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2025 · FILM

Breaking Big Food

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Synopsis

Food giants bought by tobacco firms since 1980s changed US food systems. A former lobbyist reveals industry manipulation, while local businesses partner with farms to restore healthy food options. Starting in the 1980s, cigarette companies began to acquire the largest food companies in America. Over the last 40 years, the American food system has gotten "forked" beyond all recognition. Calley Means, a former DC lobbyist, explains the broken incentive structure of how "Big Food" manipulates "Big Government" leading to garbage in our grocery stores. But there is hope... you'll be inspired as we follow what's happening at the local level where renegade local businesses - such as Shake Up Super Foods, Good Living Greens, Firefly Organic Coffee and Market, and others work with local farms - like Arizona Grass Fed Beef Company, Inspire Farms, Crow's Dairy, and others to bring clean, organic, healthy food back to the people in their community.—Jigsaw Health Studios

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Principal cast & crew: 12

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Edited by Cory MalkinShot by Cole Uphaus

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