Food, Inc. [Blu-ray] | ![Food, Inc. [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LqDGIE6FL._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Robert Kenner
Actors: Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser, Gary Hirschberg, Joe Salatin
Studio: Magnolia Home Entertainment
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Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 91 Minutes
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: 10260
UPC: 876964002608
EAN: 0876964002608
ASIN: B002LBKDYE
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: November 3, 2009 (New: Last 30 Days)
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| • | 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 government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farm |
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Studio: Magnolia Pict Hm Ent Release Date: 11/03/2009 Run time: 92 minutes Rating: Pg13
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For most Americans, the ideal meal is fast, cheap, and tasty. Food, Inc. examines the costs of putting value and convenience over nutrition and environmental impact. Director Robert Kenner explores the subject from all angles, talking to authors, advocates, farmers, and CEOs, like co-producer Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma), Gary Hirschberg (Stonyfield Farms), and Barbara Kowalcyk, who's been lobbying for more rigorous standards since E. coli claimed the life of her two-year-old son. The filmmaker takes his camera into slaughterhouses and factory farms where chickens grow too fast to walk properly, cows eat feed pumped with toxic chemicals, and illegal immigrants risk life and limb to bring these products to market at an affordable cost. If eco-docs tends to preach to the converted, Kenner presents his findings in such an engaging fashion that Food, Inc. may well reach the very viewers who could benefit from it the most: harried workers who don't have the time or income to read every book and eat non-genetically modified produce every day. Though he covers some of the same ground as Super-Size Me and King Korn, Food Inc. presents a broader picture of the problem, and if Kenner takes an understandably tough stance on particular politicians and corporations, he's just as quick to praise those who are trying to be responsible--even Wal-Mart, which now carries organic products. That development may have more to do with economics than empathy, but the consumer still benefits, and every little bit counts. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Must watch! November 19, 2009
Jesse D. Walker (Logan, UT)
If you're like me, you know all about Michal Pollan's work, you know our current food production system is unsustainable, and yet, your food consumption habits haven't changed all that much. Little by little, I've made improvements, and it's the information gleaned from books and documentaries like this one that have caused me to make those incremental changes. Good ones. If you don't have as much of a background in food stuff, watch the movie for sure! And maybe add a few things to your reading list: The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food, Super-Size Me, Fast Food Nation, and anything else you hear about while you're learning more. There are few things in life that contribute as much to who we are as what we eat. And there are few ways that we can make as great an environmental impact as in our food purchasing decisions. Learn all you can, and choose. For your own health, and the planet's.
PASS IT ON... November 18, 2009
MsLondoncalling (Florida, USA)
Tell everyone you know, especially those you care about, to see this documentary. It really is shocking what we are being fed, and I don't mean that just in a literal sense!
For those considering buying or watching the DVD. The documentary moves at a good pace. It doesn't deliberately seek to shock you with graphic scenes, or express a bias that we should all become vegetarians. What it does do is take the veil off the packaging to reveal many ugly and hidden truths. The good thing here is that KNOWLEDGE IS POWER and our power is visible with each food item we choose to purchase.
Many thanks to the brave makers of this film. Polyface Farm--you rock!
[...]. Worth taking a look there.
 Good complient to Omnivore's Dilemma November 17, 2009
T. Garrison (Denver, CO)
I had a hard time visualizing some of the less salient parts of the book Omnivore's Dilemma, fortunately this movies takes you directly to those places in graphic detail.
Shocking November 17, 2009
K. Kirkland (Phoenix)
I have read many books on this topic, but nothing shocks you like SEEING it.
Modern factory-farming practices will make you sick to your stomach November 16, 2009
buru buru piggu (New York, NY USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a documentary that everyone in America needs to see because food safety is an issue that directly affects us all, no matter who we are or where we live. The film begins with a flyover of the American heartland, zooming out through a painting of a farm house into a stroll down the supermarket aisle, with rows upon rows of products (47,000 in an average supermarket). All neatly packaged and arranged, they present an idyllic image of pastoral life that is completely incongruent with how food is produced today. Narrator, journalist, and UC Berkeley professor Michael Pollan begins, "the way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000". Due to technological advances in mass production, mechanization, chemistry, and genetic engineering, the way food is produced now is vastly at odds with the fantasy of an agrarian America from the 30's to 50's that the food industry sells us on. A "veil" has been deliberately dropped between us and our food, because if we knew where our food came from, we wouldn't want to eat it anymore.
But ignorance is not bliss. It can literally make you sick to your stomach. If the BSE (mad cow's disease) scares and frequent reports of E. coli contamination in everything from hamburger patties to spinach to lettuce to tomatoes in the last several years haven't given you pause about the food you put on your family's dinner table and the trust you place in the companies that supply it, then you definitely need to watch this documentary. Just as recently as November 1 came reports of yet another E. coli breakout (this time from Fairbank Farms, spurring a 500,000+ pound recall, with 2 reported deaths and 11 sick). Anyone who is concerned with the health of his/her family needs to be made aware of the potential risks involved with eating the foods produced by this dangerous system.
Food today is less nourishing, less wholesome, and less safe than it was 50 or 60 years ago mainly as a result of large-scale mechanized production and factory-style agricultural practices that sacrifice quality for quantity and focus on making as much food as possible for the lowest cost (more fertilizers, more pesticides, high density feedlots, lower quality feed). We have cheaper, bigger, and faster foods and higher yields than ever before in human history, but such abundance comes at a cost to our health (increase rates of diabetes, obesity, and infection from food-borne pathogens), our land, and the dignity of private farmers and workers. Many of the foods we eat today are dangerously unsafe or unhealthy and this film explores the hidden human, health, and environmental costs of our modern industrial farming system. The topics covered include poultry, pig farming, cattle raising, corn, and being able to patent life (as Monsanto has done with seeds). Cattle, for example, are fed corn (because it is cheap and subsidized by the government), a food their bodies are not designed for, leading to dangerous build up of E. coli in their stomachs. In high density feed lots, they stand knee-deep in their own feces. Feces is everywhere and slaughtered at the rate of several thousands per hour in assembly-line slaughterhouses, it is very easy for the feces to enter the food chain. Ground beef is mixed with beef from thousands of other cows, exponentially increasing the chance of pathogen introduction. If you didn't know from recent news reports of cattle processors using ammonia to kill bacteria, now you do. Do you want to be eating ammonia in your hamburger patty?
If you are an educated food consumer, you will already know much of the information presented here from reading the numerous books on the food industry or watching such films as "Fast Food Nation" (which Eric Schlosser also produced), "Super Size Me", or PETA videos on animal abuse. This is an excellent and highly informative documentary that all consumers should watch. If there is one criticism, it's that the film tries to cover too many topics within its 90 minute runtime and sacrifices some depth for the sake of a more encompassing view of the entire food industry. It ends on a positive note, and even puts the oft-maligned Walmart in a good light, showing their buyers as being responsive to the demands of its consumers. The more we know about how our food is made, the more we can start demanding more wholesome, safer foods and changing the way these large multinational corporations operate. With the growth of organics and chains like Whole Foods and Trader Joe's, the corporations are listening.
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