Food, Inc.

Synopsis

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
Educational materials are available online at: http://www.foodincmovie.com/spread-the-word.php

Language

English

Country

United States

Year of release

2009

Notes

Film Education, in partnership with the A-Team Foundation, the Soil Association and Dogwoof Films has produced a range of educational materials linked to FOOD INC. The free CD-ROM, available from Film Education, is designed for use at Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and post-16 in a range of subjects. See http://www.filmeducation.org/foodinc/

Subjects

Agriculture; Biology; Earth Science; Economics

Keywords

animal welfare; food production and distribution

Credits

Director

Robert Kenner

Distribution Formats

Type

DVD

Format

Region 2 PAL

Price

£6.99

Availability

Sale

Duration/Size

94 minutes

Year

2014

Distributor

Name

Dogwoof Pictures

Email

oli@dogwoofpictures.com

Web

http://www.dogwoof.com External site opens in new window

Phone

020 7395 1217

Fax

020 7900 3270

Address

2nd Floor, 1A Neal’s Yard
Covent Garden
London
WC2H 9DP

Notes

Dogwoof is an independent distributor specialising in quality films from around the world that raise awareness, trigger change, and get people involved. The main focus is socially conscious films including THE AGE OF STUPID, THE END OF THE LINE, BURMA VJ and BLACK GOLD. Sale on DVD. In Autumn 2011 Dogwoof launched Popup Cinema (http://popupcinema.net/) to allow non-theatric screenings of their just-released and classic titles.

 

Available from retail outlets