Food, Inc.

Food, Inc. articulately and adroitly exposes the dirty underbelly of our modern food system. In just two generations, we’ve moved from family farms to corporate factories, subsidized by the government to produce engineered food that is laden with salt, fat and sugar. Boneless, skinless, shrink-wrapped and bleached in ammonia, the meat in our supermarkets belies its origins of overcrowded filthy feedlots and vast sunless chicken houses. The goal has been faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper. Cheaper at the cash register, perhaps, but the real cost is exorbitant when measured in medical bills, cruelty to animals, danger to workers and environmental degradation. Food, Inc. tallies the bill brilliantly.