Food, Inc.

Name: Food, Inc.
Genre: Documentary
Released: June 12, 2009
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 80
Cast: Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan

2009

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: June 12, 2009 | PG

Starring: Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan

Summary: 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 profitIn 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 farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of e coli--the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farm's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joe Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising -- and often shocking truths -- about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here. (Magnolia Pictures)… Expand

Director: Robert Kenner

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: PG

Runtime: 94 min

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Owen Gleiberman

Food, Inc. is hard to shake, because days after you've seen it, you may find yourself eating something -- a cookie, a piece of poultry, cereal out of the box, a perfectly round waxen tomato -- and you'll realize that you have virtually no idea what it actually is. Read full review

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Steven Rea

It's not a pretty picture. But Food, Inc. is an essential one. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

An engaging and often wrenching film, Food, Inc. covers a wide range of material, including the horrific, the humorous and the exemplary. Read full review

Empire Phil Wilding

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

Wesley Morris

The whole thing is as subtle as a watermelon in a bowl of Cheerios but necessary, nonetheless. Read full review

Shawn Levy

Kenner mounts it all with a pleasingly fluent and varied style, which makes it more or less easy to absorb his arguments, even if they're familiar from other books and movies and are presented with unopposed certainty. Read full review

Kyle Smith

The movie offers very little that food radicals don't already know. Read full review

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TomG.

Aug 12, 2009

Fantastic movie, a must see!

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MMMM

Dec 23, 2009

Excellent yet disturbing look at the food industry - makes you question more how your food got to your plate, and makes you want to do something to improve it. I lost five pounds after watching it and eating more natural foods - I called it the "Food Inc" diet.

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Doehl

Mar 25, 2012

Food, Inc. provides an atmosphere of horror because of simply a no-holds-barred reporting style that refuses to give out to corporate demands or audience fright, but it does manage to provide a happy ending.

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DebbieD.

Jun 26, 2009

I've got religion as they say, since I'm a new convert to veganism. I was very excited to see this movie, and I only wish it was required viewing for everyone who eats food (or an unreasonable facsimile thereof).

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MovieGuys

May 5, 2014

Food, Inc. is really an eye-opening documentary about the food industry. It "lifts the veil", as the film phrases it, into the world of corruption, hiding, and clever trickery in packaging and advertising that these companies are involved in. We get a closer look at what were eating, whereFood, Inc. is really an eye-opening documentary about the food industry. It "lifts the veil", as the film phrases it, into the world of corruption, hiding, and clever trickery in packaging and advertising that these companies are involved in. We get a closer look at what were eating, where it's coming from, and how it's made, and the results are all too shocking. This is exploitation filmmaking, except for all the right reasons. Maybe the food industry needed this; maybe it was about time someone stepped up to the plate. At times, this film can be more scary and nail-biting than the average horror flick, the difference being that this one uses the truth as its most powerful weapon.… Expand

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JayH.

Oct 28, 2009

Eye opening documentary is extremely informative and very well researched. It can be very disturbing but at least it

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AGK

Jan 4, 2017

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This movie doesn't put much on the table that we don't know already. When it's not droning on about how bad food is, it's demonising corn, rambling about global warming and it's a horrid movie for what it's supposed to be.… Expand

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