{"id":1425,"date":"2018-11-27T07:44:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T07:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2018-12-04T07:44:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T07:44:56","slug":"eating-animals-director-examines-the-ways-we-eat-and-the-implications-therein-awardsline-screening-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/eating-animals-director-examines-the-ways-we-eat-and-the-implications-therein-awardsline-screening-series\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Eating Animals\u2019 Director Examines The Ways We Eat, And The Implications Therein \u2014 Awardsline Screening Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"deadline-hollywood-logo-o\"When Natalie Portman got her hands on Jonathan Safran Foer\u2019s Eating Animals\u2014a New York Times best-seller examining our diets, and the consequences of the choices we make\u2014she rapidly converted from a vegetarian to a vegan, calling upon documentarian Christopher Quinn to bring this book to the screen. While the pedigree of those involved was substantial, Quinn approached this pitch with care. \u201cTo be honest, the initial response was, \u2018Do we need another food documentary? What is that going to mean?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Turning to Foer\u2019s book, the director decided to take on the project precisely because it offered something vital and new, as he explained to me last night, following an Awardsline screening of the film. \u201cI felt like I was a highly educated consumer of food,\u201d he said, \u201cand everything got turned upside down when I read the book.\u201d<\/p>\n

Examining a dying system of sustainable farming taken on by a plucky 1%, who stand in defiance of \u201cmassive, vertically integrated systems\u201d now controlling where we get our meat, dairy and eggs, Quinn felt empathy for his subjects, those \u201cwho carried on what is now the mythos of America\u2014a small patch quilt of farms that raise our food,\u201d and have been treated horribly by the powers that be.<\/p>\n

Finding his reason for making Eating Animals, Quinn still needed a way in\u2014a way of wrapping his arms around a story unfolding throughout history, involving myriad factors and shades of gray, without resorting to an account of \u201cone factoid after the next.\u201d For the director, it was important to make a film that was accessible, appealing not to one specific group of consumers, but to every human being\u2014each, with their own stake in the lives of (horrifically mistreated) animals, and the future of the planet. \u201cThere\u2019s this idea of not eating meat, which is really compelling to me, in a lot of ways, because I can see the damage it does, not only to the environment but to our own human health. There\u2019s something very valuable about that, but at the same time, it\u2019s a dialogue,\u201d he reflects. \u201cI loved living in the ambiguity of contemplating meat, and didn\u2019t want to really make it about telling somebody how they should eat. But more about, here\u2019s this information and let\u2019s start talking about this.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the end, Quinn became powerfully involved with the story he was telling, and the countless people it has impacted in one way or another, going to great lengths to share necessary truths\u2014truths that powerful forces have tried to hide from the public for many years, and will do anything to protect. \u201cThe industry spends billions of dollars to divorce us from where our food comes from. It\u2019s a system that\u2019s in place, and going up against it is disruptive to them. There are more violent moments of extreme anger that comes up that are not in the film,\u201d the director shares. \u201cBut I will say, they know it\u2019s wrong. You can see it in their faces, their pain, because they\u2019re one generation away from proper farming. It\u2019s that era of \u2018Get big or get out,\u2019 and you see that they\u2019re not happy about it, just as we\u2019re not happy about it. That gives me hope in a lot of ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When Natalie Portman got her hands on Jonathan Safran Foer\u2019s Eating Animals\u2014a New York Times best-seller examining our diets, and the consequences of the choices we make\u2014she rapidly converted from a vegetarian to a vegan, calling upon documentarian Christopher Quinn to bring this book to the screen. While the pedigree of those involved was substantial,
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