Food, Inc. (2008)

An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.

Director:

Robert Kenner

Writers:

Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein

Stars:

Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser, Richard Lobb

Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 19 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Eric Schlosser	...	Himself - Author, 'Fast Food Nation'
Richard Lobb	...	Himself - National Chicken Council
Vince Edwards	...	Himself - Tyson Grower
Carole Morison	...	Herself - Perdue Grower
Michael Pollan	...	Himself - Author, 'The Omnivore's Dilemma'
Troy Roush	...	Himself - Vice President, American Corn Growers Association
Larry Johnson	...	Himself - Center for Crops Utilization Research, Iowa State University
Allen Trenkle	...	Himself - Ruminant Nutrition Expert, Iowa State University
Barbara Kowalcyk	...	Herself - Food Safety Advocate
Patricia Buck	...	Herself - Food Safety Advocate, Barbara's Mom
Diana DeGette	...	Herself - Representative, Colorado
Phil English	...	Himself - Representative - Pennsylvania, Co-Sponsor of Kevin's Law
Eldon Roth	...	Himself - Founder of BPI
Maria Andrea Gonzalez	...	Herself - Mother
Rosa Soto	...	Herself - California Center for Public Health Advocacy

Storyline

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 ...

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Plot Keywords:

food | food industry | vegan | farming | gluttony | 

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Taglines:

Hungry For Change?

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Genres:

Documentary

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for some thematic material and disturbing images

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [United States]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

31 July 2009 (USA)

Also Known As:

P.O.V. Food, Inc. episode #23.1

Filming Locations:

Kentucky, USA

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$60,513, 14 June 2009, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$4,417,124, 20 November 2009

Company Credits

Production Co:

Magnolia Pictures,Participant Media,River Road Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

On the Region 1 DVD packaging, the UPC bar-code on the cow is different from the one shown on the theatrical poster. The poster bar-code is 4-73762-52481-6-(18). The bar-code on the Region 1 DVD packaging is the same as the DVD's actual product bar-code on the back cover: 8-76964-00216-5. As of 2017, he bar-code used on the poster is not an active code.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Narrator: The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000.

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Connections

Featured in 50 Documentaries to See Before You Die: Episode 4 (2011)

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Soundtracks

This Land Is Your Land
Words & Music by Woody Guthrie
Published by TRO - Ludlow Music, Inc. (BMI)
Performed by Bruce Springsteen
Courtesy of Columbia Records
By arrangement with SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

User Reviews

just the facts!

This documentary does a good job educating the consumers on how food is produced,packed and marketed in U.S nowadays. By going back repeatedly to how it was before it shows us how much it has evolved and also the effects of those drastic changes on food prices, American eating habits and ultimately on their health. The movie does all that without ever going over the top or becoming apocalyptic, which seems to be a trend for these type of movies nowadays,it does call out the greedy mega food corporation and the state officials for not arming the regulatory agencies better but the consumers are also at fault here for not informing themselves enough on the content of the products in order to choose what's best for their health not just for their wallet.