Food, Inc.

Directed by: Robert Kenner (feature debut)

Starring: Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser

Running time: 94 minutes

Rating: Documentary

Filmmaker Robert Kenner sets out to expose the dark, Orwellian underbelly of America's food industry - deliberately hidden from consumers with the consent of regulatory agencies. Controlled by corporation and profit, human health and the environment has been put in jeopardy: there's bigger-breasted chickens, perfect pork chops, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad. But we also have new strains of E. coli bacteria, widespread obesity and an increasing level of diabetes among adults.

Featuring interviews with experts like Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) along with social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals the surprising truth about what we eat, how it's produced and where the industry is going from here. It illustrates how complicated and compromised the once simple process of growing crops and raising livestock to feed ourselves and our families has become. But, it also reminds us that despite what appears to be at times a hopeless situation, each of us still has the ability to vote on this issue every day – at breakfast, lunch and dinner.

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