Delve Deeper into Food, Inc A film by Robert Kenner This multi-media resource list, Public Affairs, 2009. Expanding Second Nature: A Gardener's compiled by Susan Conlon and on the film’s themes, the book Education (1991). Martha Perry of the Princeton Food, Inc. will answer those Public Library, includes books, questions through a series of Richardson, Jill. Recipe for films and other materials challenging essays by leading America: Why Our Food System related to the issues presented experts and thinkers. This book will is Broken and What We Can Do in the film Food, Inc. encourage those inspired by the to Fix It. Ig Publishing, 2009. film to learn more about the issues, Food activist Jill Richardson shows In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert and act to change the world. how sustainable agriculture—where Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's local farms raise food that is food industry, exposing the highly Hamilton, Lisa M. 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