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...were inspired to make this film after reading Fast Food Nation. How were your expectations of the industry different from what you eventually learned? I had wanted to do a documentary on Fast Food Nation, but people said, Wasn't the Morgan Spurlock film, Super Size Me the documentary [version]? So it became important for me to make a film about how the whole supermarket has become industrialized like the fast-food system. On one level, we're spending less on food than at any time in history, but it's coming to us at a very high, unseen cost...
...Unfortunately there seems to be such a paralysis in government these days. I think Eric Schlosser's analogy about tobacco is a really important one. We were up against really powerful corporations, and ultimately they had great connections to government. But when we began to learn that nicotine really wasn't good for us, we were eventually able to put laws in practice that could tax and charge the real price for that product. I think as we start to understand these high, unseen costs, hopefully we'll start to put the real price on cheap food. We're paying...
Elizabeth Fedorchalk was tired of being fat. She had been trying to lose weight since elementary school, but diets never made a difference. She wasn't husky. She wasn't big-boned. By age 16, the 5-ft. 5-in., 291-lb. high school junior from Holts Summit, Mo., was undeniably obese. And each year, it was only getting worse...
Bellerive wouldn't go as far as to blame Haiti's élite for the more than 200,000 earthquake deaths. But those who doubt Haiti's ability to transform its government should note that Chile wasn't always an OECD candidate - it spent 17 years, from 1973 to 1990, under a brutal military dictatorship - and that Haitians are more than capable of emulating Chileans if given the chance...
...liquefaction by vibration in such powerful temblors. The last was the tsunami wreckage - and if early reports are true that it caused the most deaths, says Zapata, "that's something the Chileans are going to have to take a long, hard look at." (See why Chile's earthquake wasn't unexpected...