Food, Inc.

2009 "You'll never look at dinner the same way again."
7.8| 1h34m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 12 June 2009 Released
Producted By: Magnolia Pictures
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.takepart.com/foodinc
Synopsis

Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how mammoth corporations have taken over all aspects of the food chain in the United States, from the farms where our food is grown to the chain restaurants and supermarkets where it's sold. Narrated by author and activist Eric Schlosser, the film features interviews with average Americans about their dietary habits, commentary from food experts like Michael Pollan and unsettling footage shot inside large-scale animal processing plants.

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Alicia I love this movie so much
Micransix Crappy film
AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
jtramire Food, Inc. is something all people who eat should watch, because not many know the truth about food. Most food production is controlled by mega-businesses or monopolies who terribly regulate everything that goes into making food. Most of these dirty deeds are attempted to be kept secret and covered up by the companies, but Food, Inc. does a great job of unveiling these secrets. This was a real eye opener to see the cruel ways they treat animals, all the chemicals plants and animals are exposed to, and how unnaturally these foods are produced.The way farmers treat the animals is uncalled for and inhumane. For example, most animals are crammed together in a small area, and fed with unhealthy corn based food, steroids and antibiotics. These animals are deformed and standing in their own waste, then are brutally killed. A "good farmer" that is shown in the documentary kills his chickens out in the open which makes them more likely to be healthy and tasty. Animals who live like they would naturally are healthier than the animals that become food for these mega-businesses. These companies treat their farms like factories even though they are working with living things. Treating them that poorly makes them less healthy and worse for the consumers of the food they make.Also it addresses genetically modified seeds and how it effects crops. They also cross into properties that don't want them and can ruin their crops. There are examples shown in the film of people and their families being affected by all the negative effects of the food industry. Most everyday people shop at normal stores such as Walmart and get the food provided by the huge corporations, because they are cheaper and easier to get. Most people don't have the money or access to small farmers markets that do things the right way and grow food and livestock naturally.This film is a documentary meant to educate viewers on the crooked regulation of monopolies and hopefully convert people to organic food. It is very informational and gives great insight into this industry that is so secretive of their methods and production. I can't see someone watching this film and not rethinking the food they eat and consider making a change. Hopefully more people can become educated on this topic and the monopolies can be exposed and we can go back to organic methods.
camstross Food Inc is a very influential documentary about the food we are eating today. It gives us insight on the healthy, but mostly the unhealthy things we are consuming on a regular basis. It talked about many different topics which were organized in a way that allowed the viewer to understand more clearly. The film started off by giving facts about how the average grocery store contains 47,000 different products, and how some of the freshest of these items are modified. It gave the tomato as an example. In today's day in age, the tomato is available all throughout the year. This is because of all the preservatives that they use in it. Most of us do not understand on what we are consuming, and the side affects it can cause the human body. Later throughout it talked about how farmers are mistreated, and how they have to abide by the rule of the major corporations. This causes them to mass produce, and to take less notice to sanitation. With less care to sanitation, the more bacteria can spread throughout the system. They even stated there people were e coli strands from spinach. One day a small child ate 3 hamburgers, and within a short time period he was dead. It was so tragic and sad to hear that story because the boy had no idea what was happening. Overall it helped me take notice about things that our society needs to do better to stop these major corporations from running the country. We need the old lifestyle of farming back where cows do not eat corn, but eat in grasslands.
btudisca I had to write an essay on local and organic food. As a starting point I watched this movie because it seemed to be very close to my topic. I am rating this movie an 8/10 because it is actually very eye-opening. While it may be a very biased review on the Meat packing industry because Michael Pollan is an all natural food activist, it does its job, and does it well. There are things about this movie that if you think about it, you know it is truthful. The meat packing industry does play a HUGE role in our world. The representatives from these companies are also ones that are wholly in charge in DC. They don't want the secrets of the meat industry getting out, which is why there is such little knowledge on the entire process. People know that animals are mistreated and that there are huge flaws, but by watching this film you really learn a lot about them. It is a very graphic documentary at some points, so viewer discretion is definitely recommended. All aside, this is an excellent documentary and is actually helping me to change my eating habits. Not going completely vegetarian, but eating more locally produced options, from places that I know and that I know i can trust with treating animals justly, and not using harmful chemicals.
jesse-easton This movie is a really good movie if you wanna learn a few things about the food industry and how much money the businesses make and how they farm their food. I learned a few things myself. If you like food, then you wanna watch this to see what you are putting in your mouth, this movie explains a lot about good food and what chemicals are on the food. E-Coli being one of them, is a harmful poisoning you can get from eating food, if you get E-Coli then that means the food company that the food you are eating is not doing part of their job, because they are suppose to put ammonia on the foods to kill all the E-Coli bacteria so nobody will get E-Coli anymore. I recommend this movie for anyone who likes food, or wants to work in the food industry so that they will know what they will be up against and how much money you will make.