Food, Inc. (2008) on Netflix
PG20081h 34mDocumentary
A handful of corporations control most of what Americans eat, from farm fields to supermarket shelves. Farmers, workers and families describe what that control means for what they grow and buy.
- Netflix4.3/5
- IMDb7.8/1052,979 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes95%
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Plot summary
The film examines how a few large companies came to dominate the American food market, in the meat that reaches grocery stores and in the corn and soybeans grown across the country. It argues that these companies keep shoppers from knowing how their food is made and have fought stronger food safety laws, worker unions and new labeling rules. Cheap food, it says, arrives through methods that strain livestock, employees, farmers and the land and burn large amounts of petroleum. Several people are interviewed, among them growers, a food safety advocate and authors who study what Americans eat. Buying organic and local produce in season and reading labels are put forward as ways to change the system.
Cast
- Eric Schlosseras Self - Author, 'Fast Food Nation'
- Richard Lobbas Self - National Chicken Council
- Carole Morisonas Self - Perdue Grower
- Troy Roushas Self - Vice President, American Corn Growers Association
- Larry Johnsonas Self - Center for Crops Utilization Research, Iowa State University
- Allen Trenkleas Self - Ruminant Nutrition Expert, Iowa State University
- Barbara Kowalcykas Self - Food Safety Advocate
- Patricia Buckas Self - Food Safety Advocate, Barbara's Mom
- Diana DeGetteas Self - Representative, Colorado
- Phil Englishas Self - Representative - Pennsylvania, Co-Sponsor of Kevin's Law
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Food, Inc. (2008)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Robert Kenner spent three years making Food, Inc., and claims he spent a large part of his budget on legal fees to protect himself against lawsuits from the industrial food producers, pesticide and fertilizer manufacturers and other companies the film criticizes.
- Stonyfield Farm, an organic yogurt maker in New Hampshire whose CEO appears in the film, promoted it by printing information about it on the foil lids of 10 million cups of yogurt in June 2009.
- Monsanto, Tyson Foods, Smithfield Foods and Perdue Farms all declined the filmmakers' requests for interviews; Monsanto said it invited them to a producers' trade show, but the filmmakers said they were denied press credentials there and could not attend.
