Food, Inc. (2008)

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• Sam B

  
  Important. Scary. Effective. Food, Inc. is a documentary that lives up to its hype. It has a very clear message: The food industry is bad, and then it goes on to tell and show, in full view, how and why this is so. It may be a bit disorganized (after all, it has a lot to cover, from… More
  Important. Scary. Effective. Food, Inc. is a documentary that lives up to its hype. It has a very clear message: The food industry is bad, and then it goes on to tell and show, in full view, how and why this is so. It may be a bit disorganized (after all, it has a lot to cover, from seeds to cattle), and its also hard to tell how much of the information is exaggerated in order to scare audiences into taking action, but it is obvious that this film comes from a good place and has a noble goal. The film deserves to be watched based on that fact alone.

• Unknown H

  
  This documentary is one that has stayed with me after viewing it, unlike many of its kind. It documents the true cost of mass produced food and gives you, the consumer, facts you never even thought you needed to know. As someone who did not eat meat for three years and now does, this… More
  This documentary is one that has stayed with me after viewing it, unlike many of its kind. It documents the true cost of mass produced food and gives you, the consumer, facts you never even thought you needed to know. As someone who did not eat meat for three years and now does, this film definitely had me questioning everything that I not only purchase but eat. It made a fool of everyone I know and whatever you think you know about mass production, this movie sets the wrongs to right. A truly inspirational and precise documentary about human kind in general and the price we put on profit. Exceptional.

• Pedro H

  
  <i>You'll never look at dinner the same way again </i> <b>Interesting</b> Like most documentaries; which I have become more fond of lately, they are almost always very intresting. Food Inc. is a game changer, like its tagline dictates "You'll… More
  <i>You'll never look at dinner the same way again </i> <b>Interesting</b> Like most documentaries; which I have become more fond of lately, they are almost always very intresting. Food Inc. is a game changer, like its tagline dictates "You'll never look at dinner the same way again " and to be honest this comes out to be quite true. The documentary is about the enigma and the corruption behind fast food, and food itself. It follows the different processes that our food undergoes and the <b> disgusting </b> corruption that is behind it. I think everyone should give Food Inc. a chance, its a movie that has lots to tell, its very interesting, and it gives out a great lesson and changes the way you will eventually look at things. I liked it and I think many people will like it too. <u>Narrator:</u> <i>The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000</i>

• Coxxie M

  
  im sympathetic to things that are unfortunate and that effect the majority of my country but i've been eating shit for too long to stop eating shit now. and apparently, the shit i eat has traces of shit in it. im not pleased by this but i will continue to eat my shit covered… More
  im sympathetic to things that are unfortunate and that effect the majority of my country but i've been eating shit for too long to stop eating shit now. and apparently, the shit i eat has traces of shit in it. im not pleased by this but i will continue to eat my shit covered shit.

• Alexander D

  
  An upsetting, sometimes even disturbing film about how food is processed. If you are a docu-craver, a fast-food junkie, an avid learner, an education-maniac, a person in need for some information about how chicken nuggets and hamburgers at fast food "restaurants" come to be… More
  An upsetting, sometimes even disturbing film about how food is processed. If you are a docu-craver, a fast-food junkie, an avid learner, an education-maniac, a person in need for some information about how chicken nuggets and hamburgers at fast food "restaurants" come to be there; if you are a person who needs to see something that will change your personal, ultra-general perspective on your own dinner...this is an absolutely must-see for you.

• Manu G

  
  You'll never look at dinner the same way again Very important information and highly true, everyone should at least recommend this film to someone and do there part to contribute to the food industry that directly affects us and our family members. The current method of raw… More
  You'll never look at dinner the same way again Very important information and highly true, everyone should at least recommend this film to someone and do there part to contribute to the food industry that directly affects us and our family members. The current method of raw food production is largely a response to the growth of the fast food industry since the 1950s. The production of food overall has more drastically changed since that time than the several thousand years prior. Controlled primarily by a handful of multinational corporations, the global food production business - with an emphasis on the business - has as its unwritten goals production of large quantities of food at low direct inputs (most often subsidized) resulting in enormous profits, which in turn results in greater control of the global supply of food sources within these few companies. Health and safety (of the food itself, of the animals produced themselves, of the workers on the assembly lines, and of the consumers actually eating the food) are often overlooked by the companies, and are often overlooked by government in an effort to provide cheap food regardless of these negative consequences. Many of the changes are based on advancements in science and technology, but often have negative side effects. The answer that the companies have come up with is to throw more science at the problems to bandage the issues but not the root causes. The global food supply may be in crisis with lack of biodiversity, but can be changed on the demand side of the equation.

