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Food, Inc. Feeds the Brain

Documentary explores US food production

By Sarah Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 12, 2009 10:10 AM CDT

(Newser) – Food, Inc., which opens today in limited release, is a super documentary that's good for you—unlike the profit-driven food-production practices it exposes. Director Robert Kenner highlights and expands on work by authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation).

David Edelstein, New York: "The sheer scale of the movie is mind-blowing—it touches on every aspect of modern life."

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: "A big-picture vision of conglomerate duplicity and control, Food, Inc. is hard to shake because days after you've seen it, you may find yourself eating something and you'll realize that you have virtually no idea what it actually is."
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: "An essential, indelible documentary that is scarier than anything in the last five Saw horror shows."

From left, director Robert Kenner, Berkeley professor and author Michael Pollan, TV personality Ted Allen, and chef Rocco Di Spirito attend a screening of "Food, Inc." in New York on June 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

This movie still released by Magnolia Pictures shows a scene from "Food, Inc." (AP Photo/Magnolia Pictures)

TV personality and author Bethenny Frankel attends a screening of "Food, Inc." in New York on June 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

Model Lauren Bush attends a screening of "Food, Inc." in New York on June 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

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