Review of Food Stamped on Lettuce Eat Kale
June 26, 2009 by Jane Boursaw
There’s a thoughtful new film out called "Food Stamped." I haven’t seen it yet, but my friend Sarah Henry reviewed it on her blog, Lettuce Eat Kale.
Sarah writes, "Who knew that a documentary on the food stamp program could be funny, infuriating, informative, and entertaining all at once?"
"Food Stamped" follows a couple’s attempt to eat a healthy, well-balanced diet on a food stamp budget. The filmmakers are nutrition educator Shira Potash, who teaches nutrition-based cooking classes to elementary school students in low-income neighborhoods, and her documentary filmmaker husband, Yoav.
As Sarah writes, "Let’s face it: Money and time is tight and fast food is cheap. Why not load up the shopping cart, as one food stamp recipient does, with pallets of Top Ramen noodle packets? … But as we learn, the price is right — for all the wrong reasons. Junk food cranked out by industrial food producers costs less because of government subsidies for big agriculture that small organic farmers simply don’t get."
Read Sarah’s great review of the film on Lettuce Eat Kale, and check out the trailer below.
