Food and Country Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Trailblazing food writer and best-selling memoirist Ruth Reichl examines the precarious state of America’s food system. Reaching across political and social divides, she meets with small farmers, ranchers, and chefs risking it all to survive. Through Reichl’s eyes, we see the humanity and struggle behind the food we eat. A Sundance Film Festival premiere.
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00:00If there is one thing you could explain to the American consumer about your business, what would it be?
00:06I would like the consumer to understand that the person that does all the work and has all the investment
00:12is doing it literally for nothing, and that the middlemen are getting all the money.
00:17I've been writing about food for 50 years, trying to get Americans to care more about it.
00:22Ruth Reichel.
00:22The revered restaurant critic for the New York Times.
00:25Ruth Reichel.
00:26Gourmet magazine editor.
00:27I really can't send cameras to anyone, you know.
00:30That's right, that's right.
00:33COVID was the wake-up call.
00:34Our broken food system was exposed.
00:36You have restaurants all over the world, right?
00:39Had is a key word there.
00:41The big issue is keeping all of our purveyors alive.
00:47The CEO of Tyson said the American food system is breaking.
00:51Yeah, you're right.
00:53The majority of mass agriculture in the United States is all about how cheaply can you produce it.
01:00And that's what's gotten us to where we are.
01:02The decree for risk these folks take on is staggering.
01:07Go to any financial advisor and say,
01:09all right, I'm going to risk $8 million this year and I'm going to work 100 hours a week for a $50,000 return.
01:15Man, they're going to tell you you're an idiot.
01:18Farming economics has been stressful.
01:21We're at cost of production or less.
01:23You know, what is your worth? What's your value?
01:26We understand that model of economics and we don't want any part of it.
01:29If those senators and representatives are smart, you don't want this country's food supply in limited hands.
01:36When we hired a hundred and something young, educated, passionate people,
01:42they needed a place to eat and sleep and shop and play.
01:47And so we built.
01:48When you ask the ocean what to grow,
01:50the ocean says grow things that won't swim away and you don't have to feed.
01:53When I grew this tomato and I bit into it, it just rocked my world.
01:58And everything is tied to everything else.
02:00I don't think of this farm as a factory.
02:02I think of it as an organism.
02:04That biodiversity is just waiting for us.
02:08What resulted is a really nice community.
02:11It's still tiny, but it's gone from ghost town, literally, to destination in a decade.
02:19So I'm very proud of that.