Food, Inc.
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Movie Reviews of Food, Inc.
Movie Review: Disturbing.
Summary: 5 Stars
I think I feel the same way a lot of people feel.
I know our meat sources don't exactly come from good places but like a lot of people I just wanted to turn a blind eye. Just give me my meat and be quiet.
So after some hard thinking I decided to watch "Food Inc." and I think I can sum up the movie and the meat industry in one word.
I won't go into great detail as to what the movie involves; other reviewers have done that already and done it well.
What did I like about the movie?
Everything!
I think I'm ready to start ordering my meat through an organic farmer; I don't want all those chemicals and hormones going through my body or my families.
The movie is well shot, well written, and very informative.
Eye opening and flat out disturbing.
Why is the food industry doing this to us?
Why are they doing such terrible things to the animals?
What are they doing?
Watch the movie and find out.
It's sad, I almost had to turn the movie off after the story of the two year old and E Coli.
What else did I like?
I can't believe I'm saying this about a documentary but I loved the music too.
Great acoustic guitar in certain spots.
What didn't I like?
Nothing.
This movie is as perfect as a documentary can be.
If you're at all curious as to where or meat is REALLY coming from and if you think by not eating meat that you're any safer, THINK AGAIN.
You owe it to yourself and your loved ones to watch this movie.
Get informed and take action.
If you won't stand up for your own health, no one will.
Food Inc. comes......
Highly Recommended!!!
Movie Review: Necessary Food For Thought-To Get Our Government Back
Summary: 5 Stars
By focusing on food this movie goes behind the curtain of Oz to lift the veil and reveal a privitized government of, for, and by corporations. In the food industry they literally own the patent rights to the seeds(read Seeds of Destruction by William F. Engdahl). They(a few monopolies) own the whole food process from seeds to the supermarkets/restaurants. Not only do they own the govrnments regulators/they are the government regulators, not only in the food industry, but the banking industry, the pharmaceutical, the media, you name it/it's been privitized to monopoly ownership. Even the U.S. Government has been privitized through a lobbied/corporate media electoral 2-party dictatorship.
This movie is unfortunately just the tip of the titanic ice berg that is not melting but ready to produce another titantic "bubble" called "Cap and Trade".
Tune In & drop out of the mainstream propaganda and start reading from a variety of sources. The more mainstream/government, the more suspect.
By virtue of the fact that this movie has been made and distributed widely speaks of the real hope that there is light at the end of the tunnel. The more that people search for that light the more there will be for us all. Truth may be slow, but it is more powerful than the privitized lie. The Public may be Privitization's enemy # 1, but the truth is racing to beat...monpolies/oligopolies lies that race around the world many times over before truth can even tie it's shoe strings.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!!!!
P.S. "The glory which is built upon a lie soon becomes a most unpleasant incumbrance. How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!" - Mark Twain
Movie Review: Monsanto, Tyson's, ADM, etc., decline to comment.
Summary: 5 Stars
This isn't Michael Pollan's film, but his comments nevertheless stand out to me. Pollan's logic is irrefutable. Has anyone heard a cogent rebuttal to him from Monsanto or Tyson's or the Iowa Farm Bureau? No, they just fume about how "food activists" are taking cheap shots at the good and noble and virtuous occupation of farming. Their standard mantra is that American farmers produce safe, cheap, and nutritious food. But they cannot have it both ways--declining to be interviewed and then charging food journalists with unbalanced reporting. They do not answer the hard questions about modern agribusiness (it's not farming anymore) because they cannot.
Two contrasting images stand out for me in the film. One is the image of the coldly efficient slaughterhouse. The other is of Joel Salatin butchering chickens. Are the images morally equivalent? I think not. There is nothing intrinsically evil about slaughtering animals. But the modern mega-slaughterhouse is evil. (Cue Iowa Farm Bureau rebuttal mantra.) CAFO's are evil. Local processing is the way animals should be slaughtered. (Cue USDA warning on trying this without jumping through their regulatory hoops.) And it isn't just the slaughterhouse that is evil. The whole industrial-agriculture production system is morally corrupt, including the regulatory apparatus. (As noted in the film, the "regulatory apparatus" tried to close Joel Salatin down.)
I like the end of the film alot because it offers practical recommendations. It is very simple. The recommended action is: vote with your pocketbook. Change your buying habits. Find new food sources. Stop buying what is unhealthy, start buying what is healthy. Buy local.
Movie Review: Must See DVD - your stomach will thank you
Summary: 5 Stars
It's a challenge to present a difficult subject matter, one infused with so much political fire, in a respectful and straightforward way. Food Inc. does the job perfectly. It isn't preachy, it isn't blasting viewers with gory sights from slaughterhouses, it isn't one-sided; what it does is share important information in a way that lets viewers see behind the scenes of big agriculture, behind the marketing and the hype.
Often, books and movies on this subject are preaching to the choir. The only folks that see or read the message didn't need the message in the first place. Food Inc. is mainstream, accessible and open to everyone. Food, our health and our land shouldn't be an issue for the Left or the Right. It impacts all of us equally and the solution has to involve all sides. Small farmers have a big stake in this, as do those concerned with the environment, food safety advocates, workers' rights defenders and average consumers. Everybody has a piece of this pie and how we choose to go forward is what will matter. Food Inc. gives the viewer plenty of food for thought but also some conclusions that can be implemented now by consumers to help bring big business in line with what is safe and healthy.
Skeptics especially should watch this film. If you don't believe there is anything wrong with genetically modified food, with huge agricultural factories, with our current food safety, then watch this film and put your thoughts and beliefs up against the information presented. If nothing else, I think skeptics will get the chance to see things from another view point and perhaps walking a mile in those boots will give them some food for thought too.
Movie Review: Holy cow, is this what we're really eating?
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought I knew a lot about nutrition and the food that I eat, but there were some things in this documentary that surprised even me. I think one of the most eye opening things about it was in the beginning where they show aisles and aisles of supermarket space all filled with a seemingly endless variety of foods. But as the movie continues you come to find out that there are very few different ingredients in all of these foods, a high percentage of it is corn, soy and chemicals. After watching it, I looked at the labels in my local grocery store and was amazed at how true that is.
The one argument in favor of processed foods in my mind was that there's more of a variety than the whole natural foods that my family normally eats. Sometimes it's hard to be creative without resorting to processed ingredients, but maybe that's just laziness on my part. After watching this and seeing not only the origin of some of the foods we eat, but the social and environmental implications of foods we purchase, I can see that it's worth it in so many ways to go out of my way to buy only whole, unprocessed foods. The extra money spent on organic is well spent. We need to start voicing our opinions with what we spend our money on because according to this film, that's the only voice we have.
Coincidentally, I just finished reading a techno-thriller novel Freedom (TM) that has parts that tie into this same subject, people taking back the right to a clean and safe food supply. The book is fiction, but maybe not so far "out there" as I thought while reading it.