Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan
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 ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 3, 2009
Stats: 2,007 reviews
Not a vegetarian message movie specifically, since Pollan wrote "The Omnivore's Dilemma." Pollan and Schlosser being the two main commentators on America's food industry for the purposes of this doc. The movie is anti-big corporations, anti-food industry status quo, and anti-sc...( read more)
This new documentary featuring Eric Schlosser ("Fast Food Nation") and Michael Pollan ("The Omnivore's Dilemma") attempts to provide insight into various areas of our food distribution system and where everything went so horribly wrong. An informative, shocking and very necessary...( read more)
A critical documentary that will prove to be increasingly more important in years to come. This may be one of the most defining issues of our future.
Entertaing and informative documentary that tries to tackle too much. This should have been a mini series rather than a 2 hr doc. Everytime they would get into a subject they would tap the surface then move on to the next subject. I do recommend it, because it is eye opening. I a...( read more)
Great, so what should we eat? Actually I already knew much about this, but letting the public does not help find a solution, since like it explains there are some 5 mayor corporations that control everything and to budget on those companies would mean for everyone to change thei...( read more)
Food, Inc. tackles a vast problem, but sends us home with glimmers of hope. full review
If you're planning on seeing Food, Inc. as a date movie, make sure you have dinner beforehand. full review
It's not a pretty picture. But Food, Inc. is an essential one. full review
This review doesn't read one thing like a movie review. I just wanted to scare the bejesus out of you, which is what Food, Inc. did to me. full review
Trading on now-familiar gross-out tactics (images of corporate slaughterhouses and chicken sheds), the movie offers very little that food radicals don't already know. full review
Don't take another bite till you see Robert Kenner's Food, Inc., an essential, indelible documentary that is scarier than anything in the last five Saw horror shows. full review
It's the documentary equivalent of The Matrix: It shows us how we're living in a simulacrum, fed by machines run by larger machines with names like Monsanto, Perdue, Tyson, and the handful of other co... full review
This stunning and vitally important doc pointedly shows how food industry lobbyists and lawyers basically took over the government agencies in charge of policing the very companies for whom they worked. full review
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