Food, Inc. |  | Director: Robert Kenner
Actor: Eric Schlosser
Studio: Magnolia Home Entertainment
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Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 91 Minutes
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Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 0.6
MPN: 10216
UPC: 876964002165
EAN: 0876964002165
ASIN: B0027BOL4G
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: November 3, 2009
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| • | In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farm |
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Product Description
Food, Inc. lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing how our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Food, Inc. reveals surprising - and often shocking truths - about what we eat, how it's produced and who we have become as a nation.
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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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 Watch this video, then buy local & contact your congressmen! March 15, 2010
Angelarae (Pennsylvania)
I was aware that our food industry is leading us down the path to disaster, but I didn't know how bad it was. I've read things in books, but when you see it on the camera it makes it so much more real.
This movie touches on many problems in our food industry. For example, genetically modified foods, how we may end up eating cloned animal meat if we don't speak up to congress and the FDA, how there are only a few companies controlling most of the food industry and how that power and money are influencing our government and railroading farmers, and of course, how inhumane these animals, and the workers who process them, are treated.
The most eye-opening things for me were: 1)if you feed cows grass for 5 days, they'll clean themselves of 80% of ecoli bacteria, but instead of doing that, industries "cleanse" our meat with AMMONIA, 2)policy makers and judges are not in bed with these corporations, they come straight from these companies to these very important political positions, 3)the USDA no longer has the power to shut down factories who repeatedly have tainted facilities, 4) corporations can now patent life and therefore can sue others for using/reusing their "seeds," and will take farmers who don't use their seeds to court accusing them of this crime just to send a message, and/or to put this farmer out of business and in process these lawyer/companies are able to obtain EVERY BANK TRANSACTION that farmer has made in the past 10 years (I imagine the companies then go after the people with whom the poor farmer/seed cleaner has been in business).
What I found disappointing was the lack of information in this video, but it is a movie, not a mini-series. As I said, "it touches" on these different issues, but there's much more to know - I guess the watcher should be smart enough to do more research and read some books. I would've like have seen in this video, "why is corn so harmful to digest by animals AND humans? how can the stress these animals are in, especially before the slaughter, affect us? what happens to these small organic companies who get bought out by corporations but keep their "organic" identity? how exactly does a food become "genetically modified" and what may be the consequences to our health? how close are we (or are we already there) to having our food come from cloned animals? what other ways is the farmer, who's grass-feeding his beef, helping the environment/ecosystem? are other countries running their food industry in the same way as us or does the US already control them too? how did Oprah win the fight against these monster food lawyers?
If nothing else, after seeing this video, I want to do MORE than just buy local and/or organic, I want to speak up and speak out against these monopolies and the politicians who support them - why aren't they considered monopolies!?! I like cheap stuff, predictability, and consistency just as much as the next person, but people have to use their head and ask, "at what cost?" In this case, the cost is great - it's not just the environment, the animals, or our kids future, it's OUR LIVES at stake too - and that should appeal to even the most selfish individual.
A must see movie March 15, 2010
H. Packiam
Food Inc is a must see for every American concerned about food. The information brought forth has caused my family and I to make some major changes in where we buy our food.
Everyone must see this movie!!! March 15, 2010
M. Kendell
I watched this movie with my family and I was saddened and horrified by the state of industrial farming. I want to buy this movie for everyone I know! We really do vote with our grocery store purchases and we can change things, but it takes watching a movie like this, doing your homework, and be willing to face what you have been putting in your body. Not to mention the corrupt organizations that WE support by buying food that come from feed lots and industrial farms. Watch this movie... ESPECIALLY if you have kids.
Only buy if you are interested in better health March 14, 2010
Sandy amin
This movie is eye opening and revealing to anyone who wants to know from where their food comes. I do. Many do not. Most of my family does not. I understand. But like Oprah says, "When you know better, you do better." This is why many do not want to know. But that attitude is what is killing us and our children. Although, you may not want to know for your own person, what about our kids? What are you teaching your own child? Nothing is as important as what we put in our bodies for nourishment. So, what is your excuse now?
 Unbelievable that so many bought into this garbage March 13, 2010
Mr. Michael J. Dillon (Chicago, IL)
1 out of 14 found this review helpful
It is amazing to me that this has so many 5 star ratings. Can you not see through this bologna? Anything as one sided as this movie cannot hold any redeeming social value; it is not a documentary, it is a political statement against corporations and pro-union - nothing more. Poor man being sued by Monsanto for cleaning seeds; sounds so innocent doesn't it? Problem is, Monsanto owned those seeds not the man who was sued and Monsanto tried to work it out with him ahead of time and he wouldn't stop what he was doing - oh, but the movie didn't mention that did it? Every movie like this has some kernel (pun intended) of truth but in leaving out so much of the truth it is nothing more than a lie.
I would worry less about the food you eat and stop trying to digest this load of B.S. I remember the comment that some time in the past, turn of the century I believe, that the average US Farmer fed 6 people (maybe 6 families). If that were true today, we would not have enough food to feed ourselves, let alone the world. The starving nations would be even worse off than they are.
Some of the stuff I did find credible was pertaining to the US Government not providing proper oversight and the corruption between corporations and Govt employees charged with protecting the public. To be honest however; this is true of many branches of government and we really do need a house cleaning (OK, we had one last year, looks like we need another one.)
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