TY - JOUR AU - Kolodinsky, Jane PY - 2014/12/10 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - More Than One Meaning of “Chain” in Food Chains, a Documentary Film JF - Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development JA - J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev. VL - 5 IS - 1 SE - Review DO - 10.5304/jafscd.2014.051.011 UR - https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/310 SP - 197-198 AB - <p><em>First paragraph:</em></p><span>On November 18, 2014, I had the opportunity to see an advance screening of </span><em>Food Chains,</em><span> a documentary from the producers of </span><em>Fast Food Nation </em><span>and </span><em>Food, Inc. </em><span>(It was released in the U.S. on November 21.) The film is about the long and arduous journey of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to win rights — basic rights — as farmworkers. The film was shown at the American Public Health Association (APHA) meetings in New Orleans, sponsored by the Food and Environment Working Group at APHA and hosted by Healthy Food Action. Worker rights have a lot to do with public health. But the film serves a much bigger audience. It can be used as a transdisciplinary starting point for discussion by scholars and practitioners in the food system who are interested in health, worker safety, food justice, labor laws, unlikely partners, and economic power and concentration in the food industry...</span> ER -