Food, Inc.

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Food, Inc. is one of the most important documentaries that we have seen here at triplew.me. Most of the team has seen it and we can vouch that labels of everything are being checked again and again of most food items we buy.

The film takes a look at ‘Big Food’ in the US - the massive agribusiness firms that control the food supply of most of the country (and importing nations like many of those in the Middle East). Examining the ways in which animals and produce are farmed to create products that are cheaper and heavier, the film uses a number of confrontational scenes of mass slaughterhouses and production farms to deliver a message that sometimes bigger is not better.

Moving through the livestock business, to the development of patented seeds for corn (believe it or not, this is the most fascinating part of the film) through to the marketing of food to consumers, this is a fascinating, and at times, difficult to watch documentary.  It's not just about what we eat, more importantly, it's about how contaminated our food is becoming as production becomes more and more industrialized.  The sad and interesting paradox that bad food is cheap food is also explored - it's cheaper for a family at the poverty line to eat Burger King than buy fresh fruit and vegetables.

A particularly harrowing tale in the film is of a mother in the US that lost her son to a simple hamburger that was contaminated by an e-coli infected meat patty. All of it paints a grim picture for most of those happy, smiling cows on our cheese labels. However, all’s not lost, and the underlying message is to make sure we use our purchasing power to make informed choices of the food you are eating by choosing well at the supermarket and voting at the check-out.

WATCH IT FOR

Everything. If what we eat is what we are, then it could be time to arrange a cremation at the biohazard incinerator.

MISS IT FOR

Nothing - this is a documentary that is so important that we can't name any reasons to miss it.

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