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For most Americans, the ideal meal is fast, cheap, and tasty. Food, Inc. examines the costs of putting value and convenience over nutrition and environmental impact. Director Robert Kenner explores the subject from all angles, talking to authors, advocates, farmers, and CEOs, like co-producer Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma), Gary Hirschberg (Stonyfield Farms), and Barbara Kowalcyk, who's been lobbying for more rigorous standards since E. coli claimed the life of her two-year-old son. The filmmaker takes his camera into slaughterhouses and factory farms where chickens grow too fast to walk properly, cows eat feed pumped with toxic chemicals, and illegal immigrants risk life and limb to bring these products to market at an affordable cost. If eco-docs tends to preach to the converted, Kenner presents his findings in such an engaging fashion that Food, Inc. may well reach the very viewers who could benefit from it the most: harried workers who don't have the time or income to read every book and eat non-genetically modified produce every day. Though he covers some of the same ground as Super-Size Me and King Korn, Food Inc. presents a broader picture of the problem, and if Kenner takes an understandably tough stance on particular politicians and corporations, he's just as quick to praise those who are trying to be responsible--even Wal-Mart, which now carries organic products. That development may have more to do with economics than empathy, but the consumer still benefits, and every little bit counts. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must see!!!,
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This review is from: Food Inc / Les alimenteurs (Bilingual Edition) (DVD)
This video is a definite must see. It will really help you to understand where your food comes from & how no care is given to the end result to the consumer. It shows how corporations are all about growing/harvesting/processing as much as they can in the quickest possible way & they do not seem to care who is hurt along the way. This creates nutritionally devoid foods which cause illnesses. Please take the time to watch & share this film. It will encourage you to make healthier changes to your life. For an even more shocking look at where your food comes from, watch Earthlings. Wow!! I will be eating organic, vegan and raw as much as I can.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Food politics for grown-ups,
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This review is from: Food Inc / Les alimenteurs (Bilingual Edition) (DVD)
Finally - this is what I've been waiting for.If you've read "Fast Food Nation" and "Omnivore's Dilemma" and "The Way We Eat" (Peter Singer) and have been waiting for a film equivalent of these books, Food Inc is the one. Food Inc is a very comprehensive overview of how control of the food industry has come under the control of a handful of supersized companies, and why these companies successfully change government legislation so that what gets protected is industry profit, NOT public health and food safety. This film is good investigative journalism, and covers this ground thoughtfully and intellectually. There are some nasty looks at factory farming practices (which are sickening and which should make you go veggie), but it is very much NOT a PETA video (i.e. basically a one-sided rant). When this movie finishes you will have no doubt that something is fundamentally wrong with the North American food industry, and you'll feel compelled to start making changes.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Food Inc...scary stuff!,
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This review is from: Food Inc / Les alimenteurs (Bilingual Edition) (DVD)
This movie certainly makes one think...my next trip to our local grocer was enlightening.In particular, farmers legallly unable to use their own seeds..."they who own the seeds, own the food" - truth really is stranger than fiction... Scary stuff - a must see.
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