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Food, Inc. (2008)

Documentary | 94 minutes
3,41 276 votes

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 94 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Robert Kenner

Stars: Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan

IMDb score: 7,8 (53.118)

Releasedate: 7 September 2008

Food, Inc. plot

"You'll never look at dinner the same way again."

How much do Americans really know about the food they buy in the supermarket? An inside look at the US food industry, which is regulated by a handful of large corporations that put profits ahead of the health of consumers, farmers, food industry workers and the environment. Experts, such as Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan, have their say.

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scorsese

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Good documentary about, as the title suggests, the food industry. It is clear from the start that the food industry is not doing well here. Actually nothing new under the sun, but interesting nonetheless (even if we are only talking about America here). The documentary easily looks away.

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Vinokourov

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This is a much-discussed documentary and logical! It is shocking to see how some companies deal with food and that you as a consumer just get that on your plate. Although I always wonder in these kind of documentaries to what extent what is presented is actually correct. A program such as Keuringdienst van Waarde goes deeper into the matter, while here it seems as if some blows are being dealt haphazardly to the food industry. Makes for a little less impact unfortunately. Anyway, it managed to fascinate me and I am also very curious how things are going here in the Netherlands. There have been some food scandals here too lately, so it won't matter that much (unfortunately).

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Onderhond

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food stuff.

Now that every bobo can make a documentary, we get a lot of these kinds of things. I don't doubt the good intentions of the makers, but as you watch you start to question what you're presented with more and more, until you irrevocably start to question the correctness of docus like this one.

It is well known that animal welfare should be worked on, that companies should give more importance to the well-being of their consumers and that justice is not always logical or just has been no longer a secret for years. But of course we don't need this documentary for that.

In itself I thought the information was presented reasonably well, especially by giving more moderate points of view (that guy who would rather ensure measurable improvement instead of sitting on his moral horse, for example). But then again it's a shame that the mother is involved. No matter how distressing such a situation for a family, in the bigger picture it is only milk that should work on the viewer's mind.

I also still don't know what to do with messages like "company X did not want to cooperate on this documentary". I can think of 10 reasons other than the rolled out "oh, then they must have something to hide!" response. The point is also that they are constants in docus like this, which makes the one-sidedness weigh too much.

Little new under the sun. A few other accents that were quite interesting, but otherwise not really convincing enough and above all too sentimentally transparent and too much one-way traffic.

2.0*

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