dinner
Dinner
& a Movie...you just need to bring the dinner!
Join us throughout the week to learn
more about our food system. We will cover a range of issues, from
genetically modified organisms in our food supply to thinking about
what we eat and our body image.
"Fast Food Nation"
Monday April 6th at 8pm
Billings CC Theater
Inspired by the incendiary bestseller that exposed the hidden facts
behind America's fast food industry comes a powerful drama that takes
an eye-opening journey into the dark heart of the All-American meal.
Richard Linklater's FAST FOOD NATION traces the birth of an everyday,
ordinary burger through a chain of riveting, interlocked human stories
- from a hopeful, young immigrant couple who cross the border to work
in a perilous meat-packing plant, to a teen clerk who dreams of life
beyond the counter; to the corporate marketing whiz who is shocked to
discover that his latest burger invention - "The Big One" - is
literally full of manure. As the film traverses from pristine barbeque
smoke labs to the volatile U.S.-Mexican border, it unveils a
provocative portrait of all the yearning, ambition, corruption and hope
that lies inside what America is biting into.
“Food & You: How’s the Relationship? Movie Clips with Health Promotions”
Tuesday April 7th at 1pm
Boulder Society Room
Sponsored by Health Promotion Services
Annie Cressey an Interim Health Educator in Health Promotion Services.
Her focus is assessing, developing, and coordinating awareness programs
on the intersections of eating disorders/disordered eating, body image,
nutrition and fitness. During this time she will lead a discussion
around your relationship with food. Does food have meaning in your
life? Why do you choose to eat certain foods? How does it affect your
life? Annie will use film clips to lead the discussion and as examples
around people’s feeling about food.
“Unnatural Selection”
Tuesday April 7th at 7:30pm
Billings CC Theater
Sponsored by the student of ENVS 195 “Land, Food, and Seeds”
Unnatural Selection takes us on a panoramic world tour of some of the
places that have been most directly impacted by aggressive corporate
promotion of genetically engineered agriculture. For those already
familiar with the basics of this issue, the journey illuminates the
vast international dimensions of the debate. For those new to genetic
engineering, it offers a profound and colorful introduction. It is a
work of compelling urgency and stunning beauty that should not be
missed by anyone who cares about food and the people who grow it.
“The Future of Food”
Tuesday April 7th at 2pm
Williams Room in the DC
The Future of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing
truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that
have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.
From the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada to the fields of Oaxaca,
Mexico, this film gives a voice to farmers whose lives and livelihoods
have been negatively impacted by this new technology. The health
implications, government policies and push towards globalization are
all part of the reason why many people are alarmed by the introduction
of genetically altered crops into our food supply. Shot on location in
the U.S., Canada and Mexico, The Future of Food examines the complex
web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as
huge multinational corporations seek to control the world's food
system. The film also explores alternatives to large-scale industrial
agriculture, placing organic and sustainable agriculture as real
solutions to the farm crisis today.
“King Corn”
Wednesday April 8th at 7pm
Wright Hall Room 114
Sponsored by the HWRLC Social Documentary Series
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn,
and the subsided crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn,
Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast,
move to the heartland to learn where their food comes. With the helf of
friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, nitrogen fertilizers
and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of Americas
most productive, most subsided grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when
they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they
find raises troubling questions about how we eat- and how we farm.
“Every Child. Every Day.”
Thursday April 9th at Noon
Boulder Society Room in the DC
Sponsored by the Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger
In November 2007, the Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger (VTCECH)
debuted a new documentary on hunger in Vermont and its myriad
solutions: Every Child. Every Day. On November 29th, the Main Street
Landing Performing Arts Center hosted the film's exciting premiere,
where over 200 community members and leaders from the business,
non-profit, and political sectors came together for the film's first
public showing. Debuting amid Thanksgiving and the winter holiday
season, Every Child. Every Day. poignantly reminds us of the
devastating effects of chronic hunger and malnutrition, featuring
anecdotes from real Vermonters. More importantly, it shows how the
comprehensive "safety net" of public health programs, nutrition
education, and emergency food services can put a stop to childhood
hunger in Vermont. Joanne Heidkamp from the VCTECH will show the movie
and lead short discussions after the film, as well as answer any
questions that people might have about the local non-profit and hunger
in Vermont.
ALSO, be alert for “Sound Bites” throughout the week in random classes and places on campus!
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