FOOD, Inc.- DVD

A Robert Kenner Film

You'll never look at Dinner the same way again!

"More than a terrific movie - it's an important movie." - Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

How much do we know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families?  Though our food appears the same - a tomato still looks like a tomato - it has been radically transformed.

In a world riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes, director Robert Kenner and investigative authors Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) lift the veil on the food industry, exposing the highly mechanised underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of that government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.

They reveal how a handful of US corporations control the nation's food supply.  Though the companies try to maintain the myth that food still comes from farms with red barns and white picket fences, food is actually raised on massive "factory farms" and processed in mega industrial plants.

Featuring interviews with Schlosser and Pollan along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farms' Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joe Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising - and often shocking truths - about what Americans eat, how it's produced, and where they are headed.  And provides food for thought as to how similar things may also be happening here.

Winner: 2010 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Documentary Feature

90 MINS approximate running time

PAL - REGION 4