Following the screening of ‘Age of Stupid’ last November, The Brewhouse and the Taunton Transition Town group team up again on Tue 23rd March to bring you Food, Inc. a look under the rather disturbing lid of the American food industry to expose the highly mechanized  underbelly of a system that puts profits before consumer health. Directed by Robert Kenner, it features interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin.   Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what the US diet is really like, how it’s produced and what the future might hold.

Think it doesn’t happen over here too?  Join in the post-film panel discussion to share your own views on how we feed ourselves now in the UK, and what we need to do to make our food supplies both sustainable and ethical into the future.  Find out more about food co-ops, ‘People’s Supermarkets’, community supported agriculture schemes and more. Our local guest panelists will include Ian Tremain, Nuffield Farming Scholar; Tom Nielson, gardener, environmental designer and permaculturist; and Beth French, consumer representative on the Board of Taunton’s Farmers Market.
Starts 7.30pm.  Tickets £5 from Brewhouse Box Office 01823 283244.  All profits go to help the Brewhouse achieve it’s 10:10 pledge.

Continue the conversation about how we might set up our very own Community Supported Agriculture scheme in Taunton at 1.30pm at our drop-in the following Saturday – relocated to Richard Huish College to partner up with Sustainable Somerset’s all-day celebration of things green.  Contactchrissie@visionjuice.com for more details.