it all, the facts about our nation’s food industry
Alexander Solzhenitsyn will surprise you. The film exposes the mechanized underbelly
that the U.S. food industry has been hiding from the American
Nearly 50 years after a vaccine was developed in the United
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consumer. With the consent of our government’s regulatory
States, polio still finds refuge in some of the world’s most
agencies, USDA and FDA, we have a plethora of questionable
vulnerable places. This Oscar-nominated documentary follows
blessings and certain plights including insecticide-resistant
members of the largest non-military army in history into India
soybean seeds and new strains of e. coli.
on their mission to eradicate polio from the planet.
The handful of corporations that control our food supply often
The global strategy aimed at hundreds of millions of children
put profit ahead of everything, endangering the livelihood of
becomes intensely personal for the vaccinators working to save
the American farmer, and the wellbeing of workers, consumers,
them. For the world’s poorest, saying “no” to vaccinations is
and our environment. Featuring interviews with Eric Schlosser
sometimes their only political voice. And then there are
(Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma)
millions of homeless children across India who get the disease
along with forward thinking entrepreneurs, Food, Inc. reveals
because they cannot be found in time. The Final Inch explores
surprising truths about what we eat, how it’s produced, and
how the final days of any endeavor are always the most
where we as a nation are headed. [violence]
challenging, and is a profound testament to those working on
the front lines of public health. [subtitles] Sponsor: Ashland Food Co-op
Irene Taylor Brodsky Robert Kenner
Director’s Statement Director’s Statement
The Final Inch reminds us that public Eric Schlosser and I had been wanting to do
health, poverty and politics can converge a documentary version of his book, Fast
into a perfect storm of tragic consequence. Food Nation. And, for one reason or
How else can one explain the fact that another, it didn’t happen. By the time Food, Inc. started to come
children continue to die and become together, we realized that all food has become like fast food, and
crippled for life by polio more than 50 all food is being created in the same manner as fast food.
years after a vaccine for the disease has been discovered?
Most American consumers think that we are being protected.
And yet, we are so close. Twenty years ago, 20,000 people a day But that is not the case. And I think that’s been really quite
were getting polio. This year, fewer than 1,000 will. The harmful to the American consumer and to the American
compassionate and dedicated foot soldiers working the front worker. I hope people take away from this film that things can
lines of public health in this film are proof that eradicating this change in this country. It changed against the big tobacco
disease forever is humanly possible. Whether it is politically companies. We have to influence the government and readjust
possible, is up to the rest of us. these scales back into the interests of the consumer. We did it
before, and we can do it again.
Filmography: ER Diaries, Generation H, Hear and Now (2007 AIFF), Ishara, Managing
Your HMO, The Rural Studio, ’Til Death Do Us Part Filmography: Road to Memphis, Two Days in October, War Letters
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