The Sustainable Ewing Green Team is set to present a screening of Food, Inc. as part of its Environmental Insights Series.
Camille Miller of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey is set to lead a discussion after the film.
The Environmental Insights Series features environmental presentations designed to engage Ewing residents in a public conversation about critical environmental issues and to spark new ideas concerning sustainability.
Food, Inc. is a 2008 American documentary film that lifts the veil on the nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that is hidden from the American consumer with the consent of the government’s regulatory agencies, the USDA and FDA.
According to the film makers, America’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. The film reveals shocking truths about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
Camille Miller is an organic food advocate who has worked extensively in raising awareness around food and farming issues at the local, state and national levels. She also serves as vice president of the board on the NOFA Interstate Council, a seven state organic farming coalition.
Miller is an active member in the National Organic Coalition, an alliance of grassroots organic groups and environmental organizations working to provide a “Washington voice” for farmers, ranchers, environmentalists and others involved in organic agriculture as well as a national trained speaker for the Institute of Responsible Technology on genetically-engineered food.
The screening is scheduled for 7 p.m. May 27 in room 113 in the College of New Jersey’s Education Building, 2000 Pennington Road, Ewing.
The Sustainable Ewing Green Team is an annually appointed township board and meets the fourth Wednesday of each month at the Ewing Senior and Community Center.
More information is online at ewinggreenteam.org.
