Food, Inc. Trailer

By Javi

Food, Inc. provides viewers with an inside look behind the veil hiding the mechanisms behind the Unites States’ food industry. Filmmaker Robert Kenner exposes the handful of corporations that control the industry and, who more often than not, place a premium on profit at the expense of consumer health with the consent of the USDA and FDA.

“We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-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.”

The film features interviews with experts such as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto) as well as with progressive social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, who all help Food, Inc. reveal surprising and disturbing truths about what we eat and how it is produced.

Damn, this trailer made me contemplate the Popeyes’ chicken I had for dinner – the shit was delicious. The film is in theaters now.