In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on America's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of US regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.
The 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, herbicide-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, In Defence of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joel 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.
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Eat a meal before watching Food, Inc., as you won’t be eating for several days afterwards. It is a sad truth that much of the North American food system is unappetizing and, frankly, more than a little grotesque. Food, Inc., directed by Robert Kenner and co-produced by Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser, is the latest food expose to hit the mass market.
The 93-minute documentary is part Our Daily Bread, with a dash of The World According to Monsanto and a liberal mixing of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan.
The result is a haunting documentary look into the North American food system - one of the most corporate controlled, unhealthiest, cruellest food systems on the planet.
These images of smiling farmers, fields of wheat, hens and their chicks, with cows peacefully grazing in fields actually hides the reality of how a handful of multi-national corporations now control the majority of North American food production.
Director Robert Kenner exposes the highly mechanized underbelly that is largely hidden from the American consumer with the consent of the American government’s regulatory agencies, the USDA and FDA.
The corporate food industry has a lot to hide.
Today, there are chickens fed antibiotics and raised in the dark, grown from egg to boneless meat in the supermarket in 48 days. This is twice as fast as 50 years ago and the chickens are now twice as big, with a growth rate four times as fast.
There are no no seasons in the supermarket anymore, and no bones in the meat department. Hamburgers have E. coli. Soy and corn are patented and owned by the world’s largest genetically modified organism company in the world– Monsanto. Farmers are persecuted and sued for accidentally infringing on Monsanto’s seed “rights”. More than 70% of processed foods on American shelves contain genetically modified ingredients. Meat and milk from cloned animals will soon be on American food shelves. Cheap subsidized genetically modified corn is fed to cows, chickens and even farmed salmon. More than 30% of America’s land base is planted with corn.
The industrialized food system is always looking for ways to increase efficiency which leads to higher profits, but each increase in efficiency has consequences –chickens that can no longer walk, beef with E. coli, hamburger filler washed in ammonia, irradiated lettuce, tasteless vegetables grown with heavy applications of pesticide and fertilizers so they can be made available year round.
These grim facts are only one part of the modern day American food story. Health related effects of the industrialized American diet are becoming increasingly serious. The biggest indicator of obesity in the United States is poverty and fully 1/3 of Americans born after 2000 will have early onset diabetes. One half of minorities will contract diabetes.
Food, Inc.’s hard hitting expose of America’s food system is peppered with interviews with some of the leading food experts in the world including Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, along with Stonyfield Farms' Gary Hirschberg and Polyface Farms' Joe Salatin. Interviews with other people affected by the industrialized food system include chicken farmer Carole Morison, who lost her contract to produce chickens because she refused to switch to the windowless, dark barns where the majority of industrialized meat chickens are raised, seed cleaner Moe Parr who was forced to settle with Monsanto rather than face bankruptcy and food safety advocate Barbara Kowalcyk whose 2 1/2 year old child Kevin died from E. coli.
Food Inc is a valuable insight into the U.S Food Industry. It illustrates how large corporations controlling our food source often put profit before health. This expose' is well worth the watch, not just for the nutritionally minded but for anyone and everyone! You may think twice about what you eat after watching this.
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