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 our gov...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 3, 2009
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December 19, 2009Food Inc is an eye-opening documentary about the cruel nature of our nation's food industry. It reveals everything from how the animals are inhumanely treated and even breed, and it also shows the injustices it does to the hardworking farmers.
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July 9, 2009Not 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)
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November 21, 2009I appreciate the movie's message, but the problem is that it has too many messages. It definitely shocked me.
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June 26, 2009This 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)
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December 30, 2009I didn't want to watch this because I didn't want to know what's happening to our food. But I couldn't remain an ostrich any longer. If knowledge is power, then my new knowledge is leading me to question what I'm putting in my body. I felt like "Super-Size Me" provided the lowdow...( read more)
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December 30, 2009Admittedly im a sucker for anything that criticizes the fucking money grubbing corporations and the bullshit corrupt government etc.. so this was right up my alley! Its a fairly comprehensive look at the issues surrounding modern mass food production and its lack of transparency....( read more)
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December 28, 2009It made me wanna live on a farm but then a remembered I'm lazy. Makes you realize everything we're eating is not even close to good for us. Must see for your health.
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December 28, 2009A documentary on the dirty side of the food industry. Very informative and interesting.
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December 22, 2009A good documentary focusing on where our food comes from. Well made and worth watching.
Critic Reviews
June 26, 2009
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
June 25, 2009
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Food, Inc. tackles a vast problem, but sends us home with glimmers of hope. full review
June 19, 2009
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
If you're planning on seeing Food, Inc. as a date movie, make sure you have dinner beforehand. full review
June 18, 2009
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
It's not a pretty picture. But Food, Inc. is an essential one. full review
June 18, 2009
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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
June 12, 2009
Kyle Smith, New York Post
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
June 11, 2009
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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
June 8, 2009
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
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
May 28, 2009
Pete Hammond, Boxoffice Magazine
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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