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Food Inc Reviews
How Industrial Food is making us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It (Paperback)
Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "more than a terrific movie-it's an important movie." Aided by expert commentators such as Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, the film poses questions such as: Where has my food come from, and who has processed it? What are the giant agribusinesses and what stake do they have in maintaining the status quo of food production and consumption? How can I feed my family healthy foods affordably?
Expanding on the film's themes, the book Food, Inc. will answer those questions through a series of challenging essays by leading experts and thinkers. This book will encourage those inspired by the film to learn more about the issues, and act to change the world.
David Denby, New Yorker
"Those of us who avoid junk food, with many sighs of relief and self-approval, may still be eating junk a good deal of the time. This enraging fact, which will not surprise anyone who has read such muckraking books as Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation" (2001) and Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma" (2006), is one of the discomforting meanings of the powerful new documentary "Food, Inc.," an angry blast of disgust aimed at the American food industry."
The American Conservative
"If you care about what you're eating, you should see the new documentary Food Inc."
Takepart.com
"Most of you have probably heard about Food, Inc., the movie, but did you also know there's a companion book to the film? The book explores the challenges raised by the movie in fascinating depth through 13 essays, most of them written especially for this book, and many by experts featured in the film. Highlights include chapters by Michael Pollan (Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food), Anna Lappe (Hope's Edge and Grub), Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation and film co-producer), Robert Kenner (film director), and a chapter on asking the right questions from Sustainable Table! The book is so popular it's already in its fourth printing." Check out the link below to purchase the book
Food Inc is a wakeup call for consumers of cheap supermarket meals, so estranged and cut off from the realities of what we consume, where it comes from and at what cost.
Food Inc is an important film because it dares to confront issues the mainstream media has blissfully ignored. How many of us know that a monopoly of just a handful of (Four to be precise) food corporations is running the entire show in the US food supply chain? If you've wondered why we are getting fatter, perhaps it is because our food policy encourages people to eat all the junk money can buy. If processed meat or burgers and chips come at a fraction of the cost of fresh vegetables, it is hardly rocket science that cash strapped families are going to rely on takeaways and ready to eat frozen meals.
There are several issues the film tackles, from the aggressive lobbying that goes on to get almost dictatorial bills passed, suppressing any room for consumer dissent, to how profits are being put ahead of food safety and the predominant use of corn syrup in a majority (80%) of the ingredients at the supermarkets, which has in effect resulted into the re-engineering of our food habits. At the outset this might seem like an American film. But it isn't! The industrialization of food is soon becoming a reality in developed countries like India and China too, as supermarket chains and big corporations make headway into the organized food retail sector.
Watching this film made us rethink whether I really want my naturally organic environment to be altered to suit western concepts of eating. It is really necessary to have a choice of 47,000 items when you do your food shopping? India still goto the street side market (the bazaar), not the supermarket to buy fresh produce every day. Our fruit and vegetable consumption depends on seasons, unlike in the American supermarket where "there are no seasons" as the film observes. Takeaways and frozen food are an exception, not the rule.
to view the first 40 minutes of the movie, check out the link below.
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