Food, Inc. director Robert Kenne spoke to CUESA recently about what he learned while making a hard-hitting film about the increasing corporate control of America’s food system.
CUESA: What do you think about the term “conventional agriculture”? Does it reinforce the idea that when people are not buying sustainably produced food, they’re doing what’s "normal"?
Robert Kenner: If you call chemical-laden agriculture conventional, yes. But it’s important to realize that’s only been in existence for 40-50 years. For ten thousand years “conventional” was the opposite of what it is now. The world’s food has been fundamentally transformed in a way that these agribusinesses want to keep you from seeing. And that was the most shocking thing for me in making Food, Inc.Read more in the CUESA E-Letter


