Chew On the First Three Minutes of 'Food, Inc.'
What are you eating?
While I think features such as this for narrative story-telling hurts films, I think it is quality marketing for documentaries that need to go the extra mile to attract an audience as Magnolia Pictures has released the first three minutes of their upcoming "you don't know what you are eating" doc Food, Inc.
The tagline for the film is "You'll Never Look at Dinner the Same Way," which may actually be something that deters audiences from watching as "the less you know" seems to be the motto for so many fast food fetching Americans. Food, Inc. hits theaters on June 12 and is said to expose the highly mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Food, Inc. reveals surprising — and often shocking truths — about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
You ready to watch? Put down the fries and Big Mac and give the opening credit sequence a peek. I have also added the trailer above and to the right.
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Is it bad that the clip just makes me feel happy to live in the 21st century?
The workers are abused? Quit, it's called capitalism.
The notion of a tomato? Looks like a tomato tastes like a tomato, but it's a notion apparently.
I'm a vegan and I still feel patronized.
Wow.
This movie looks really bad.
@Paes: Is that all you have or do you have something more substantial to offer in terms of an actual thought out opinion.
@Andrew: This doc looks great, just look at that credit sequence. It's not the most energetic narrator but you can tell they put time into this project.
By the way Andrew, go buy a $4 organic tomato from Whole Foods, you'll taste the difference – any real vegan will tell you that
@Guy: Hey I'm not denying organic foods from good supermarkets are far superior, but I think I know a tomato when I see one.
I used to work in a tomato processing plant, it was disgusting. Sometimes a batch of tomatoes would fail inspection so the fine folks at my company would just mix that batch in with a batch that already passed, then submit that for reinspection and all of it would go to the shelves.
Like I said disgusting, but it's also disgusting that we waste so much time complaining about the huge quantities of cheap food that we have accessible to us as 1st worlders.
It's all just such a joke, poor us and our bulging waste lines.
You want an unpretentious documentary? See King of Kong, that's how a documentary should be made, just biased enough to be connectible.
Man I love this site.
I loved that phrase "the notion of a tomato." I call them wax tomatoes because they look like tomatoes, but they don't have any discernible smell or taste. They take the place of a tomato in whatever your serving…they're the notion of a tomato.
This film makes me very uncomfortable and it should.