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Food, Inc.

  • 20082008
  • PGPG
  • 1h 34m
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7.8/10
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Food, Inc. (2008)
An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry and its trickle-down effects on the country's farmers and the health of its citizens.
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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.
IMDb RATING
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51K
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    • Robert Kenner
    • Robert Kenner
    • Elise Pearlstein
    • Kim Roberts
  • Stars
    • Michael Pollan
    • Eric Schlosser
    • Richard Lobb
    • Robert Kenner
    • Robert Kenner
    • Elise Pearlstein
    • Kim Roberts
  • Stars
    • Michael Pollan
    • Eric Schlosser
    • Richard Lobb
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    • 200User reviews
    • 116Critic reviews
    • 80Metascore
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar

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    Michael Pollan
    Michael Pollan
    • Self - Author, 'The Omnivore's Dilemma'
    Eric Schlosser
    Eric Schlosser
    • Self - Author, 'Fast Food Nation'
    Richard Lobb
    • Self - National Chicken Council
    Vince Edwards
    Vince Edwards
    • Self - Tyson Grower
    Carole Morison
    Carole Morison
    • Self - Perdue Grower
    Troy Roush
    • Self - Vice President, American Corn Growers Association
    Larry Johnson
    • Self - Center for Crops Utilization Research, Iowa State University
    Allen Trenkle
    • Self - Ruminant Nutrition Expert, Iowa State University
    Barbara Kowalcyk
    Barbara Kowalcyk
    • Self - Food Safety Advocate
    Patricia Buck
    • Self - Food Safety Advocate, Barbara's Mom
    Diana DeGette
    • Self - Representative, Colorado
    Phil English
    • Self - Representative - Pennsylvania, Co-Sponsor of Kevin's Law
    Eldon Roth
    • Self - Founder of BPI
    Maria Andrea Gonzalez
    • Self - Mother
    Rosa Soto
    • Self - California Center for Public Health Advocacy
    Joel Salatin
    Joel Salatin
    • Self - Polyface Farms Owner
    Eduardo Peña
    • Self - Union Organizer
    Gary Hirshberg
    • Self - CEO, Stonyfield Farm
      • Robert Kenner
      • Robert Kenner
      • Elise Pearlstein
      • Kim Roberts
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    • 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 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.
    • Quotes

      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.

    • Connections
      Featured in Durch die Nacht mit...: Tim Raue und Dave Arnold (2009)
    • Soundtracks
      Sunny L.A.
      Written by Nancy Peterson

      Performed by Great American Swing Band

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    Food Fight
    "Faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper." A farmer describes fast food folly.

    Although I would like to call Food, Inc. a horror film, I must relax my delicate eating sensibilities to call it a disturbing documentary. Images of little chickens hanging like laundry on conveyor cables above fast-moving assembly lines and cows patiently standing knee high in feces have changed my attitude toward grilling.

    Robert Kenner's Food, Inc. isn't half the fun of a Michael Moore doc in which the infamous director savages everyone from auto execs to neocons. Kenner is more credible because he doesn't viciously pursue any one official, just the food industry itself (and McDonald's more than any other), which has become oligarchic and impersonal, endangering the quality and safety of consumers. Unlike Moore, Kenner has no sense of humor.

    Like almost all documentarians, Kenner smartly offers ways to change the barbaric methods and marketing of food. In truth too little praise is given to the food giants that have provided good nutrition and cheaper food in an amazing harvesting that can feed the world. Narrator/interviewer Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and scientist Michael Pollan (UC Berkeley) modestly present their cases for food abuse such as the demand in corporations like McDonalds for "faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper."

    On the point of treating animals with kindness, the documentary has encouraged me to consider vegetables.
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      • July 31, 2009 (United States)
      • United States
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      • English
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      • North Carolina, USA
    • Production companies
      • Magnolia Pictures
      • Participant
      • River Road Entertainment
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