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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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A "farm bill,"
which should really be
called a "food bill,"
codifies the rules
of the entire food economy.
Farm policy is always focused
on these commodity crops
because you can
store them.
We encourage farmers to grow
as much corn as they can grow,
to get big,
to consolidate.
We subsidize farmers
by the bushel.
We produced a lot of corn
and they came up
with uses for it.
We are now engineering our foods.
We know where to turn to
for certain traits
like mouth feel and flavor.
And we bring all of these
pieces together
and engineer new foods
that don't stale
in the refrigerator,
don't develop rancidity.
Of course the biggest advance
in recent years
was high-fructose
corn syrup.
You know,
I would venture to guess
if you go and look
on the supermarket shelf,
I'll bet you 90% of them
would contain either
a corn or soybean ingredient,
and most of the time
will contain both.
Corn is the great raw material.
You get that big fat
kernel of starch
and you can break that down
and reassemble it.
You can make
high-fructose corn syrup.
You can make maltodextrin
and diglycerides
and xanthan gum
and ascorbic acid.
All those obscure ingredients
on the processed food--
it's remarkable how many of them can be
made from corn.
Plus, you can feed it
to animals.
Corn is the main component
in feed ingredients
whether it's chicken,
hogs, cattle-- you name it.
Increasingly, we're feeding
the corn to the fish
whether we're eating the tilapia
or the farmed salmon.
We're teaching fish
how to eat corn.
The fact that we had
so much cheap corn
really allowed us to drive
down the price of meat.
I mean, the average American
is eating over 200 lbs
of meat per person
per year.
That wouldn't
be possible
had we not fed them
this diet of cheap grain.
Since you're selling corn
at below the price of production,
the feedlot operator
can buy corn
at a fraction
of what it costs to grow,
so that all the animals
are sucked off
of all the farms
in the Midwest.
There is a spiderweb
of roads
and train tracks
all around the country
moving corn
from where it's being grown
to these CAFOs.
Cows are not designed
by evolution to eat corn.
They're designed
by evolution to eat grass.
And the only reason
we feed them corn
is because corn is
really cheap
and corn makes them
fat quickly.
Where are you putting your hand?
I'm actually
inside the rumen--
that first compartment
of the stomach.
And it's--
it's not--
it's kind of hard to see.
You can see
the liquid part here.
Wow.
- Does that hurt the cow?
- No.
There's microorganisms--
bacteria in the rumen,
millions of 'em.

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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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