Magnolia puts ‘Food’ on the table for 2009

I didn’t bother seeing Robert Kenner’s expose at TIFF because by reading the synopsis I felt it was a doc film more concerned with food safety and the effects of a Chicken McNugget instead of getting to the fundamental moral questions behind our desire to make non-human beings suffer, but the word on the street was: this was among the most buzzed about doc titles at the fest. And while I’ll probably see the picture and think it doesn’t go far enough, I’ll actually have a chance to see the docu via the folks at Magnolia. Variety reports that the distributor has once again landed another eye-opening documentary film from social cause friendly production house Participant Media. Food, Inc. would roll-out sometime in mid 09′.

Featuring Eric Schlosser — the author behind Fast Food Nation which Linklater made into a numb film and Michael Pollan (“The Omnivore’s Dilemma”) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farms’ Gary Hirschberg and Polyface Farms’ Joe Salatin, FOOD, INC. reveals surprising — and often shocking truths — about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.