Food, Inc. Supplementary Materials

Here is a Handout I created for Food, Inc. to help you organize your thoughts about it.  I will bring hard copies of this handout to class tomorrow, but you might want to start thinking about the questions tonight.

Here is a link that discusses the "pink slime" that we saw today in the film, which is the food industry's response to contaminated meat.  What do you think about this "solution"?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/what-pink-slime-tells-us-about-industrial-food-safety/2012/04/09/gIQAWs7M6S_blog.html

While Kevin's Law never passed, President Obama signed a Food Safety Modernization Act in 2011, and here is more information about that law which is focused on prevention of food contamination:

http://www.foodsafety.gov/news/fsma.html

And, finally, here is a link to the food safety organization founded by Kevin's mother, Barbara Kowalcyk:

http://www.foodborneillness.org/who-we-are.html