• Veronique K

  
  food, inc elaborates on great many aspects of why the instant food and the meat you purchase in the supermarket are corruptive for health when it comes to their problematic process of their manifacturing. (plainly, mcdonald sucks. food colborations stink!) if you're not the… More
  food, inc elaborates on great many aspects of why the instant food and the meat you purchase in the supermarket are corruptive for health when it comes to their problematic process of their manifacturing. (plainly, mcdonald sucks. food colborations stink!) if you're not the patient type who is willing to sit through two hours to be enlightened, here's my briefing: american government encourages the inland farmers to harvest corn-fields, and the corns are sent to be grinded into powders to feed chickens, bigs, cows and fish just to save more pennies while replying heavily on the nation-wide vehicle-transmittings. this revoluntionizes the manufacturing methods of food-processing because those land-animals used to be herded in the outdoors for grass-eating, now they're confined in claustrophobic spaces like factories, sent in a narrowed area to get pressed into efficient death. (quicker to kill more) one problem is that cow only eats grass and germs would be induced within cow's body if it's not fed right. and secondly, lots of animals are frightened into defication while they're being slaughtered, and imagine how much excrements have been stainted on their corporses which you feast daily. thirdly, the best way the manufacturer could produce when it comes to erasing the germs on the beef is to dip the meat in chemical water then sealed in paper-boxes. of course, they're also issues like the malicious monopolization of the insecticide when it comes to harvest the crops. due to the intellectual patent on live plants and animals, farmers have to use insecticide to grow those crops even when they don't want to out of moral concerns for the consumers' health. okay, if you really wish to know more in details, just rent the movie, which is surely more eloquent than me. i have two points of doubts over this. firstly, i think people who really care about the well-being of animals won't watch this and they surely won't eat meat. and it's kinda mawkish to emphasize over the cruelty on animals. but the point is how this process of making food could be damaging to human health, which is prior to animal health. secondly, in the ending, it advocates you to only eat and buy organic food. as a matter of fact, there're also false organic-food sellers who simply pastes the tag of "organic food" on the regularly made food just to make a dough of people who believe in this vegatarian ideology. (becasue i met one before!)...so organic food could also have the chance of being counterfeit. my comment after this movie is: GEE, AMERICA IS JUST AS CRAPPY AS CHINA! mainland china has been notorious for having the corrupted poisonous food in its private market, and i even saw an illustration of how a restauranteer shapes rats into chickens, added with proper seasonings, customers won't even know the differences without realizing they're gnawing a piece of RAT(gross)..but those people are just small family-owned private sellers who are willinh to ignore their conscience just to make a quick buck and get a bit farther from extreme poverty. because they're two bit small-timers, their inside stories are exposed quickly and people all are warned of the rotten food in mainland china...BUT the scary thing about america's corrupted food is those manufacturers are powerful elites who have enough money, influence and groups of lawyers to whitewash themselves and justify their deeds of evils, systematically breached through legal briberies with governmental bureaucrats. in other words, CHINA'S FOOD-SELLER IS THE SMALL-TIME ANARCHY WHILE AMERICA IS THE BIG-SCALE ORGANIZED CRIME-FACTORY. which is scarier? okay, to me, the latter, because you would be dealing with orgainzed evil who utilizes the advertisings to produce an enforced ideology within your head, so flashy, so glamourous that you won't even care to take a second look at what you're eating. to me, that's more evil. america is just as awful as china, who produces rotten food, yes, who has sweat factories, yes, who mistreats human rights, yes. BUT who says america isn't the same? of course, america has much more glamourous coat to shield away the rots. (whatever some people in china have done, and they've earned the notorious publicity they deserve! and the big-timers are hidding under the shadows smirking with complacency) when it comes to human rights, the documentary also mentions how america defeated mexico's corn-manufacturers who cannot beat america's vast industrialization on agricultural processings. thus america's triumph over mexico creates lots of un-employed mexicans who illegally immigrate to america as slaves in slaughter-houses. see how much respects it has for human rights? or human right is only a term invented for arian americans? or put it in a more objective way without racial discrimations, RICH AMERICANS. okay, i think i'm being a bit too cynical here, better stop.

