Continuing the investigative reporting of Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation and Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, director Robert Kenner’s Food, Inc. takes us on a journey from field to factory to plate, exhaustively exploring the complexity behind the everyday items we select in the supermarket. Building the film from individual portraits of the people involved, Kenner personalizes an issue that has seemingly become synonymous with names like Monsanto, Tyson, and Perdue. Despite the impressive prose of his predecessors, Kenner’s images of chicken farmers in Maryland or the world’s largest slaughterhouse in North Carolina shed a startling new light on the ways we eat.

Presented as part of the Depth of Field 2009-2010 Series: Adaptology: Films of Food & Drink

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