Food Inc. is a documentary that seeks to uncover the corruption and mass production methods of providing food for people of the United States. Anyone who’s familiar with Eric Schlosser’s book “Fast Food Nation” will undoubtedly get a jolt out of this film.
The doc, for the most part, does a very good job of sticking to the bare facts and nothing more. I’ve never been the biggest fan of Michael Moore films, so I tend to be a tad bit more critical when I see a documentary start to embellish more than report.
The most poignant part of this film came when they did a synopsis of the Monsano Group, an organization that is credited with creating a patented, pesticide-resistant seed, only to find out that the pesticide that they are resistant to is Roundup (a product of the Monsano Group). It was then reported that Monsano was sending private investigators to farms across the country to insure that subsidized farmers weren’t using a seed that was unapproved by the group.
A chicken warehouse that stores up to 5,000 hens at a time.
Many people warned me that that I was going to leave this documentary as a newfound vegetarian, but that simply wasn’t the case. Granted, I may never visit another fast food joint again, but I feel like you have to be naive to think that mass production techniques have not trickled into the way we get our daily bread.
The only thing I wish the documentary would have expounded more on was the hypocrisy of the organic movement and how even they tried the justify the use of assembly line-like methods to further expand their business, but I believe the point of this movie was to do more than just play devil’s advocate; it’s real purpose was to show that humans, at one time, relied and flourished on self-sustainability. This is not the case now.
We’ve become so complacent with the status quo that we fail to see that we’re slowly killing ourselves and future generations with the way we consume our food.
Food Inc. is a great film for anyone our there who needs a compelling reason as to why they should change the way they see, purchase and eat food.
