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Locals promote fresh foods, ideas
By Dina Samfield , Correspondent Posted: 06/25/2010 09:26:42 AM EDT
GROTON -- Dr. Jean Nordin-Evans, a dentist who says she has seen tooth breakdown from unhealthy diets, believes that "There is nothing more important than healthy food." She and her husband, Dr. Bob Evans, opened Groton Wellness Dental Spa in 2004.
In a period of about two-and-a-half weeks, she and a number of others interested in promoting healthy eating put together a June 16 public screening of the movie "Fresh," as well as a panel of six local food growers, a restaurant owner, and a chef, to discuss "new thinking about what we're eating."
The movie, produced and directed by Ana Sofia Joanes, opens with farmer Joel Salatin saying, "Americans fear only one thing: Inconvenience. We just want, want, want, but don't want to think about where it comes from."
The scene changes from his small farm, where animals roam free and forage on a diversity of grasses, to a supermarket full of processed food. From there the audience is taken to a large chicken farm where the Foxes, a married farming couple, discuss what they must do to satisfy the industrial company that purchases their chickens, such as use commercial chicken feed full of antibiotics and keep their chickens in crowded conditions, subjecting them to injury and the need for more antibiotics.