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International Box Office Hit Food, Inc.

International Box Office Hit Food, Inc. Served Up To Cinema Patrons This October

From the distributor who brought you Young at Heart and Topp Twins: Untouchable Girl (New Zealand’s biggest documentary ever at $1.8 million), comes the latest tasty treat in documentary viewing FOOD, INC. Rialto Distribution is delighted to serve up FOOD, INC. to New Zealand cinemas this October, after becoming a recent box-office hit in the states, impressing audiences and critics alike.

Filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on the food industry, exposing some of the dark underbelly hidden from consumers with the consent of regulatory agencies. Controlled by corporation and profit, human health and the environment is put in jeopardy. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli, widespread obesity and an increasing level of diabetes among adults.

Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, FOOD, INC. reveals surprising – and often shocking truth – about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become and where we are going from here.

Rialto Distribution CEO Kelly Rogers comments, “I am honoured to bring this important film to New Zealand, which sheds a light on the food industry which is of such vital interest to many New Zealanders”

FOOD, INC. is in cinemas nationwide from October 22nd.

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