Food, Inc.
2009 Directed by Robert Kenner
Synopsis
You'll never look at dinner the same way again.
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.
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"You'll never look at dinner the same way again"... For about half an hour. Then you'll resume your regularly scheduled program of jamming pink meat goo down your gullet because we're conditioned quite effectively to view anything transmitted to us via screens as some form of fictional entertainment, even when it's not.
I mean... Uh... If you're not going to have sex with that fine-ass cow then I will. You snooze, you looze, sleeper!
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It makes me want to become a vegetarian, but I like meat too much.
That came out wrong.
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Good and educational, but focused on the American food industry. A couple of interesting numbers: 1/3 of all kids in america will get diabetes (1/2 in minorities). There are in total 13 slaughter houses in the entire US.
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Still can't believe I am just now seeing this film. It is a very interesting, and scary doc about the food industry in America. I enjoyed the first 45 minutes or so but it got less interesting as the film wore on.
Basically there are only 5 food producers who make 80% of the food we eat. Also, we are all going to get cancer or diabetes and fucking die because any meat we eat has shit in it, and all the animals are on steroids! Oh and corn is used for fucking everything!
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Explores a monumentally important issue but has a bit of a pseudo-activist #kony2012 feel to it.
Watch King Corn for a more robust look into the historical and economic effects of corn production in the United States since the 1950s, which lies at the core of modern food production and the explosion of factory farming.
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Considering the ongoing 'horse-meat scandal' here in the UK I thought i would give this documentary a go to see how we measure up against the USA...wow...a bit of horse-meat, maybe that isn't so bad after all.
All countries are suffering from the pressure of consumer demand and intensive farming but some of the facts given out here are mind blowing - 5 main distributors and 13 slaughter houses for the WHOLE COUNTRY - throw in some corruption, disease and human rights issues and that's one big ground up meat mess.
The documentary is certainly one-sided and you have to hope things are going to get better but considering that all the major players were offered interviews and all declined, speaks volumes.
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Very stylized documentary, the graphic side of it is very interesting, and the whole subject of how we get our food is very illuminating. However I'm not quite there on the topic, I mean we do enslave a few species for our consumption and that does strike me as inherently wrong, I'm not sure I care about how we enslave them though, aside from E. Coli that is. It's a very by the numbers documentary, presents it's case well, but brings no surprises or unexpected approaches to the subject.
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A thorough, confident documentary about a vital subject.
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Had to rewatch it in microeconomics. Still the documentary that's had the most effect on me beyond watching it.
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This is one of those documentaries that is really horrifying but it's difficult to do anything about it because you feel powerless. Really fascinating none the less.
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"You'll never look at dinner the same way again"... For about half an hour. Then you'll resume your regularly scheduled program of jamming pink meat goo down your gullet because we're conditioned quite effectively to view anything transmitted to us via screens as some form of fictional entertainment, even when it's not.
I mean... Uh... If you're not going to have sex with that fine-ass cow then I will. You snooze, you looze, sleeper!
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It is hard to say that this documentary is enjoyable, but it certainly is expertly made. There was a huge hullabaloo when this movie was released a few years ago, with people proclaiming that they would never want to eat again after seeing what goes into the food we eat. Honestly, the stories and images of pigs and cows and chickens wasn't nearly as unsettling to me as the story of how we have allowed our government to betray us to the giant conglomerates who control our food. Without a doubt the most disturbing information in this film is the government's role in allowing powerful companies to bully and intimidate their way into positions of dominance within certain segments of…
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Has some really strong points but lacks the rewatchability factor.
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Einblicke in die Nahrungsindustrie, vor allem in Amerika.
Vielleicht hat man in diese Richtung auch einfach schon zu viel gesehen, aber nichts in dieser Doku hat mich überrascht oder schockiert. Es ging ein bisschen um die Schicksale der Tiere, aber hauptsächlich um die Schicksale der Bauern. -
makes me really mad about largescale corporations and stuff, but one of my favourite documentaries.