by Juliet Farmer

Pesticide Watch Education Fund presents Food, Inc., on Friday, July 3, from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., at the Crest Theatre at 1013 "K" Street. Tickets are $12 and include a post-show panel discussion featuring Ann Martin Rolke, author of Hands-off Cooking, Sacatomato.com  blogger, and chef; Jaclyn Hopkins, coordinator EAT (Environment & Agriculture Taskforce) Sacramento; Gail Feenstra, Food Systems Analyst, UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program; Elizabeth Martin-Craig, Community Organizer, Pesticide Watch Education Fund; and Paul Muller, Full Belly Farm. Food, Inc., goes behind the scenes of where our food comes from and lifts the veil off the U.S. food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly once hidden from the American consumer. Food, Inc., reveals surprising, often shocking, truths about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are headed.

The film 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), Stonyfield's Gary Hirshberg, and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin.

Food, Inc., plays Friday, July 3, through Thursday, July 9. Click here   for show times.

To learn more about the film, or about food-related topics including genetic engineering, environmental impact, foodborne illnesses, healthy eating, pesticides, cloning, farm worker protection, factory farming, and labels on restaurant food, visit the Food, Inc, website