An eye-opening expose of the modern food industry, Food, Inc. is both fascinating and terrifying, and essential viewing for any health-conscious citizen.
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
public, so why is it that both government regulatory agencies have been complicit in allowing corporations to put profit ahead of consumer health, the American farmer, worker safety, and even the environment? As chicken breasts get bigger and tomatoes are genetically engineered not to go bad, 73,000 Americans fall ill from powerful new strains of E. coli every year, obesity levels are skyrocketing, and adult diabetes has reached epidemic proportions. Perhaps if the general public knew how corporations use exploited laws and subsidies to create powerful monopolies, the outrage would be enough to make us think more carefully about the food we put into our bodies. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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.
If you are what you eat, we are mostly genetically modified, poorly regulated, unhealthy meat byproducts generating profits for a few gargantuan corporations.
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.
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...
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.
His film shows us ugly, faceless corporate greed and its truly fatal consequences, but gives us tools to dismantle or at least throttle back the machine %u2013 and hopefully solve some of the world's ills as well.
This documentary is one that has stayed with me after viewing it, unlike many of its kind. It documents the true cost of mass produced food and gives you, the consumer, facts you never even thought you needed to know. As someone who did not eat meat for three years and now does, this film definitely had me questioning
everything that I not only purchase but eat. It made a fool of everyone I know and whatever you think you know about mass production, this movie sets the wrongs to right. A truly inspirational and precise documentary about human kind in general and the price we put on profit. Exceptional.
October 9, 2011
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You'll never look at dinner the same way again InterestingLike most documentaries; which I have become more fond of lately, they are almost always very intresting. Food Inc. is a game changer, like its tagline dictates "You'll never look at dinner the same way again " and to be honest this comes out to be
quite true.The documentary is about the enigma and the corruption behind fast food, and food itself. It follows the different processes that our food undergoes and the disgusting corruption that is behind it.I think everyone should give Food Inc. a chance, its a movie that has lots to tell, its very interesting, and it gives out a great lesson and changes the way you will eventually look at things. I liked it and I think many people will like it too.Narrator: The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000
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