Food, Inc.

Food, Inc. unveils some of the somber practices underpinning the American food industry, exploring how corporations place profits before consumer health, worker safety, and the environment. This documentary argues that industrial production methods are not only inhumane, but they are also unsustainable from an economic and environmental standpoint.

Filmmaker Robert Kenner visits farms and slaughterhouses and witnesses first-hand the disturbing conditions that prevail, such as chickens being grown so fast that they are unable to walk properly, cows eating feed laced with chemicals, and workers risking their own safety to ensure that these products are made cheaply for the market. He also interviews various players in the industry including CEOs, advocates, authors, and lobbyists.

For many people, the ideal meal is convenient, low-cost, and delicious. Food, Inc. looks into the true cost of putting price and convenience over nutritional and environmental considerations, presenting the findings in a way that is engaging, informative, and accessible to all.

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...

Magnolia Home Entertainment.

Running time - 1:33:46

Audio - English

Subtitle - English

Actors - Michael Pollan [himself] / Eric Schlosser [himself]

Director - Robert Kenner

Producers - Robert Kenner / Elise Pearlstein

Writers - Robert Kenner / Elise Pearlstein / Kim Roberts

Genres - Documentary / Independent