[Scpg] Food Fight

[Michael and Trish Hernandez]

Saturday March 21st, The Santa Ynez Film Group will screen FOOD  
FIGHT. Chris Taylor the director will give a Q/A immediately  
following the screening.  Film starts at 7:00 p.m. Doors open 6: 45
Contact Grace at  crazymiles@ earthlink.net

  FOOD FIGHT is a trenchant unnerving expose on the state of food in  
contemporary America. Director, Chris Taylor, weaves together several  
strands including the so called "California Cuisine" how it  
functioned-whether intentionally or not, as a political statement  
against the homogenization of the American food industry. Ground zero  
for this movement was the creation of the restaurant Chez Panisse in  
Berkeley, California in the late 1960's where owner, Alice Waters  
pioneered the notion of stocking the kitchen with wholly through  
local farms. Her intention was to explore the notion that delicious  
food, created with as little government intervention as possible, was  
just as radical, as a peace march.

Anchored by interviews with experts such as Michael Pollan, (author  
of Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food), Alice Waters, Marion  
Nestle, Dan Barber and more... Food FIght explores how we went from  
being a nation on the brink of starvation during the Great  
Depression, to a country with an epidemic obesity, pounding down junk  
food like there's no tomorrow-in just over a generation. When RIchard  
Nixon appointed Earl Butz as secretary of agriculture, Butz  
introduced legislation that favored large industrial farms over  
smaller family-owned ones providing huge incentives for those who  
produced what is essentially junk food. Taylor reveals the hard fact  
that fruits and vegetables are considered "specialty" crops by the  
U.S. government, and the growers of such receive virtually no  
underwriting. Food Fight will make you think hard about what you are  
putting in your mouth on a daily basis, and is likely to inspire  
action in its viewers. Perfect timing at a time when food costs are  
soaring. Don't miss it.