Food, Inc.

There are several people who have been writing about the breakdown of our food supply system for a number of years. Food, Inc. includes interviews with many of them, and serves as a good summary for their arguments as well as some good demonstrative examples that help to prove their point.

As far as new information, there's not much here. Reading The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defence Of Food, and a couple others gives basically the same message with more facts. But Food, Inc. does add a visceral sense of what the results of our food system really are. A number of truly disgusting scenes in modern meat packing plants are terrifying, and very necessary. And it also finds some illustrative examples of the human cost that results when the cheapest food available is packed with corn and fat.

Unfortunately, the only solutions offered are in the form of some flashing text at the end, which feels very tacked on, and somewhat condescending given that the people who will likely choose to see this film already know the type of common sense things they throw at you. But the rest of the movie is still valuable, and worth seeing.