Movie #152........................."Food, Inc"

Movie #152 "Food, Inc" is a rock solid documentary about the food industry. Very clear, the study very thorough, gives reasons behind the changes. Here are some facts from the film that we should know: 1) we have an illusion of choice of foods -- food industry is run by about 4 main companies: Tyson, Smithfield, Monsanto, Purdue; 2) the food industry is mass produced in factories 3) corn is the main commodity and since they've been feeding corn to cattle, they get e.coli. and instead of taking them off of corn and feeding grass to them, they figure out high tech ways to cure the problem (and these ways sometimes make us sick) 4) we are now engineering our foods so they won't go stale, and we mostly use corn, which is a starch ---- the corn makes the animals fat quickly so that's why it's used. Our food industry's motto is faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper and unless that changes, we're in BIG trouble 5) obesity problem and diabetes are results of this food industry and the price of food has to do with the obesity problem --- cheaper foods have become the unhealthy ones and the ones picked first in the supermarkets 6) People who have been in charge of the testing of the food industry are owners of the big companies (thank you, Goerge Bush, for part of that) . Then, at the end of the film, they give us things we should do, so I intend to read labels more, buy food in season, buy more organic foods, and perhaps plant a garden ---- if we can ever stay in one place long enough. I highly recommend this very informative film. It's well done. But it's not for the squeamish --- tough to watch the mistreatment of animals.




Average rating: 4.172
I gave it 4 stars
Food, Inc.
(2008) PG
Drawing on Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation and Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma, director Robert Kenner's Oscar-nominated documentary explores the food industry's detrimental effects on our health and environment. Kenner spotlights the men and women who are working to reform an industry rife with monopolies, questionable interpretations of laws and subsidies, political ties and rising rates of E. coli outbreaks.