Movie Review: Food, Inc.
You'll be engrossed.
Doctor Recommended: Sit back and feel the fake butter-flavored genetically modified popcorn eat away at your gut
"In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has 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 farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults." - foodincmovie.com
If your picture of a modern American farm is grassy hills, happy animals meandering in the pasture, and a busy farmer working with his family, you need to watch this movie. See the inside of our modern American food industry, operating much more like a factory than a farm. Scratch that - they are factories.
No happy cows roaming free in grassy meadows here. Picture thousands of cattle crowded in feeding pens being fattened for slaughter, creating a river of excrement that is considered toxic sludge. Picture thousands of chickens in one enormous dark barn practically living on top of one another; genetically modified and hormone injected so their delicious breasts grow so large that their legs can hardly support them. Do you smell something? These animals live on antibiotics to keep them growing and help keep them alive during this increasingly accelerated unnatural growing process - though they don't all make it in this stressful factory farming environment.
"In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has 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 farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults." - foodincmovie.com
If your picture of a modern American farm is grassy hills, happy animals meandering in the pasture, and a busy farmer working with his family, you need to watch this movie. See the inside of our modern American food industry, operating much more like a factory than a farm. Scratch that - they are factories.
No happy cows roaming free in grassy meadows here. Picture thousands of cattle crowded in feeding pens being fattened for slaughter, creating a river of excrement that is considered toxic sludge. Picture thousands of chickens in one enormous dark barn practically living on top of one another; genetically modified and hormone injected so their delicious breasts grow so large that their legs can hardly support them. Do you smell something? These animals live on antibiotics to keep them growing and help keep them alive during this increasingly accelerated unnatural growing process - though they don't all make it in this stressful factory farming environment.
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Learn how these animals make their way to only a handful of processing factories to be slaughtered and prepared for sale. What do you get when you add a hundred cows to an antibacterial cake? A hamburger patty...yum. Don't forget to inject that chicken breast with salt water so it weighs more at the store and sells for a higher price.
Food, Inc. takes viewers from the worst of modern factory farming...to the idealistic small local farm raising animals on pasture without chemicals. It's refreshing to see how animals and crops can be raised in a way that avoids the increasingly harmful (and disgusting) effects of modern farming. This movie shows you the best and the worst of farming. If you need motivation to choose healthier foods, this movie will provide it. |
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