So there was a lot of hype when this came out last year. My more conscientious friends told me I had to see it. Well, I put it off for a long time, because, growing up the way I did, in a hippie new age environment, I felt that I probably knew all about its message. Which, after watching the movie, I did know most of this, but there were a few facts that jumped out at me. Food, Inc. doesn’t just talk about how our food is made, it also talks about who gets to make our food. Such as illegal immigrants that have been living in America for years and suddenly get picked up and shipped back to their home town. Food, Inc. shows every aspect of what the food industry has done to everyone, how we are all affected.

This is certainly an eye-opening look at the food industry in America. This documentary will change your life. The way we eat is appalling. Absolutely horrifying to see how our foods are processed, broken down into small categories of mass production. This story is a mere slice of the whole pie of what our government has done with our food. Large companies own our food, not farms or slaughter houses. For instance, Tyson meats are mentioned in Food, Inc. The Tyson Meat Packaging Company is the largest company in the world. All non-organic slaughter houses inject their animals with antibiotics and ammonia, among other nasty chemicals, that the consumer then eats. These chemicals are used to make animals plump & make their meat seem juicer, not to actually give human beings any actual nutrition.

Because large factories are producing all of our food products, whether it be dairy, meat, vegetables, sodas, chips, etc, we are losing the vitality and nutrients of what food used to mean. Mass produced food does not mean healthy food, it means cheap and easy. Mass produced food means industrialized food companies get bigger and richer.

This documentary will make you want to change your diet or at least look into changing it. If you enjoyed this, an excellent nonfiction book to check out is “The One Hundred Year Lie” by Randall Fitzgerald. He goes into more depth on all of the chemicals that are injected into our day-to-day foods, medicines, cleaning supplies, and clothing. There is also a fun or rather scary toxicology test in the book. I think I scored fairly high on being toxic. My excuse is poor student. What’s yours? Let’s see some changes in the way we eat. - [DVD]

Documentary

Rated PG

DVD Release Date: 11/3/09

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