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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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and they're just not
gonna complain.
The companies like
these kind of workers.
It doesn't matter
if the chickens get sick.
All of the chickens
will go to the plant
for processing.
The companies keep
the farmers under their thumb
because of the debt
that the farmers have.
To build one poultry house
is anywhere from $280,000
to $300,000 per house.
And once you make
your initial investment,
the companies
constantly come back
with demands
of upgrades
for new equipment,
and the grower
has no choice.
They have to do it
or you're threatened
with loss of a contract.
This is how they keep
the farmers under control.
It's how they keep them
spending money,
going to the bank
and borrowing more money.
The debt just
keeps building.
To have no say
in your business,
it's degrading.
It's like being
a slave to the company.
The idea that you would
need to write a book
telling people
where their food came from
is just a sign of how far removed
we've become.
It seems to me that we're entitled
to know about our food--
"Who owns it?
How are they making it?
Can I have a look
in the kitchen?"
When I wanted to understand
the industrial food system,
what I set about doing
was very simple.
I wanted to trace
the source of my food.
When you go through
the supermarket,
what looks like this cornucopia
of variety and choice is not.
There is an illusion
of diversity.
There are only
a few companies involved
and there're
only a few crops involved.
What really
surprised me most
as I followed that food
back to its source,
I kept ending up
in the same place,
and that was
a cornfield in Iowa.
So much of our
industrial food
turns out to be clever
rearrangements of corn.
Corn has conquered the world
in a lot of ways.
It is a remarkable plant.
a farmer in America
could grow maybe 20 bushels of corn
on an acre.
Today, 200 bushels
is no problem.
That's an astonishing
achievement
for which breeders
deserve credit,
for which fertilizer
makers deserve credit,
for which pesticide makers
all deserve credit.
In the United States today,
is being planted to corn.
That's largely driven
by government policy,
government policy that,
in effect,
allows us to produce corn
below the cost of production.
The truth of the matter is
we're paid to overproduce,
and it was caused by
these large
multinational interests.
The reason our government's
promoting corn--
the Cargills, the ADMs,
Tyson, Smithfield--
they have an interest in purchasing corn
below the cost of production.
They use that interest and that
extensive amount of money they have
to lobby Congress to give us the kind
of farm bills we now have.

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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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