15 years old It’s a surprisingly intelligent documentary Leave it to the pros to tell us about one of the most pressing issues in our country from meat-packing, agriculture, farming, obesity, labeled food products These are all pressing topics were familiar with yet no one talks about them anymore Food, Inc. is a good film telling us the pros and cons of eating You'll walk out of the movie knowing alot more about what you eat, where you buy it, and where it comes from

"You can vote 3 times a day to change the system" Una investigación dentro del mundo de la comida, de sus procesos y sus consecuencias. Cruda. Reveladora. Impactante. Plantea el problema a traves de diferentes capítulos, con un estilo y estructura bastante ocupado, en la que se basan la mayoría de los documentales sensacionalistas. Compartiendo entrevistas de las principales víctimas de la industria, desde granjeros hasta consumidores, algunos en estado anónimo para evitar ser castigados por las empresas, e imagenes grabadas clandestinamebte de alto impacto, y una positiva conclusion que busca el cambio. La corrupta industria de la comida y la impunidad que tienen por su nivel de poder. La falta de regulaciónes y cobtrol de salud en ls producccion de alimentos. El abuso de poder hacua los granjeros, aprovechandose de ellos, dejándolos en condición de esclavitud laboral, al igual que los indocumentados que utilizan para reducir sus gastos. Por supuesto la cruldad e inmoralidad sobre el trato animal, que vivien en terribles condiciones. Las consecuencias del capitalismo. Revela la cruda realidad de la industria alimentaria, creando conciencia del impacto que tiene sobre la sociedad y la responsabilidad que tenemos como consumidores de informarnos de los productos que compramos. La vi a medias porque ya la habia visto. Despues de un maraton de documentales de los problemas sociales y ambientales ya nada me sorpende. ¿Hungry for change? La industria no quiere que sepas la verdad de lo que comes. Técnica: 8.2 Expresión: 7.5 Efecto: 9.0 Experiencia: 5.4 Calificación: 7.5/10

The facts in this story is a little to familiar and perhaps more of a general knowledge topic today because of this movie, so the shock element seems lost.

Everyone should watch this documentary/movie from start to finish. After doing so, you can decide what you want to do next; seek more information on the variety of topics discussed, spend more money on better food, write your congressman, or start growing vegetables in your backyard. For me, the film became more interesting as it progressed, and in the end, I felt it was asking us to write the rest of the story.

I thought this movie is great to show insight to an industry that will do everything they have to hide the atrocities that they commit every day. This film should be taught and educated to help the younger generations learn so they can bring about change and one day make the food industry safer, cleaner, and more sustainable.

A somber look into the massive scale and practices of agribusiness in America. Food, Inc. asks a lot of ethical questions raised by the industrialization of the food business. In a post-Supersize Me era, this movie did a lot to add to the genre of food documentaries. Asked myself a lot of questions about the food that I eat. Helps one understand the rise in popularity of the organic food in the post-Whole Foods era. Another part I enjoyed was how Food, Inc. shows how this isn't the fault of agribusiness itself. Society as a whole wants cheaper and faster options for food. The businesses that meet this demand are the ones that grow and the cycle continues. After watching this film, one should look past what is the cheapest and aim to have a healthier diet. 4/5. A cornerstone of the many food documentaries that spurred the organic foods revolution.

Food, Inc explains to the viewer how food habits have changed over the last half century. While initially one thinks that changes most likely have to do with behavioral changes, Food, Inc. shows how the food and agriculture industry has shaped consumer habits and protected their business interests. This documentary shows how food is produced. They take the viewer inside an IBP facility, which is a beef processing company that is now a subsidiary of the food giant Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc. IBP shows how processing is now an assembly line of processing equipment, which have increased efficiency and increased profits. However, this documentary also looks at a food safety lobbyist who switched career paths after her toddler died from E. Coli after eating a burger on vacation. The child died within 12 days of consumption and two weeks after his death the company that processed the beef recalled their product for E. Coli contamination. The documentary then discusses how instead of figuring out why products were increasingly becoming contaminated, processors began looking for technology to circumvent their problems. Researchers believe that E. Coli in cows are much more common now as cows are consuming corn instead of grass because corn is cheaper and fattens up the cows much quicker than grass feeding. The cows stomachs produce much more E. Coli, and much more dangerous, on a corn diet than they do on the diet they were evolved to have–grass. Additionally, IBP explains how they have circumvented the problem. IBP treats its products with ammonia products, which kill all the bacteria they are concerned with. A major portion of this film focuses on how the food giants are maintaining their strongholds on farmers and consumers. Corporations like Tyson and Perdue are able to keep chicken producers in vast amounts of debt, which increases the farmer's dependency on the corporation. They can do this by requiring farmers to upgrade their equipment, which they need to get loans for or risk having their contract terminated. This has lowered the quality of life for both the animals as well as created as one farmer called "slave-labor" where the farmers is beholden to the corporate giant. Companies like Monsanto are able to monopolize the seed business and are able to sue anyone that potentially is infringing on their patents even if they are not. Farmers explain that this is a tactic used to bankrupt farmers that are threatening their business. All of this is possible through lobbying efforts by corporate giants as many of the government organizations are run by ex-corporate employees.

Marvelous documentary

Very educational & TRUE!

Essential viewing for anyone who cares about their own health, the health of our planet, or the animals who are used for food production.

rewatch May 14 2019

This is a completely biased movie bought and paid for by organic activists. There are no actual facts presented here, just in your face fear mongering.

Documentaries are placed in a persuasive role to unveil truths and push for a requested immediate action to fix the thoroughly addressed - mostly in most cases - problems. They're generally insightful as well eye-opening when the nicely gathered facts shows a harsher reality if the subject is serious. This particular important documentary elaborates on the existing awareness through intriguing topics that eventually exposes tyranny in the industrial agriculture business who arrogantly only care about greed over consumers' health - and the frequent declines to be interviewed doesn't lighten their troubled ignorant positions except only make them shadier into further implications of the actual truth they don't want leaked out. Even with the message being spread throughout this essentiality, the sensitivity is jarring when choosing to display sick footages of animals losing the outer purpose of their inner souls, instead slaughter gets wedged in-between. It's quite understandable on how that one-third portion could produce an absolute effect for vegetarian conversion, accompanied by suggestible thought-provoking alternativeness. However, no matter what the conversion or the alternativeness produce, it won't shift the tyrannical tide. But this documentary is timeless with awareness that needs to be listened, even though the price would be seeing how graphic a truth can get when it should've alternatively gone subtle. (B) (Full review TBD)

To get this out of the way this movie and me have ha a history. I have been forced to watch this when I was in high-school and now I am in college. This movie is just preachy bullshit.It props up pro organic hysteria. If you love feeling superior and morally omnipotent then you will love this movie. Although it just has outright lies and purposeful misinterpretation.

What a piece of crap.

This should be required viewing for every American. Not only does it show the horrible way food is mass produced but also another example of just how broken our governmental system is.

Hard to believe Salatin's claim that his small farm is as efficient as a factory, or the implication that a network of such farms could possibly replace the big ones. His claim is unironically followed by one of his customers admitting that he drives hundreds of miles to buy food there.

No need to talk about the artistic achievements of 'Food'. All we should do is watch it, because it's bloody necessary.

Overall, the film is very narrow-minded about the purpose behind the way we work with food and why we work in such manner. Not recommended.

This movie literally led to me being vegetarian.