Winner of three awards, Food, INC, follows in the footsteps of Fast Food Nation and Super Size Me, exposing the underbelly of the beast that is the Big Food Business. Director Robert Kenner draws several key distinctions about how food is massed produced in America.
Big Food Business's assembly-line approach to farming has changed not only the way farming is conducted but also controls the diet of America as a result. Producer of Farmaggedon and American Meat, Joel Salatin sums up the dilemma facing today's farmer, who has traded control of their own farming business just to stay afloat.
"A culture that just uses a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, to be manipulated by whatever creative design the human can foist on that critter, will probably view individuals within its community, and other cultures in the community of nations, with the same type of disdain and disrespect and controlling type mentalities." As a result, large food companies like Purdue, Cargill, and Monsanto keep American farmers on a short lease, depriving them of even the most basic of entrepreneurial rights enjoyed by all American business-owners – that of freedom on how to run their own business.
This shifting from quality to quantity has Americans suffering from more type 2 Diabetes, cancer, hypertension, obesity, and sudden death from an ever increasing array of scientific assaults on farm animals and crops.
Author Michael Pollan sadly notes that: "There are no seasons in the American supermarket. Now there are tomatoes all year round, grown halfway around the world, picked when it was green, and ripened with ethylene gas. Although it looks like a tomato, it's kind of a notional tomato. I mean, it's the idea of a tomato." The one bright light in this tale of culinary woe is rise of the small independent organic farmer and the organic food movement's progression from small health-food stores mainstreaming into the larger food store chains. Food Inc. follows a popular organic yogurt and its successful migration onto Wal-Mart store shelves.
A "must see" for everyone on the planet who cares about what they eat!
Big Food Business's assembly-line approach to farming has changed not only the way farming is conducted but also controls the diet of America as a result. Producer of Farmaggedon and American Meat, Joel Salatin sums up the dilemma facing today's farmer, who has traded control of their own farming business just to stay afloat.
"A culture that just uses a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, to be manipulated by whatever creative design the human can foist on that critter, will probably view individuals within its community, and other cultures in the community of nations, with the same type of disdain and disrespect and controlling type mentalities." As a result, large food companies like Purdue, Cargill, and Monsanto keep American farmers on a short lease, depriving them of even the most basic of entrepreneurial rights enjoyed by all American business-owners – that of freedom on how to run their own business.
This shifting from quality to quantity has Americans suffering from more type 2 Diabetes, cancer, hypertension, obesity, and sudden death from an ever increasing array of scientific assaults on farm animals and crops.
Author Michael Pollan sadly notes that: "There are no seasons in the American supermarket. Now there are tomatoes all year round, grown halfway around the world, picked when it was green, and ripened with ethylene gas. Although it looks like a tomato, it's kind of a notional tomato. I mean, it's the idea of a tomato." The one bright light in this tale of culinary woe is rise of the small independent organic farmer and the organic food movement's progression from small health-food stores mainstreaming into the larger food store chains. Food Inc. follows a popular organic yogurt and its successful migration onto Wal-Mart store shelves.
A "must see" for everyone on the planet who cares about what they eat!