Food, Inc.

Food, Inc. (2008) directed by Robert Kenner. The food production system in the U.S. has gotten more and more industrialized, with only a few giant corporations controlling most of the growing, marketing and selling of food in our country. As a result, it is harder and harder (and more expensive) to get good-tasting, nutritious food. We all know fast food is bad for us, but we eat it anyway because it is easy, cheap and tasty. The result is an obesity and diabetes epidemic (which is really not discussed much in this movie), along with increasing instances of E coli and salmonella poisoning around the nation. This documentary explores the different facets of our flawed food production system, and should be enough to raise alarms in even the most carefree of us. We've got to do something before it's too late! Start by seeing this movie, available on DVD from Netflix. (Closed captions are available for the hearing-impaired.) Grade: A