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Don’t forget to check your local PBS listings to see when Food Inc. will be airing.

The official time for the film about the mass production of food is tonight at 9:00PM, but it varies depending on your location.

You can enter your zip code on the POV PBS page to see when the show will be broadcasted in your area.

Food Inc. is being accompanied by a brief, 20 minute documentary titled Notes on Milk, about the politics of the dairy industry and the plight of small, independent farmers.

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Food Inc.

To celebrate Earth Month in April, Whole Foods is sponsoring an event, Let’s Retake Our Plates, which features screenings of earth friendly films across the country.

A entire list of films in the series can be found on the website, which also lists screenings by state.

Incredibly, these screenings cover the map of the United States well, from California to D.C. to Tennessee, so be sure to check the listings for one near you.

As expected, the Oscar nominated Food Inc. is on the list, as well as Fast Food Nation, the Beavan family’s adventures living with less environment impact in No Impact Man, and What’s On Your Plate?

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Author Michael Pollan hasn’t always expressed warm feelings for the vegetarian and vegan community, but in a recent interview with Time magazine, he said he has “enormous respect for vegetarians,” and eats a lot less meat than in the past.

In an exclusive interview with the Huffington Post, Pollan gave his thoughts on animal rights, criticizer of factory farming and author Jonathan Safran Foer and even Oprah.

That’s quite a combination, and here are a few highlights.

On Foer and “Eating Animals”
In terms of the argument that I don’t grapple with meat, I would refer Jonathan and anyone else to Chapter…hold on, I can dig it out… (flips through book)…it’s a very long…Chapter 17 of Omnivore’s Dilemma, “The Ethics of Eating Animals.” And that is where I try to grapple with the best arguments against meat eating, which in my view are Peter Singer’s arguments, and defend a very limited kind of meat eating, which is the kind I do.

On Animal Rights:
I think one of the changes you’ve seen in the animals right’s community in the last five or ten years is a lot more interest in mitigating the worst abuses of animal agriculture …which I think is a more realistic goal than abolition.

On Oprah Winfrey:
She had a very bad run-in with the cattle industry, and she doesn’t want to spend any more time in court, so it was much to her credit and it took a certain courage for her to air the issues and show clips from Food Inc., especially, and to have me on, and the fact that she was willing to re-engage on these issues of factory farming was all to her credit.

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Kirstie Alley took to Twitter to express her excitement for the Oscar nominated documentary, Food Inc.

“Yes, we’ve been talking about Food Inc all day…great informative needed flick.”

An inside look at the industrial mass production of food while highlighting small, organic farms as a better alternative, Food Inc. can be viewed for free on PBS on April 21.

The best films in life may really be free after all, and not available through pay-per-view.

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If you haven’t picked up the DVD copy of Food Inc., here’s your chance to view it for free.

PBS will be broadcasting the Oscar nominated film about the origins of food on April 21st.

The network suggests you invite others over and hold a potluck while viewing the film and Vegan.com goes further to suggest a get together void of meat, poultry, fish, eggs and dairy.

Heck, yeah.

Who’s bringing the vegan nacho cheese dip?

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Is Lost actress Rebecca Mader thinking of going vegetarian?

After watching Food Inc., the actress tells Mother Nature Network she found it hard to eat chicken.

“I had just ordered chicken from room service and I couldn’t eat it,” she said, adding that the movie “really changed the way I look at food. With corn syrup being in everything, I’m starting to look at packages and trying to eat more basic, real food.”

Chances of Rebecca giving up animals for food are good, given the fact she was never a Big Mac five times a week gal anyway.

“I was never really a big meat eater and since seeing Food, Inc. I haven’t eaten out very much at all. And if I have it’s been in organic restaurants.”

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Food Inc. is the talk of the town among Hollywood greenies like Stella McCartney.

The ethical fashion designer spoke to Black Book Mag about the premiere, where she shared her thoughts on what her mother Linda McCartney would think about it, as well as the state of the food industry today.

Linda was both a vegetarian and activist and founded a line of frozen vegetarian entrees.

“Obviously my mother would have been very saddened the way things have turned out with how we produce our food, so that’s why I feel so motivated by the issues,” Stella said.

“We’re not moving forward in a very positive way. It seems that money really is the root of all evil. It’s scary how the food industry is so intertwined with politics. I guess my mum would have been disappointed with how things are.”

Stella said the biggest shocker of all she learned from Food Inc. was that there are “only five major players that provide all the food.”

Read the entire interview with Stella at Black Book Mag.

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Actor Richard E. Grant attended a screening of Food Inc., a film that encourages people to learn where their food comes from.

Grant received a shocking message about where chicken comes from during a scene in the movie, Withnail and I.

From Metro:

“It was gruesome in that the chicken that they used, that was alive in one scene in the film, was then decapitated and used later on, so it put me off.”

Needless to say, he doesn’t eat chicken anymore.

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