Of Chicken Coops and Oscar Luncheons: The Story of Food, Inc.

by Elise Pearlstein
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/producing/article/food_inc_elise_pearlstein_robert_kenner_20100218/
Days after we filmed at Carole Morison’s chicken farm in Pocomoke, Maryland, our production van was still swarming with flies attracted by all the chicken poop we had tracked in on our shoes. Sitting inside a ballroom at a Beverly Hills hotel with 120 other Oscar nominees, Carole’s farm seemed very far away. But it’s because people like Carole Morison were willing to participate in Food, Inc. that I was sitting at that luncheon at all.