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Food, Inc. (2008)

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Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 105
Fresh: 101 | 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.

96

Average Rating: 7.8/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 26 | 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

PG, 1 hr. 34 min.

Documentary, Special Interest

Nov 3, 2009

$4.2M

Magnolia Pictures

All Critics (105) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (102) | Rotten (4) | DVD (5)

Smart, gripping, and untainted by the influence of Michael Moore.

August 20, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comments (3)
Chicago Reader
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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.

July 8, 2009 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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A mind-boggling, heart-rending, stomach-churning expose on the food industry.

June 26, 2009 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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If you are what you eat, we are mostly genetically modified, poorly regulated, unhealthy meat byproducts generating profits for a few gargantuan corporations.

June 26, 2009 Full Review Source: Detroit News | Comment
Detroit News
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Food, Inc. tackles a vast problem, but sends us home with glimmers of hope.

June 25, 2009 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | Comment
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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An angry blast of disgust aimed at the American food industry.

June 22, 2009 Full Review Source: New Yorker | Comment
New Yorker
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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.

September 29, 2011 Full Review Source: American Profile | Comment

A doco which could make you sick!

December 31, 2010 Full Review Source: sbs.com.au | Comment
sbs.com.au

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).

October 21, 2010 Full Review Source: Quickflix | Comment

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.

July 4, 2010 Comment
Screenwize

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.

May 21, 2010 Full Review Source: The Age (Australia) | Comment
The Age (Australia)

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.

May 17, 2010 Full Review Source: Sunday Times (Australia) | Comment
Sunday Times (Australia)

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

April 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile

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.

February 16, 2010 Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK] | Comment
Daily Mail [UK]

A seriously important film.

February 16, 2010 Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | Comment
Shadows on the Wall

An insightful and at times troubling exposé of the American food industry.

February 16, 2010 Full Review Source: The Skinny | Comment
The Skinny

Compelling, entertaining and illuminating documentary which makes you think twice, and then a few more times, about eating anything at all in U.S.

February 12, 2010 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

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...

February 12, 2010 Full Review Source: Times [UK] | Comments (2)
Times [UK]

Living off the fat of corporate farming

February 10, 2010 Full Review Source: JWR | Comment

The film's inherently ambitious sensibilities initially serve it well...

January 20, 2010 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

Feels like the Cliffs notes version of a gripping book.

December 18, 2009 Full Review Source: Goatdog's Movies | Comments (4)

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.

November 28, 2009 Full Review Source: Window to the Movies | Comment
Window to the Movies

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.

November 24, 2009 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | Comment (1)
Laramie Movie Scope

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.

November 19, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinerina | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Food, Inc.

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

October 9, 2011
theunknownhobo
Unknown Hobo

Super Reviewer

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

April 22, 2011
PedroPauloA

Super Reviewer

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