For those of you a little short on cash who don’t want to miss out on the summer movie season, look no further.
You can enjoy a free showing of Food, Inc. in Berkeley next week.
The documentary explores food issues in America, and while it seems pretty likely to make you depressed/paranoid about all your past and future food choices, we’re still not ones to turn down a free screening.
The screening will take place at the Elmwood 6 Theatre at 7:30 on July 15, and similar ones are taking place throughout the nation.
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Food, Inc. [Chipotle]
Hungry for Change [Food, Inc.]
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Posted by
Alex Bigman on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 02:06 pm
Berkeley has an image to maintain. We like our people skinny (no chubby tortured-artists, pudgy street-urchins please), our businesses indie, and our bathrooms … plentiful.
In support of this image, back in ‘99 the Berkeley City Council passed an ordinance barring carry-out and quick-service restaurants from upper University Avenue. However, while image maintenance takes precedence when times are good, priorities shift when the economy goes sour. Hence, the city council decided yesterday to lift the ban on quick-service joints. read more »
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Last we checked, commercial fast food chains, especially ones offering food with copious amounts of grease and harrowing nutritional facts, not to mention styrofoam takeout boxes kind of defy Berkeley’s tradition of supporting small businesses, diversity, environmentally sustainable practices and somewhat healthy, kind of organic food (it is a college town after all). read more »
Most Berkeleyans know Alice Waters pioneered “California cuisine” through Chez Panisse, but her championing of healthy foods for school-age children is no less a historical achievement: Observe Berkeley’s public schools, where food is made using many ingredients grown locally.
But rising food costs have made it increasingly harder for schools to serve better quality food than pizzas that rate 5 or more napkins on the grease scale. read more »
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