• Kristijonas F

  
  Offering a shocking look at how most of the food is produced and marketed in the U.S., Food, Inc. is eye-opening in its uncompromising exposure of the corporate greed and federal corruption that fuel the immoral and illegal functions of the bloated and money-grubbing food industry.… More
  Offering a shocking look at how most of the food is produced and marketed in the U.S., Food, Inc. is eye-opening in its uncompromising exposure of the corporate greed and federal corruption that fuel the immoral and illegal functions of the bloated and money-grubbing food industry. You may not like what you see - but you should watch it anyway.

• Mike S

  
  Deep-going and informative, yet appalling in content. This is one of those documentaries that I'd probably have been better off not watching. On one hand it deserves praise for all the frightening truths it's brought to light about the food industry. But on the other it… More
  Deep-going and informative, yet appalling in content. This is one of those documentaries that I'd probably have been better off not watching. On one hand it deserves praise for all the frightening truths it's brought to light about the food industry. But on the other it invites you to a world I'd be happier not knowing. I won't be looking at supermarket items the same way again, that's for sure. In any case, it's a compelling and visually interesting documentary. Beautiful in some scenes, stomach-revolting in others. But altogether a relevant piece of film-making, that entertains and shocks at the same time. Definitely a must-see, provided that you're ready for all the facts that it unveils without reservation.

• Jay H

  
  Documentarian Robert Kenner tackles his thesis, the notion that food conglomerates are harming America, in a clever manner here. A handful of ten-minute-long mini-documentaries make up the whole of the film, each one showing off a new, supposedly horrifying misdeed of the food… More
  Documentarian Robert Kenner tackles his thesis, the notion that food conglomerates are harming America, in a clever manner here. A handful of ten-minute-long mini-documentaries make up the whole of the film, each one showing off a new, supposedly horrifying misdeed of the food industry. The idea is that even if the viewer isn't shocked and outraged by everything shown, there will likely be at least one or two parts that will get the viewer riled up. And I won't deny that there were some fairly compelling stretches of the film. One important question, however, looms over the film the whole time, remaining unanswered the whole way through. How would we survive without the industry's mass production of food? The film tells us at one point that at the beginning of the 20th century, an average farmer could feed "six or eight people," but that now, the average farmer can feed 126 people. That's a bad thing? To keep up with our rapidly growing population, it seems to me that the largeness of the food industry is necessary if we Americans wish to keep our leisurely lifestyle. When asked how they would keep up with consumer demand if they were the only food providers, one organic farmer, one of the "good guys" of the film, tells us, "We're very ingenious people. We'll deliver." Yeah. That's assuring. In the end, when we take a look back at our food system as a whole in this country, we can't deny that compared to other countries in the world, we've got it pretty damn good. Films like this only serve to create an unnecessary stir about an issue that, on a macro level, isn't really an issue.

• Alexis N

  
  Holy Hell, this movie was disturbing and scary. It walks you through how messed up our whole food industry is. Kinda makes you feel helpless. I don't know how we can change anything with out spending what little money we have on local and organic food. I guess until everyone is… More
  Holy Hell, this movie was disturbing and scary. It walks you through how messed up our whole food industry is. Kinda makes you feel helpless. I don't know how we can change anything with out spending what little money we have on local and organic food. I guess until everyone is local or organic the prices for these things aren't going to get competitive. Change doesn't come cheap, but it has to come.

• Ginny  

  
  Fat chickens. Fat chickens. Moo Poo. Enough to get you all paranoid with what you eat.

• Gordon A

  
  Interesting doc which covers familiar but worthwhile ground effectively.

• Richard C

  
  B

• Michael G

  
  Food, Inc is every bit as informative and important as it is upsetting. Unlike most documentaries along the lines of this one, it doesn't really seem to end on an up note but the general hopelessness you'll feel throughout this documentary will prepare you for that.

• Jason L

  
  This movie will leave you in chills, unlike the ones you get from horror films. Its an insightful watch, and you'll never look at food the same way again.

