Food, Inc. (2008)
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 106
Fresh: 102 | Rotten: 4
An eye-opening expose of the modern food industry, Food, Inc. is both fascinating and terrifying, and essential viewing for any health-conscious citizen.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 1
An eye-opening expose of the modern food industry, Food, Inc. is both fascinating and terrifying, and essential viewing for any health-conscious citizen.
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Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner uses reports by Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser and The Omnivore's Dilemma author Michael Pollan as a springboard to exploring where the food we purchase at the grocery store really comes from, and what it means for the health of future generations. By exposing the comfortable relationships between business and government, Kenner gradually shines light on the dark underbelly of the American food industry. The USDA and FDA are supposed to protect the
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This is the kind of muckraking we should see more often.
Top CriticThis solidly constructed documentary aims to do for food production what An Inconvenient Truth did for global warming.
Smart, gripping, and untainted by the influence of Michael Moore.
After you see what IBP is doing to cattle, what Tyson is doing to chickens, what farmers are doing to us and what Monsanto is doing to farmers in the new documentary Food, Inc., you may never eat again.
A mind-boggling, heart-rending, stomach-churning expose on the food industry.
If you are what you eat, we are mostly genetically modified, poorly regulated, unhealthy meat byproducts generating profits for a few gargantuan corporations.
One word of caution: Eat before you see it. After it's over, the idea of a swing through the drive-thru might not be so appetizing.
A doco which could make you sick!
Food, Inc. -- a disturbing expose of the food industry -- is essential watching. You need to see it. Take your kids. Take your neighbour's kids. Take a stranger's kids (well, maybe that's a bit much).
As a piece of investigative journalism, it does a terrific job examining the real price paid for nice plump chicken breasts, disease-resistant soya beans and hamburger for all.
Concerned with entertainment value as well as clarity and punch, he uses lots of colourful graphics, and moves quickly from one aspect of his subject to another.
This enlightening film takes aim at the US food industry by exposing the astounding and dubious means by which the source of our food is harvested and processed.
An activist-made film of considerable interest, Food, Inc is also a piece of investigative journalism that tells us a thousand things that are pertinent to eating everyday food. Did you know that chickens are farmed to fatten in 45 days and grow bigger
A heartfelt condemnation of mass-produced, chemically treated food, though it covers so many areas of concern in 94 minutes that it is necessarily superficial.
A seriously important film.
An insightful and at times troubling exposé of the American food industry.
Compelling, entertaining and illuminating documentary which makes you think twice, and then a few more times, about eating anything at all in U.S.
Overused narration treats the audience like the cattle being abused on screen; a continuous score rams the message home, just in case we missed the point...
Living off the fat of corporate farming
The film's inherently ambitious sensibilities initially serve it well...
Feels like the Cliffs notes version of a gripping book.
It's a harsh feeling, but Food, Inc. does its job in just getting out the information that most of us probably want to ignore and shouldn't.
One shocking segment of the film follows the story of Moe Parr, a man legally hounded out of his business of cleaning seeds. He is a victim of laws which allow seed patents which are leading to corporate seed monopolies.
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Preaching to the converted here but still, knowing and seeing are two different things. It is horrifying, sickening and shocking. This was a wake up call to many people though and for that it should be praised. This is important documentary film making. It never sensationalised either, it's all there and undeniable - the companies didn't even try. People who dispute these issues really baffle me. A great documentary that should be seen by all!
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- Food, Inc. - Was essen wir wirklich? (DE)
