
Food Beware begins with a visit to a small village in France, where the town's mayor has decided to make the school lunch menu organic and locally grown. It then talks to a wide variety of people with differing perspectives to find common ground - children, parents, teachers, health care workers, farmers, elected officials, scientists, researchers and the victims of illnesses themselves. Revealed in these moving and often surprising conversations are the abuses of the food in... (Full plot summary below)
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Food Beware begins with a visit to a small village in France, where the town's mayor has decided to make the school lunch menu organic and locally grown. It then talks to a wide variety of people with differing perspectives to find common ground - children, parents, teachers, health care workers, farmers, elected officials, scientists, researchers and the victims of illnesses themselves. Revealed in these moving and often surprising conversations are the abuses of the food industry, the competing interests of agribusiness and public health, the challenges and rewards of safe food production, and the practical, sustainable solutions that we can all take part in. Food Beware is food for thought - and a blueprint for a growing revolution.
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| NPRBob MondelloBy and large, the tone is gentle, the music French, and the food shot so delectably that you can all but smell the freshly baked bread. |
| Village VoiceAaron HillisJean-Paul Jaud's indignant doc is equally worthless for preaching the merits of organic chow via an emotionally reactive argument instead of an investigative one. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenPrimary school kids show us adults the way by shouting the need for organic food. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsLouis ProyectThis outstanding documentary calls for a food revolution for the very best reason. Until there is a change in the way we produce food, we face an ever-escalating cancer epidemic. |
| AV ClubNoel MurrayJaud isn’t telling a story so much as he’s making a case, and while his case is persuasive, it doesn’t really work as a movie. The information in Food Beware could fit just as easily--and just as effectively--into a pamphlet. |
| Boxoffice MagazineSteve Ramos[Audiences] will take issue with the film's overwhelming number of talking heads, constant barrage of stats and director Jean-Paul Jaud's inability to craft a human story out of a very timely health issue. |
| Film Journal InternationalSarah SluisDocumentary about a movement to bring organic food to French schoolchildren is best when it observes, not lectures. |
| New York TimesMike HaleTakes a pragmatic, health-based approach, buttressed by frightening statistics about cancer rates among children, that’s a refreshing change from the moral and high-cultural preening that sometimes enter this debate in America. |
| User ReviewElke NIncreible, la informacion y todo lo que nos muestra de este pueblo llamado Berjac es inmejorable, que envidia poder vivir en un sitio como ese. Las cifras de la Unesco espeluznantes y todo muy bien documentado. La alegria de los niños es algo que nunca tendra valor alguno y que nuestras practicas agricolas estan borrando. Hay que verlo, como sea! |
| User ReviewAndres VIncreible, la informacion y todo lo que nos muestra de este pueblo llamado Berjac es inmejorable, que envidia poder vivir en un sitio como ese. Las cifras de la Unesco espeluznantes y todo muy bien documentado. La alegria de los ninios es algo que nunca tendra valor alguno y que nuestras practicas agricolas estan borrando. Hay que verlo, como sea! |