Around 100 people gathered last night at the Wealthy Street Theatre for screenings of two movies, the Sierra Club’s The True Cost of Food and What Will We Eat?, a documentary by Christopher Bedford, president of massive environmental impacts of factory farming, the average of 1500 miles produce travels from farm to plate, and the corresponding lack of freshness and increased use of fossil fuels, and the effects of pesticide use on consumers, among other issues. After the movie, an hour long question and answer session took place. The event was an important one in that it raised awareness about what the growing, shipping, and selling of food entails and that there are alternatives to food that involves such destructive and unhealthy processes.
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