Food Inc., The Reviews Are In
Sorry, there are no theaters within 20 miles of my zipcode that are playing Food Inc. I will have to get it on Netflix when it comes out. In the mean time, I have watched the trailer and read a bunch of the reviews:
- There is the short and sweet review by Marion Nestle, who describes what sort of educational materials come with the film.
- Parke Wilde, a self-described “nutrition economist” from Tufts, tackles the film from a progressive food policy angle. He says there were so many poignant arguments it could have made, but didn’t.
- Erik Marcus wonders about the impact of Food Inc. on the viewer’s diet. Erik Marcus is surprised at the fact that in the entirety of the movie the word vegan or vegetarian isn’t uttered once.
- The New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Nicholas Kristof covers the more personal aspects of Food Inc, discussing his relationship to food and the various people who popped up in the film, like Barbara Kowalcyk, whose two-and-a-half-year-old child died after he ate a hamburger tainted with E. coli bacteria.
- Food Inc. must have had a mighty impact on the infamous film critic, Roger Ebert, because instead of a regular review, he ends up detailing a lot of the horrific “plot” of the thing. He wrote:
This review doesn’t read one thing like a movie review. But most of the stuff I discuss in it, I learned from the new documentary “Food, Inc.,” directed by Robert Kenner and based on the recent book An Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. I figured it wasn’t important for me to go into detail about the photography and the editing. I just wanted to scare the bejesus out of you, which is what “Food, Inc.” did to me.
I encourage everyone to have bejesus scared out of them. Maybe some good will come of it.
July 1, 2009
Tags: agriculture, change, farmers, food event, Health, marketing, nutrition, policy Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health, Politics
4 Responses
I’m sorry you live in the boonies that seem to be Rhode Island. Two theaters on public transit in Boston are showing it – so I have no excuse to not go see it.
I hope you do go to see it. I feel like it’s going to be a visual version of the Omnivore’s Dilemma and Fast Food Nation. Which is to say, it is a visual feast of the sorts of things most people would care to avoid while eating.
And, it looks like I will be able to see it after all. There’s a second-run theater in town that says it’s coming soon. Huzzah!
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