Food Inc. – the movie

It’s the season of gluttony where I live. Perhaps we need rent this movie to slow the gorge.

Food, Inc. is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Kenner.

The film examines large-scale agricultural food production in the United States, concluding that the meat and vegetables produced by this type of economic enterprise have many hidden costs and are unhealthy and environmentally-harmful.

The film is narrated by Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, two long-time critics of the industrial production of food.[ The documentary generated extensive controversy in that it was heavily criticized by large American corporations engaged in industrial food production. …

Wikipedia

Excellent. Scary. Recommended. It had an unbelievably high rating of 97% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Click PLAY or watch the trailer on YouTube.

I felt the movie was quite “balanced”. Their charges against big agriculture are indefensible.

… The producers invited on-screen rebuttals from Monsanto Company, Tyson Foods, Smithfield Foods, Perdue Farms, and other companies, but all declined the invitation. …

official movie website

companion book – Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food Is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer—And What You Can Do About It

Related posts:

Fast Food Nation
Super Size Me – teaching kids about fast food

3 comments ↓

#1 BB on 12.21.09 at 5:20 pm

If you’re going to show this, you should also read Fast Food Nation. Another eye opening book

#2 coach Rick on 12.21.09 at 6:20 pm

Good idea. I added links to:

• Fast Food Nation
• Super Size Me – teaching kids about fast food

#3 diana on 12.22.09 at 4:09 am

isnt it funny that TYson is a major sponser of usa gymnastics.
i wonder if they eat tyson at the ranch??

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