?A different title for this film could be Power, Corruption and Lies.? 

So said Eric Schlosser (above) ? noted investigative journalist and advocate, acclaimed author of Fast Food Nation, and one of the contributors to Robert Kenner?s sober yet eviscerating Food, Inc. ? during the Q&A after the standing ovation the film received following its world premiere at the AMC theatres Sunday afternoon. The screening came only a week after the film was completed. ?I?m looking forward to seeing the sound and the picture in the same place,? Kenner said before the film began. 

Kenner was initially inspired to pursue the film after reading Schlosser?s book, as well as Michael Pollan?s The Omnivore?s Dilemma. He admitted in the Q&A how he naively believed that gaining access to the central subjects of his film, namely the handful of multinational corporations who have monopolized food production in the United States, would be easy. Of course, that was before he came to understand, as many of us in the audience did while watching the film, just how consolidated in their power and connections to the U.S. government and its key regulatory agencies these corporations are.

Calling Kenner?s work ?a brave film,? Schlosser expressed his opinion that ?this film is not about food, but rather about changes in American society that are also being brought to other countries.? 

?And to the film industry,? Schlosser added, in reference to the power and control that one company is able to exert over an industry, not to mention a nation of consumers.

For your chance to count the staggering number of corporate executives and attorneys who formerly worked for food processing corporations and now hold key administrative positions within the very governmental bodies that are meant to regulate them, be sure to catch Food, Inc. when it screens Tuesday at 3:15 at AMC 10 or on Saturday September 13 at 3:00 in Varsity 7.