When Foodies and Bookworms collide

Fascinated by how local restaurants operate differently than chain restaurants? Curious about how much impact the fast food industry has on your everyday life? Or maybe you just need some kind of argument prepared when your friend suggests going out for the Dollar Menu again for, like, the third time this week.

In any case, we've made a list of our top 3 most interesting reads about the food industry:

• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser - One of our favorites. This book delivers on all fronts - how the fast food industry became what it is, interviews with insiders, a fast-paced narrative and recommendations to use in our everyday lives. If you don't have time to read the book it's been adapted into a documentary called Food, Inc. 

• American Wasteland by Johnathan Bloom - For the eco-friendly crowd, this book delivers insight on sustainability movements within the food industry and the impact food waste has in America. 

• The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Eating Local by Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon - A couple decides to challenge themselves to only eat at local restaurants within 100 miles of their apartment. This book is certainly the most personal of stories on our list and will leave you feeling in need of a local date night!

Saving the planet one meal at a time!

If you've ever paid attention to the side of the road while you're driving you've likely noticed the occasional pieces of trash people have thrown from their cars. 

The most common things discarded?

                 Fast food bags and wrappers. 

This makes sense - people eat fast food when they're on the go so of course it's more likely to end up on the streets. However, there's another reason you see so many McDonald's papers collecting in ditches: fast food places use more packaging. Packaging goes way beyond the fry containers and paper cups. Big businesses require tons - literally tons - of food products to be shipped in additional tons of cardboard, plastic, and paper. It's estimated that the fast food industry generates 1.8 million tons of waste just in their packaging. Fortunately, most fast food chains are trying to change this trend. 

Local restaurants already have a distinct advantage when it comes to using resources. These businesses are managed locally, which means food and other products have less distance to travel. Simply put, local restaurants produce less waste because they require less packaging. Just another reason to love local!

Video Killed The Radio Stars

Hello fellow food fanatics! Here is the second cut of the video for our homepage. Enjoy!

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Video Rough Draft

Hello fellow foodies! Here is a rough draft of our video for the home page of our website. Enjoy!

Give The People What They Want

Here is a link to an interview with the director of the documentary "Food Inc." on YouTube. Robert Kenner details the information used in the documentary as well as how he produced the interviews. This documentary is integral to the local and nutritional food movement as well as the beginnings of The Food Fighters.

Watch This or Die! 

Video Influences

The videos that inspire the Food Fighters have the tone that we are striving for; a hook, and a natural progression of quick shots that show what we're about. Our video will be shorter than the two examples, but they are still pretty fast-moving which we are aiming for.

This is the first video. This video uses interviews from local business owners and "locavores" along with text instructing people of the benefits of eating locally and organically. Our video will follow this model by using interviews, but we plan to use voiceover in lieu of just text on a screen.

This is the second video. This documentary mirrors the tone that we are shooting for. The documentary is called "Food Inc." and it details the conventional food system and its flaws.