An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.
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- 7 wins & 20 nominations total
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- TriviaOn the Region 1 DVD packaging, the UPC bar-code on the cow is different from the one shown on the theatrical poster. The bar-code on the poster is 4-73762-52481-6-(18). The bar-code on the Region 1 DVD packaging is 8-76964-00216-5 : the same bar-code that appears on the back cover of the DVD. As of 2022, the bar-code used on the poster is not an active code.
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Michael Pollan: There are no seasons in the American supermarket. Now there are tomatoes all year round, grown halfway around the world, picked when it was green, and ripened with ethylene gas. Although it looks like a tomato, it's kind of a notional tomato. I mean, it's the idea of a tomato.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Durch die Nacht mit...: Tim Raue und Dave Arnold (2009)
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Written by Nancy Peterson
Performed by Great American Swing Band
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Careful With That Burger, Eugene
With family run farms pretty much a thing of the past, institutional farming has pretty much taken over,and the dim,dark & dismal effects are omnipresent. There is an epidemic of food borne illness,due to cattle being exposed to over use of steroids to make them grow fatter, faster (and this also includes chickens,pigs,etc.),not to mention GMO corn,grains,etc. Robert Kenner's eye opening film, 'Food,Inc.' manages to shine at least some light on some pretty unethical practices that are being undertaken by corporate owned & managed farms. The likes of Eric Schlosser (author of 'Fast Food Nation',which was made into a semi fictional film a few years back)is featured in interviews,along with Michael Pollan. Many fingers are pointed at guilty parties doing the dirty deeds of the farming industry,along with some pretty unpleasant footage of unethical practices (i.e. abuse of farm animals, although this film doesn't take up any kind of vegetarian/vegan agenda of it's own---the viewer can make up their own mind just what they prefer to eat). Much to my surprise,there is little discussion of the mad cow disease epidemic (or,BSE)from a few years back (only a passing reference). Rated PG by the MPAA,this film contains some unpleasant footage of animal abuse,as well as a rude word,or two. Okay for older children who care about what's on their plate for breakfast,lunch or dinner.
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- P.O.V. Food, Inc. episode #23.1
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- Gross US & Canada
- $4,417,674
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $60,513
- Jun 14, 2009
- Gross worldwide
- $4,606,199
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1
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