The buzz about the new film by Eric Schlosser, author of the acclaimed Fast Food Nation, is pretty intense right now. How appropriate for Saturn to provide a real in your face look at what’s in your plate during the last few months of his sojourn through Virgo, ruler of the body and the digestive system. We have blogged about this regularly in the last few years.

From the “Hungry for Change” site:

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

It’s a must-watch: