Review of Food, Inc. (2008) by Armonda. — 08 Jul 2009
This film gets most of its points just for having been made at all. Given the content, one tends not to think much about artistic merit. You're looking at a rather conventionally constructed documentary that shows a couple of fairly revolting scenes having to do with the "care", feeding, and slaughter of the food-animals produced by American Agri-business.
It's hard to imagine anyone construing anything said about this movie as a "spoiler", but I'm avoiding mentioning certain specifics just so that you don't feel like you've already seen the movie when it's up on the screen in front of you.
Let me predict that reaction to the film has a lot to do with your political beliefs. You'll like what you see, in the sense that you'll nod appreciatively, if you already know that we're in deep trouble, and you'll get very angry if you want to believe that Big Farma has YOUR health in mind when they sell you a Double Cheese, Double Meat, Whopper made with fresh-from-the factory meat, manure, and ammonia.
If I have one bone to pick (pun intended) with the filmmaker it's about his seeming to imply that a small organic food company can start selling a large part of its product to the MegaGiganto Company (guess what their real name is) without finding out that the MG company now has them by the nuts and has no qualms about squeezing them.
(The end result will not be peanut oil.
This review of Food, Inc. (2008) was written by Armonda. on 08 Jul 2009.
Food, Inc. has generally received very positive reviews.
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