The apartment was on the fourth floor of a walk-up in the residential 15eme district in Paris. An aged wood staircase creaked a melancholic off-tune melody conducted by my footsteps. Catching my breath at the arrival, I was faced with a narrow and dim passage leading to a worn down once white door.

I entered my friend’s place with anticipation. It was the first time I would visit him there. It was a charming one-bedroom, reeking of typical Parisian charm. What I directly felt was a sense of history, experience and style. He had a blend of rustic matured furniture that was left by the senior landlord mixed with typical amenities of our century: a flat screen TV, laptop, surround system, and an Ipod deck. On the walls were vintage rock and at posters from the 60s. The whole feel of the place was exactly as I would imagine a cozy apartment in Paris to be. Except, that it wasn’t quite so.

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Did you know that the way we eat has changed more over the past 50 years than the last 10000 years? That our modern supermarkets has on average 47000 products, many of which are made with the same ingredients, many from corn! The food industry is at its most powerful state with a “faster fatter better cheaper” ideology. Where do we stand in all of this dichotomy? The power lies in our hands every time we buy something.

Award-winning filmmaker Robert Kenner worked for over six years to help shed the light on all these issues and more in his enlightening documentary Food, Inc. If you haven’t seen it already, then you should definitely do so. I guarantee it will change your outlook on food, or at the minimum become a bit more aware.