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You are suppose to leave the theatre
after seeing "Food, Inc." never wanting to eat processed food
again--any processed food including beef, chicken and pork. They show
pigs being slaughtered, chicken's necks being cut after they are shoved
upside down into metal funnels and their chicks being mishandled onconveyor belts. You see cattle being bused and inhumanly killed.
You
learn that farmers are paid to overproduce corn which is then added to
everything from diapers to Coke. You listen to a mother trying to get
Kevin's Law passed, named after her 10 year old son who died after
eating a hamburger with E. coli bacteria which is more prevalent than
we are aware of because of how food is wrongly handled from the farm to
the supermarket.
It seems to be a
secret that the food production industry is as, if not more, powerful
than the cigarette industry was and that one corporation, Monsanto,
controls the seed planting in the USA and, along with Smithfield, Tyson and Perdue are responsible for the illegal immigration problem.
While
hitting on these and other subjects it seems to only touch on them
instead of following through and making a staunch case. There is some
confusion here and there and the makers of the documentary do add a
list of things an individual can do such as buy organic, grow your own
garden no matter how small, buy at farmer's markets, etc but, pardon
the pun, you leave hungry for more information, more motivation to do
more research on your own.
A big thing is made out of the fact
that a bag of chips cost less than a bag of carrots but this film will
not stop you from buying the chips and skipping the carrots.
As it is a really nasty, humid, windy, rainy, with lightening and thunder, gray day here spending an hour and a half in a cool movie theatre wasn't a waste of time and in a way educating if not as 'entertaining' as a Michael Moore documentary who also teaches at the same time.
