Once Ethan Hawke Got Involved, Agribusiness Got Nervous
Fast Food Nation the movie has the food industry on their toes
Eric Schlosser’s award-winning and eye-opening book Fast Food Nation is premiering in movie version today at the Cannes Film Festival. Fast Food Nation examines how contaminated meat ends up in a fast food restaurant (the subtly titled “Mickey’s”), by tracing the meat back to the immigrant-staffed slaughterhouse from which it originated. Billed as an investigation into “ the dark side of the All-American meal”, this movie features Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, Avril Lavigne (really?), and Wilmer Valderrama.
The prospect of a widely seen movie that details the horrible impact of slaughterhouse conditions on workers, cows, and consumers has the food industry in a bit of a tizzy. So much so that they have created “Best Food Nation,” a website that celebrates “our safe, abundant, affordable food system.” The site gamely attempts to debunk the ideas that “fast food offers dead end jobs” and “packing plant workers are routinely injured”, but uh, the food industry has their work cut out for them refuting those claims.
Keep your eye out for Fast Food Nation to come to a movie theater near you.
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