The new film "Food Inc." is a shocking look at the health, human rights and environmental nightmare that lands on our plate each meal.
But it's also a larger story about the people that have gotten in the way of the stampeding corporate herd - like farmer Joel Salatin (also profiled in Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma), who has bravely bucked the trend to go corporate.
There's also Barbara Kowalcyk, who becomes a tireless food-safety advocate after her 2 1/2-year-old son Kevin died from eating an E. coli-tainted hamburger.
There are also the farmers who appear with their faces blacked out on screen for fear of Monsanto, or the communities ravaged by Type 2 diabetes,
or the undocumented workers at processing plants who are recruited from their NAFTA-screwed homelands, illegally brought over the border to work dangerous jobs for peanuts
humiliatingly sacrificed in immigration raids that
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