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Synopsis: The current method of raw food production is largely a response to the growth of the fast food industry since the 1950s. The production of food overall has more drastically changed since that time than the several thousand years prior. Controlled primarily by a handful of multinational corporations, the global food production business - with an emphasis on the business - has as its unwritten goals production of large quantities of food at low direct inputs (most often subsidized) resulting in enormous profits, which in turn results in greater control of the global supply of food sources within these few companies. Health and safety (of the food itself, of the animals produced themselves, of the workers on the assembly lines, and of the consumers actually eating the food) are often overlooked by the companies, and are often overlooked by government in an effort to provide cheap food regardless of these negative consequences. Many of the changes are based on advancements in science and t

Genre: Documentary

Director(s): Robert Kenner

Actors: Eric Schlosser, Richard Lobb, Vince Edwards, Carole Morison

Production: Magnolia Pictures

Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 19 nominations.


IMDB:: 7.8
Metacritic:: 80
Rotten Tomatoes:: 95%

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Year:: 2008
: 94 min
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because they see that we have achieved
tremendous economies.
In a way, we're not
producing chickens;
we're producing food.
It's all highly mechanized.
So all the birds
coming off those farms
have to be almost
exactly the same size.
What the system of intensive
production accomplishes
is to produce
a lot of food
on a small amount of land
at a very affordable price.
Now somebody explain to me
what's wrong with that.
Smells like money to me.
sit here.
And Chuck's son has
four over the top of this hill.
The chicken industry
came in here
and it's helped
this whole community out.
Here's my chicken
houses here.
I have about
What do you want?
We have a contract
with Tyson.
They've been growing chickens
for many many years.
It's all a science.
They got it figured out.
If you can grow
a chicken in 49 days,
why would you want one you gotta grow
in three months?
More money
in your pocket.
These chickens
never see sunlight.
They're pretty much
in the dark all the time.
So you think they just
want to keep us out?
I don't know.
If I knew,
I'd tell you.
It would be nice if y'all could see
what we really do,
but as far
as y'all going in,
we can't let you
do that.
I understand why farmers
don't want to talk--
because the company can
do what it wants to do
as far as pay goes
since they control everything.
But it's just gotten
to the point
that it's not right
what's going on
and I've just
made up my mind.
I'm gonna say
what I have to say.
I understand why others
don't want to do it.
And I'm just to a point
that it doesn't
matter anymore.
Something has
to be said.
It is nasty in here.
There's dust
flying everywhere.
There's feces
everywhere.
This isn't farming.
This is just
mass production,
like an assembly line
in a factory.
When they grow
from a chick
and in seven weeks you've
got a five-and-a-half- pound chicken,
their bones
and their internal organs
can't keep up
with the rapid growth.
A lot of these chickens here,
they can take a few steps
and then they plop down.
It's because they can't
keep up all the weight
that they're carrying.
That's normal.
There's antibiotics
that's put into the feed
and of course that passes
through the chicken.
The bacteria
builds up a resistance,
so antibiotics
aren't working anymore.
I have become allergic
to all antibiotics
and can't take 'em.
When it's dark inside the houses,
the chickens lay down.
It's less resistance
when they're
being caught.
Traditionally, it's been
African-American men.
Now we're seeing more
and more Latino catchers--
undocumented workers.
From their point of view,
they don't have any rights

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Robert Kenner

Robert Kenner is an American film and television director, producer, and writer. Kenner is best known for directing the film Food, Inc. as well as the films, Command and Control, Merchants of Doubt, and When Strangers Click. In 2016, Kenner released Command and Control, a documentary of a 1980s nuclear missile accident in Arkansas, based on Eric Shlosser's award-winning book of the same name. The Village Voice wrote, “Command and Control is frightening for a whole pants-shitting list of reasons…morbidly fun to watch, in the manner of good suspense thrillers and disaster films.” In 2015, Kenner released Merchants of Doubt[2] inspired by Naomi Oreskes' and Erik Conway's book of the same name. The film explores how a handful of skeptics have obscured the truth on issues from Tobacco smoke, to toxic chemicals, to global warming. The Nation described Merchants of Doubt as "like a social-issues documentary by Samuel Beckett. You laugh as you contemplate everyone's doom". In 2011, Kenner released When Strangers Click for HBO. The film was nominated for an Emmy. The New York Times wrote, “Reserving judgment, the film beautifully explores the poignant nature of [one couple’s] ambivalence toward solitude.” In 2008, Kenner produced and directed the Oscar nominated, Emmy winning documentary film, Food, Inc., which examines the industrialization of the American food system and its impacts on workers, consumers, and the environment. Variety wrote that Food, Inc. “does for the supermarket what Jaws did for the beach.” In 2003, Kenner worked as co-filmmaker with Richard Pearce on The Road to Memphis for Martin Scorsese’s series, The Blues. Newsweek called the film, “the unadulterated gem of the Scorsese series.” Kenner has directed and produced numerous films for the award-winning PBS documentary series, American Experience including Two Days In October, which received a Peabody Award, an Emmy, and a Grierson award. Kenner has directed and produced several films for National Geographic including America’s Endangered Species: Don’t Say Goodbye, which received the Strand Award for Best Documentary from the International Documentary Association. Kenner has also directed a number of award-winning commercials and corporate videos for eBay, Hewlett Packard, Hallmark, and others. more…

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