Have you ever wondered why there are so many e coli break outs? Are you interested in finding out why there is such a rise in diabetes these days? What does a "grass fed" steak mean on a menu in a nice restaurant (p.s. its a good thing, a really good thing)? If you want to know more about what is really in the food you pick up at the grocery store for dinner, and really everyone should, then Food Inc. will be an amazing, eye-opening experience for you. Food Inc. features interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (author of Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (author of The Omnivore's Dilemma) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farm's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin in a documentary that really gives you a scary inside look at how only a hand full of corporations are controlling the food, and more specifically meat, we eat every day. These companies' need to make a profit has caused a domino effect that starts at fast foods corporations' need for more and more cheap meat and ends with driving the price of healthy foods up so that most of America can't afford to feed their family with anything but the dollar menu which as we all know is not the breakfast, lunch, or dinner of champions.
The movie is absolutely riveting because its a topic that many of us never think twice about and it thoroughly explores the issue from every angle. Farmers, Lobbyists, Families affected, etc. all have their say except for the corporations who all individually declined (not surprisingly) interviews to be apart of the documentary. One of the lynch pin, holy shit!, scenes takes place in a factory that looks exactly like the final scene in Terminator 2. Its in this stadium of steel pipes and conveyor belts that they mix 70% (soon to be 100%!) of Americans' hamburger meat with ammonia in order to kill any bacteria, that you fully realize how little we know about what we are eating. The movie has it's funny and depressing moments but it's more importantly jam packed with scenes and facts that will give you a much different look at the Purdue chickens that are flying off the shelves. If you believe in the saying "ignorance is bliss" and you don't want to know why there was just an e coli breakout from freakin' cookie dough causing 60+ people to die then you'll hate this movie, but in my humble opinion, closing your eyes to the hard truth is no way to go through life.
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