About this movie
- Genres:
- Documentary
- Language:
- English
- Running time:
- 1:33:45
- Partner rating:
- Released:
- 2008
- Quality:
- 480 (DVD equivalent)
Cast & Crew
Cast
- Michael Pollan
- Eric Schlosser
- Gary Hirschberg
- Joe Salatin
Directors
- Robert Kenner
Producers
- Robert Kenner
- Elise Pearlstein
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Food, Inc.
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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.
Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes
96%
percent positive reviews
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Don Groves, sbs.com.au
A doco which could make you sick!
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Gavin Bond, Sunday Times (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.
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Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile
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
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Philip Wilding, Empire Magazine
Compelling, entertaining and illuminating documentary which makes you think twice, and then a few more times, about eating anything at all in U.S.
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Wendy Ide, Times [UK]
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...
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Cliff Doerksen, Chicago Reader
Smart, gripping, and untainted by the influence of Michael Moore.
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Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
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.
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Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle
A mind-boggling, heart-rending, stomach-churning expose on the food industry.
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