Published June 05, 2009, 06:48 PM
Eerie, horror movie-style music swells in the background of the new documentary “Food, Inc.” It’s meant to signal the audience that the pastoral fantasy of agrarian America on everything from packages of breakfast sausage to cereal boxes is not what it seems, that great danger lurks behind the cheery images of 1930s-era red barns and white picket fences.
Food, dangerous food
New film offers troubling view of U.S. food industryEerie, horror movie-style music swells in the background of the new documentary “Food, Inc.” It’s meant to signal the audience that the pastoral fantasy of agrarian America on everything from packages of breakfast sausage to cereal boxes is not what it seems, that great danger lurks behind the cheery images of 1930s-era red barns and white picket fences.
By: Ann Levin, Associated Press