• Luke B

  
  Food, Inc. presents a world where food has become business. It's quicker and cheaper to eat unhealthy processed food, than it is to eat natural food. Food is produced on a production line and genetic enhancements to natural resources has allowed companies to patent their… More
  Food, Inc. presents a world where food has become business. It's quicker and cheaper to eat unhealthy processed food, than it is to eat natural food. Food is produced on a production line and genetic enhancements to natural resources has allowed companies to patent their products. It's scary and familiar, but Food, Inc. brings together a number of topics concerning food that will hopefully make a difference. It doesn't ignore the fact that food is business, but it shows how the never ending chase for profits can result in health risks of a very severe nature. This isn't some treehugging animal loving film. It's mainly a film about humanity and how corporations mistreat the environment, nature, their workers and the animals.It may be a little one-sided, but only because the big corporations refuse to take part. This could be some kind of terrifying futuristic world, unfortunately it's all too real.

• Nate Z

  
  Food Inc. is informative and occasionally jarring, but unless you have no common sense and/or political acumen, nothing here should seem like much of a surprise. The food industry, like most, is about finding faster, cheaper ways to turn higher profits, so it seems natural that the… More
  Food Inc. is informative and occasionally jarring, but unless you have no common sense and/or political acumen, nothing here should seem like much of a surprise. The food industry, like most, is about finding faster, cheaper ways to turn higher profits, so it seems natural that the fast-food style system would be integrated into industrial factories. Our current eating lifestyle as a nation is unhealthy and heading toward disaster. But this is old news. Food Inc. makes a mostly compelling case except when it comes to organics. An organic farmer addresses the argument that worldwide organic farming cold never feed enough people, and tosses it aside as ?specious.? I?m sorry, global hunger is not a ?specious? argument, and Food Inc. glosses over the facts that organic farming requires a massive amount more land to produce crops, it only uses natural fertilizer which means its more prone to breaks of E. Coli, and, most damning, is more prone to infection because they only use natural pesticides, ignoring decades of scientific improvement, which naturally makes their crops more prone to being wiped out by insects. Which billion people get to be told their hunger doesn?t matter? Organic food as an alternative choice is fine; even Wal-Mart sees a demand for it and stocks organic foods. The film?s most interesting section is when giant food companies control a market and squeeze the legal system to keep it that way, like Monsanto?s near 90 percent hold on soy beans. They hire former military men to spy on farmers and scare them. They engage in frivolous lawsuits because they can afford the legal fees, but a poor farmer can?t, so they admit guilt and settle. The Monsanto dismantling of family farms is scary, way scarier than the hidden camera footage of animals at a slaughterhouse (it?s sad, I?m not a monster, but as long as it's humane, does a cow really care how it dies?). Food Inc. is an interesting, galvanizing little documentary that makes several good, albeit familiar, points. Just try not to think too much when it argues that we need to go backwards when it comes to scientific and technological advancement, especially when it comes to combating global hunger. Nate?s Grade: B

• Derek A

  
  <i>Food Inc</i> 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.<p>Although… More
  <i>Food Inc</i> 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.<p>Although the film was eye-opening, a lot of the material was stuff I had heard before. The film's pace tended to drag as it seemed to deviate off into tangents. There were some points during the film that I was questioning it's credibility as it seemed the director was just trying to create some "filler" material. But overall, it's a nice history lesson, but it's still a boring educational experience. And beware, you do see baby chickens killed at the slaughter house if you're a little weak in the stomach about those sort of things.

• Jake .

  
  Pretty impressive documentary. I personally find that to be one genre that just generally isn't that intersting. The people involved obviously felt strongly about the topic, but they were not irritating about. I honestly thought I was going to throw up in a couple parts though.… More
  Pretty impressive documentary. I personally find that to be one genre that just generally isn't that intersting. The people involved obviously felt strongly about the topic, but they were not irritating about. I honestly thought I was going to throw up in a couple parts though. The only thing I did not like, is that is its very provogative, but I do not think it will effect people. They even state during the film that people are so detatched from everything food related that nothing will change. I think that is completely the case. Even watching something brilliant like Food Inc. is not enough. There are certainly disturbing images and stories there, but its still not personal enough to make a differance. Still, its a well-done, and fasniting documentary to watch!

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