导演: Robert Kenner
主演: Michael Pollan / Eric Schlosser
类型: 纪录片
官方网站: http://www.foodincmovie.com/
制片国家/地区: 美国
语言: 英语
上映日期: 2009-06-12
片长: USA: 94 分钟 / Argentina: 94 分钟(Mar del Plata Film Festival)
又名: 毒食难肥
IMDb链接:7.9 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/


　随着工业文明的高度发展，各种各样的食物也变得供不应求，但在这看似繁华的背后，食品安全却已到了不容忽视的地步。影片从快餐业入手，逐步向种植业、畜牧业、养殖业延展开去，揭露了大型食品公司经营者为了获取高额利润不惜改变动植物的生长方式和生长周期，他们在经营上取得丰厚的利润，而代价却是公众的健康和安全。在看似清洁的食品加工流水线上，沙门氏菌和希氏大肠杆菌毫无阻碍渗透到食物当中，毒害着人类的生命。由于政策等方面原因，人们无法也无力拒绝大公司强加于身的迫害。在金钱和欲望面前，我们自取灭亡…… 

　　本片荣获2009年华盛顿影评人协会最佳纪录片奖。

For most Americans, the ideal meal is fast, cheap, and tasty. Food, Inc. examines the costs of putting value and convenience over nutrition and environmental impact.
Director Robert Kenner explores the subject from all angles, talking to authors, advocates, farmers, and CEOs, like co-producer Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma), Gary Hirschberg (Stonyfield Farms), and Barbara Kowalcyk, who's been lobbying for more rigorous standards since E. coli claimed the life of her two-year-old son.

The filmmaker takes his camera into slaughterhouses and factory farms where chickens grow too fast to walk properly, cows eat feed pumped with toxic chemicals, and illegal immigrants risk life and limb to bring these products to market at an affordable cost. If eco-docs tends to preach to the converted, Kenner presents his findings in such an engaging fashion that Food, Inc. may well reach the very viewers who could benefit from it the most: harried workers who don't have the time or income to read every book and eat non-genetically modified produce every day.

Though he covers some of the same ground as Super Size Me and King Korn, Food Inc. presents a broader picture of the problem, and if Kenner takes an understandably tough stance on particular politicians and corporations, he's just as quick to praise those who are trying to be responsible - even Wal-Mart, which now carries organic products. That development may have more to do with economics than empathy, but the consumer still benefits, and every little bit counts.